This article is for Google Workspace administrators
To let your users join another domain’s classes, or to let users from other domains join your classes, you need to change class membership settings in your Google Admin console.
Set class membership
Can my users join classes created by other user account types?If a student uses Classroom with... | And the primary teacher uses Classroom with... | Can the student join the class? |
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Google Workspace for Education or G Suite for Nonprofits |
Google Workspace for Education or G Suite for Nonprofits | Yes, if class settings in both organizations allow it. |
G Suite Basic, Business, or Google Workspace for Education Plus | G Suite Basic, Business, or Google Workspace for Education Plus | Yes, if class settings in both organizations allow it. |
Google Workspace for Education or G Suite for Nonprofits | G Suite Basic, Business, Google Workspace for Education Plus, or a personal Google Account. | No |
G Suite Basic, Business, or Google Workspace for Education Plus | Google Workspace for Education or G Suite for Nonprofits or a personal Google Account |
No |
Personal Google Account | Google Workspace for Education or G Suite Basic, Business, or Google Workspace for Education Plus | Yes, if the Google Workspace organization allows it. |
Personal Google Account | Personal Google Account | Yes |
For more information, go to Control user access to Classroom.
Allowing users to join classes from other domains allows file sharing to your domain.
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps.
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Choose an option. If your account is:
- Google Workspace for Education or G Suite for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
Classroom.
- G Suite Basic, Business, or Google Workspace for Education Plus—Click Additional Google Services
Classroom.
- Google Workspace for Education or G Suite for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
- Click Class settings
About class membership.
- Under Who can join classes in your domain, choose an option:
- Users in your domain only—Only users in your domain can join classes in your domain.
- Users in whitelisted domains—Users from domains on your allowlist can join classes in your domain. Google Workspace administrators from those domains must add your domain to their allowlist.
- Any Google Workspace user—Any Google Workspace user who has access to Classroom can join classes in your domain.
- Any user—Any Google Workspace user who has access to Classroom or personal Google Account user can join classes in your domain.
- Click Save.
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps.
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Choose an option. If your account is:
- Google Workspace for Education or G Suite for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
Classroom.
- G Suite Basic, Business, or Google Workspace for Education Plus—Click Additional Google Services
Classroom.
- Google Workspace for Education or G Suite for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
- Click Class settings
About class membership.
- Under Which classes can users in your domain join, choose an option:
- Classes in your domain only—Your domain’s users can only join classes in your domain.
- Classes in whitelisted domains—Your domain's users can join classes in a domain on your allowlist.
- Any Google Workspace class—Your domain's users can join classes in any Google Workspace domain.
- Click Save.
Use an allowlist for trusted domains
When you put a domain on an allowlist, your users can join classes in that domain and their users can join your classes. Subdomains and domain aliases aren’t included when you put a domain on your allowlist. You can only add a Google Workspace domain to your allowlist.
For the allowlist to work properly with Classroom, the Google Workspace administrators for both domains need to make changes in their Google Admin consoles. Next, they must configure Google Drive settings to allow file sharing between the domains. Learn more about how to add domains to your allowlist.
Add a domain to your allowlist-
Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps.
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Choose an option. If your account is:
- Google Workspace for Education or G Suite for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
Classroom.
- G Suite Basic, Business, or Google Workspace for Education Plus—Click Additional Google Services
Classroom.
- Google Workspace for Education or G Suite for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
- Click Class settings.
- Next to View configured whitelisted domains, click Edit
Add new.
- Enter the full address of the domain and click Add Domain To Whitelist.
Note: Changes can take up to 24 hours to take effect.
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps.
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Choose an option. If your account is:
- Google Workspace for Education or G Suite for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
Classroom.
- G Suite Basic, Business, or Google Workspace for Education Plus—Click Additional Google Services
Classroom.
- Google Workspace for Education or G Suite for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
- Click Class settings.
- Next to View configured whitelisted domains, click Edit.
- Next to the name of the domain, click Remove
Remove from Whitelist.
Grant file sharing access for domains on your allowlist
For users in external domains to join classes in your domain and turn in assignments, you must change Drive settings to allow file sharing outside of your organization. Letting your users join classes from other domains allows sharing of files to your domain.
If you change the Drive settings after users join classes, you might prevent users from completing tasks. For example, a student might be unable to turn in an assignment or a teacher might be unable to return work to a student.
To set sharing permissions:
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps
Google Workspace
Drive and Docs.
- Click Sharing settings
Sharing options.
- To apply the setting to everyone, leave the top organizational unit selected. Otherwise, select a child organizational unit or a configuration group.
- Under Sharing outside of organization, select Whitelisted Domains.
Note: This is the minimum level of sharing required. You can also choose more permissions. For details, go to Set file sharing permissions. - (Optional) Check the For files owned by users in organization, warn when sharing with users in whitelisted domains box.
- (Optional) Check the Allow users in organization to receive files from users outside of whitelisted domains box.
- Click Save.