Command admission to Google services by historic period

This characteristic is only available to Google Workspace for Teaching editions.

To arrive easier to tailor experiences for your users, you can set admission to some Google services based on age. The default age-based access setting depends on your institution type:

  • Primary and secondary didactics institutions—All users non designated as eighteen and over become an age-restricted feel for some Google services.
  • Higher education institutions—Users not designated as nether the age of 18 have no additional restrictions for Google services. Still, administrators in those organizations are required to place whatsoever users under the age of 18.

Understand the default settings

As an administrator, y'all should place users in your organization who are 18 years of age and older. If you don't:

  • All users in primary and secondary institutions who are not designated equally over 18 default to under eighteen and get a restricted experience in some Google services.
  • Users under the age of 18 lose access to sure services. Data created in Additional Services that users designated as under 18 no longer accept admission to is deleted. Users can export their information earlier it is deleted past using Google Takeout for services where the admin fix Google Takeout to ON. Larn more nearly turning on Google Takeout.
  • Services without an on or off command are set toRestricted for users who aren't designated as over 18. Yous can't alter this setting for those users. For details, get to Manage access to services that aren't controlled individually.

The age-based access setting applies to the top-level organization. However, y'all tin can identify users, such as teachers and staff, as over or nether the age of 18 by putting them in an organizational unit or access group and setting the correct historic period level. For details, go to Customize the setting for your system (below).

App restrictions for users under 18

Users under the age of 18 have restrictions in some Google services when they're signed in to their Google Workspace for Instruction account. Besides, some services aren't available to users under the age of 18.

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YouTube

If you turn on YouTube, you can restrict which YouTube videos are viewable past signed-in users in your arrangement and on your network using YouTube's Restricted Manner settings. For details, get to Manage your organization's YouTube settings.

Also, here are some features that are unavailable to users in main and secondary institutions who are under the age of 18:

  • Create channels, playlists, stories, shorts, or upload videos
  • Watch or create live stream events
  • Run into or post comments
  • Participate in live conversation
  • Buy channel memberships, creator trade, movies and Tv shows, Super Chat and Super Stickers, or participate in YouTube Giving fundraisers
  • Use apps, including YouTube Get, YouTube Music, YouTube Studio, YouTube Television set, and YouTube VR
  • Access other features, including:
    • Receive virtually notifications
    • Cast on TV
    • Connect game accounts
    • Use Incognito style
    • Become personalized ads
    • Turn Restricted Manner on or off
  • Filter video results (past upload date, for example)

Google Search

Google Play

If y'all turn on Google Play, Google Workspace for Instruction users under the historic period of 18:

  • Can only see content rated Everyone, Everyone 10+, or Teen. For details, go to Apps & Games content ratings on Google Play.
  • Can't purchase any Google Play content from the Apps & Games, Movies & Tv set, and Books categories.
  • Tin't read or heed to sexually explicit books for Books on Google Play. Yet, users might see explicit books when searching or accessing them using a direct link to the content's folio.

Google Maps and Google Earth

If you plough on Google Maps and Google Earth, Google Workspace for Teaching users under the historic period of eighteen tin can't:

  • Access features that require payments
  • Create public posts, such every bit comments and reviews
  • Participate in Local Guides
  • Plough on Location History for their Google Workspace for Didactics business relationship
  • Access Google Maps Timeline
  • Share their location

Google Photos

If yous turn on Google Photos, Google Workspace for Education users nether the age of 18 can't:

  • Come across prompts for paid features.
  • Utilise partner sharing. For details, go to Set up up partner sharing.

Services not available to users under 18

Services with On or Off controls

Fifty-fifty though these apps take On or Off controls in the Google Admin console, Google Workspace for Pedagogy users under the historic period of xviii will be restricted from using these services with their Google Workspace for Teaching accounts, regardless of the setting:

  • Blogger
  • Brand Accounts
  • Entrada Manager
  • Doubleclick Studio
  • Google Advertizement Manager
  • Google Ads
  • Google AdSense
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Google Pay
  • Google Play Console
  • Google Public Data Explorer
  • Location History
  • Merchant Center
  • Partner Dash
  • Play Books Partner Center
  • Search Ads 360

Services without On or Off controls

For all Google Workspace for Education users whom administrators indicate as nether xviii can't admission Google services that don't have an individual On or Off control using their Google Workspace for Education business relationship. Administrators tin but turn on services that have a specific On or Off command for those users.

Related topics

  • Services with individual On or Off controls
  • Manage access to services that aren't controlled individually
  • Google Workspace for Education Core and Additional services

Customize the setting for your organization

You can motion users to an organizational unit or admission group and utilise age-based settings. For more details, go to Configuration groups for use by admins.

If you use organizational units or access groups:

  • Modify the setting of any staff, instructor, and kinesthesia organizational unit of measurement or configuration grouping to be 18 or older. Be sure that all users in the organizational unit or grouping are 18 years of age or older.
  • Motility any users under the age of 18 in your staff, instructor, or faculty organizational units or access groups to another organizational unit or group and apply the appropriate age-level setting.
  • For higher teaching institutions, if you have users under the age of 18, you lot must add together them to an organizational unit or group and utilize the appropriate age-level setting.

Note: If you delete a user, you also delete the data regarding the age-based admission setting for their account.

Set historic period-based access to Google services

You tin designate your users' age level in the Admin panel. If you don't, all users without an historic period designation get the default feel for your institution blazon. You tin can alter the designation to reverberate the accurate historic period of the user, if the default does non match.

Before y'all begin: To be certain that your institution gets the right default historic period designation, check that you gear up the correct arrangement type in your Google Admin panel. For details, go to Select your organisation blazon for Google Workspace for Education.

To prepare age-based admission:

  2. From the Admin console Home page, click Account settings and then Historic period-based access settings.

  4. For Choose an appropriate age characterization, choose an option:

    • Some or all users are nether 18 years of age

    • All users are 18 or older

  5. Click Save. If yous configured an organizational unit or group, yous might be able to Inherit or Override a parent organizational unit, or Unset a group.

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