This article is for administrators. For help managing your own files, go to the Learning Center.
As an administrator, you can turn Google Sites on or off for people in your organization. By default, Sites is turned on for your organization.
To use Sites in your organization...
Make sure that Sites and Google Drive are turned on for the users who you want to use Sites. For instructions, go to:
- View which apps are turned on for a user, group, or organizational unit
- Turn Drive on for users
- Turn Sites on for users (see below for details)
If you turn Sites off...
No one in your organization can create, view, or access Google Sites.
Control who uses Sites 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).
-
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.
-
Go to Menu
Apps > Google Workspace > Sites.
Requires having the Service Settings administrator privilege.
- To turn Sites on or off:
- Click Service status.
- Select On for everyone or Off for everyone and click Save.
- To control who can create and edit new sites:
- Click New Sites.
- Click Site creation and editing.
By default, Users can edit sites and Allow users to create new sites are enabled.
- Make sure that these settings are enabled for the organizational units you want them enabled for.
- (Optional) For the organizational units you don’t want creating or editing in Sites, turn off these settings and click Save.
