Use your work or school Google Account on your personal Googlebook

To access your organisation's email, documents and other resources on your personal Googlebook, you can sign in to your device with your work or school Google Account. Your organisation's IT admin must allow you to sign in. Learn how to sign in to your Googlebook.

Tip: Administrators who manage Chrome on Googlebook devices for a business or school can manage work and school account access on personal Googlebooks.

Set up your work or school account

Important: To separate personal use from work or school use, you can have separate users for each purpose or if you already added your personal account to a user on the device, you can add a work or school account as another account within a device user. Learn the difference between users and accounts on Googlebook.

Device management and separate work profiles, which include badged work apps, aren't currently supported.
When you sign in with a work account, your device operates as a personal, unmanaged device. Your organisation's IT admin might block access to work resources from personal devices. If this is the case, contact your organisation's IT admin for assistance.
Some of your work or school organisation's policies still apply.

Option 1: Create a user with your work or school account

On your device, you can create a user and add your work or school account to it. You can do this when you turn on and set up your Googlebook for the first time. You can also do this once your device is already set up through device settings or the login screen if enabled by an admin user.

Open your Googlebook’s Settings app .
Select System Users Add user.
Enter your work or school credentials.

Option 2: Add a work or school account as another account within a device user

Open your Googlebook’s Settings app .
Select Accounts and backup Manage accounts Add account.
Follow the on-screen instructions.
Enter your work or school credentials.

Understand account restrictions

Your organisation's IT admin and management type determines if your work or school accounts can sign in to your personal Googlebook.

If your admin doesn't allow you to sign in to Googlebooks: You'll get this error message when you sign in: 'Device management not supported. Your domain requires device management, but it's not supported. Try using a different account.'
Accounts requiring third-party enterprise mobility management (EMM) platforms: These accounts are completely blocked from sign-in.

Understand how your organisation's policies apply

Important: During sign-in, a notification explains that the device is personal and some settings or apps managed by your organisation's IT admin might be unavailable.

Google Play Store access:
- Work accounts: You can use your account to download apps from the Google Play Store.
- School accounts: You can't use your account to download apps from the Google Play Store. To download apps from the Google Play Store, try switching to a personal Google Account.
- Neither work nor school accounts will receive managed Google Play.
Chrome browser rules: If you sign in to Chrome with your work or school account, your organisation's browser policies apply. Learn how to check if your Chrome browser is managed.

When you use your work or school account on your Googlebook, some organisational policies can change your device experience.

Remove your work or school account

If you no longer need access to your work or school resources, you can remove the account.

If you made a separate user for your work or school account, delete the user:

Open your Googlebook's Settings app .
Select System Users.
Select the user associated with your work or school account Delete user.

Tip: You can also remove all users with a factory reset of your device.

If the account is an additional account added to your user:

Open your Googlebook's Settings app .
Select Accounts and backup.
Under 'Accounts', select the account that you want to remove Remove account.
To confirm, select Remove account.

Tip: When you remove the account, it deletes all associated work or school email, files and synced data from the device. It doesn't affect any other users or signed-in accounts.

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