Verify teachers and set permissions

Google administrators can verify teachers in different ways. The first step is to ensure that the Groups for Business service is on for everyone.

1. Your current account, , might not have permission to do these steps. To continue,make sure you're signed in to an administrator account.
2. In the Admin console, go to Menu Apps.
3. Click Google Workspace.
4. Click Groups for Business.
5. At the top right, click Edit Service.
6. Select On for everyone to turn on the service.

   Tip: If "Groups for Business" is turned off, teachers can't be added to the Classroom Teachers group.

7. Click Save.

To verify teachers manually on a computer:

1. In a browser window, open the Classroom Teachers group.
2. Under “People,” click Pending members.
3. Next to the user’s name, check the box.
4. On the right, click Approve applicant or Reject applicant .

Important: Be careful when you approve teacher accounts, so that you do not accidentally approve student accounts. To automate verifying teachers:

To populate the Classroom Teachers group directly, admins can use Google APIs. Some admins may choose to use Google Apps Manager (GAM). GAM is a command-line tool for admins to manage Google Workspace domains and to automate the teacher verification process.

You can add groups to the Classroom Teachers group if you:

• Use Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) or any other tool to sync groups
• Already have a group that contains all the teachers or staff in your domain

Important: If you use GCDS, you should manually exclude the Classroom Teachers Google group from any synchronizations. For details, check instructions about Google Cloud Directory Sync.

These options eliminate the need to manually approve or add members to the Classroom Teachers group.

Important: To ensure that teachers can continue to use Classroom, don't remove the Classroom Teachers group. The group is automatically re-created, but it's empty. As a result, users must identify themselves again and you must reverify the teachers.

1. Your current account, , might not have permission to do these steps below. To continue, make sure you sign in to an administrator account. Learn how to sign in to the Admin console.
2. On your computer, select an option:
   • Click Apps Google Workspace Classroom.
   • Click Apps Additional Google services Classroom.
3. Go to General settings.
4. Click Teacher permissions.
5. Point to "Teacher permissions" and click Edit .
6. Choose an option:
   • Anyone in this domain (teachers and students)
   • All pending and verified teachers
   • Verified teachers only
7. Click Save.

• Turn a service on or off for Google Workspace users
• Control access to Google services by age