Assignments log events

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

As your organization's administrator, you can use the security investigation tool to run searches related to Assignments log events, and to take action based on search results. For example, you can:  

  • Review common activities, such as whether a student has joined a course or submitted course work.
  • Troubleshoot common user scenarios.

Run a search for Assignments log events

Your ability to run a search depends on your Google edition, your administrative privileges, and the data source. You can run a search on all users, regardless of their Google Workspace edition.

To run a search in the security investigation tool, first choose a data source. Then, choose one or more conditions for your search. For each condition, choose an attribute, an operator, and a value

  1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

    Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).

  2. In the Admin console, go to Menu and then Securityand thenSecurity centerand thenInvestigation tool.
  3. Click Data source and select Assignments log events.
  4. Click Add Condition.
    Tip: You can include one or more conditions in your search or customize your search with nested queries. For details, go to Customize your search with nested queries.
  5. Click Attributeand thenselect an option.
    For a complete list of attributes, go to the Attribute descriptions section (later on this page).
  6. Select an operator.
  7. Enter a value or select a value from the list.
  8. (Optional) To add more search conditions, repeat steps 4–7.
  9. Click Search.
    You can review the search results from the investigation tool in a table at the bottom of the page.
  10. (Optional) To save your investigation, click Save and thenenter a title and descriptionand thenclick Save.

Notes

  • In the Condition builder tab, filters are represented as conditions with AND/OR operators. You can also use the Filter tab to include simple parameter and value pairs to filter the search results.
  • If you gave a user a new name, you will not see query results with the user's old name. For example, if you rename [email protected] to [email protected], you will not see results for events related to [email protected].

Attribute descriptions

For this data source, you can use the following attributes when searching log event data:

Attribute Description
Actor Email address of the user who performed the action—for example, the user who created the class, or the user who published an announcement
Actor group name

Group name of the actor. For more information, go to Filtering results by Google Group.

To add a group to your filtering groups allowlist:

  1. Select Actor group name.
  2. Click Filtering groups.
    The Filtering groups page displays.
  3. Click Add Groups.
  4. Search for a group by entering the first few characters of its name or email address. When you see the group you want, select it.
  5. (Optional) To add another group, search for and select the group.
  6. When you finish selecting groups, click Add.
  7. (Optional) To remove a group, click Remove group .
  8. Click Save.
Actor organizational unit Organizational unit of the actor
Course ID Unique identifier for a class
Course name Name of the class
Course role Whether a user is a student or teacher in a class
Course work title Title of the class work
Course work type Type of class work, such as Assignment or Question
Date Date and time of the event (displayed in your browser's default time zone)
Event The logged event action, such as Course work published or User joined course
Has grade Whether or not a submission has a grade
Impacted users List of impacted email addresses
IP address The IP address used to sign in. Usually the address is the user's physical location. It can also be a proxy server or a Virtual Private Network (VPN) address.
Is late Whether or not a submission is late
Post ID Unique identifier for a piece of class work
Submission state Submission state of a class work—for example, Created, Turned in, Returned, Reclaimed by student, or Student edited after turn-in

Filter data by course events

To see data related to course membership, course events, or course work, filter by event and then select an event value.

  1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

    Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).

  2. In the Admin console, go to Menu and then Securityand thenSecurity centerand thenInvestigation tool.
  3. Click Data sourceand thenselect Assignments log events.
  4. Click Add Condition.
  5. Click Attributeand thenselect Event.
  6. Select an operator.
  7. Enter a value
  8. Click Search.
    You can review the search results from the investigation tool in a table at the bottom of the page.
Create activity rules & set up alerts
  • You can set up alerts based on log event data using reporting rules. For instructions, see Create and manage reporting rules.
  • Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus; Cloud Identity Premium. Compare your edition

    To help prevent, detect, and remediate security issues efficiently, you can automate actions in the security investigation tool and set up alerts by creating activity rules. To set up a rule, set up conditions for the rule, and then specify what actions to perform when the conditions are met. For details and instructions, see Create and manage activity rules.

Take action based on search results

Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus; Cloud Identity Premium. Compare your edition

After you run a search in the security investigation tool, you can act on your search results. For example, you can run a search based on Gmail log events and then use the tool to delete specific messages, send messages to quarantine, or send messages to users' inboxes. For more details, go to Take action based on search results.

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