Turn Read Along on or off for users

Supported editions for this feature: Education Plus. Compare your edition

This article is for Google Workspace for Education administrators. For non-Education Google Workspace accounts, go to: Turn Google Read Along on or off for users. For user accounts, go to Learn about Read Along.

As an administrator of Google Workspace accounts, you can control who uses Google Read Along from their account.

Google Read Along is now a Google Workspace service. If it is not turned on for your domain already, you can turn it on in the Google Admin console by following the steps below.

Control who uses Google Read Along in your organization

Before you begin: To turn a service on or off for certain users, put their accounts in an organizational unit (to control access by department) or add them to an access group (to allow access for users across or within departments).

1. Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.

   If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.

2. Go to Menu  Apps > Google Workspace > Service status.

   Requires having the Service Settings administrator privilege.

3. Click Read Along.

   Tip: Scroll to see all services. Or at the left, choose a Filter to narrow the list, for example, based on status or popularity.

4. Click Service status.

5. To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.

6. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:

   1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
   2. To change the Service status, select On or Off.
   3. Choose one:
      • If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Note: Learn more about organizational structure.
7. (Optional) To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access.

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