This article is for administrators.
As a Google Workspace administrator, you can set up Classroom add-ons so teachers can share engaging activities and content with students. Add-ons can be attached to assignments, quiz assignments, questions, materials, or announcements.
What you need to use add-ons in Classroom
- You must be using Google Workspace for Education Plus or the Teaching and Learning upgrade.
- Add-on attachments can only be created and assigned on the web version of Classroom. Some third parties also allow add-on attachment creation from their website.
- Add-on attachment can be viewed, completed, and graded on both the web and mobile versions of Classroom.
Set up an add-on
There are several ways for teachers to interact with an add-on. They can:
- Launch the add-on application from within Classroom
- Upgrade pasted links to add-on attachments
- Create add-on attachments from third-party websites
There are three ways for administrators to let users access add-ons:
- Admin install: Install an add-on for teachers within a group, organizational unit (OU), or domain.
- This is the recommended option, as it enables all interactions for teachers within the group, OU, or domain without any further action or configurations.
- Important: Only an admin can install some add-ons.
- This is the recommended option, as it enables all interactions for teachers within the group, OU, or domain without any further action or configurations.
- Allowlist: Allow teachers to individually install add-ons
- This option authorizes all teachers to create add-on attachments from authorized third-party websites. Teachers must then install the add-on themselves to enable other interactions.
- Configure API controls: Lets teachers attach add-ons from third-party websites only.
- Important: The add-on application must still be installed with the admin install or allowlist options to enable the launch in Classroom and upgrade pasted links.
From a browser:
- Go to Google Workspace Marketplace.
- At the top, select the “Works with” filter.
- Check the box next to Classroom.
- Click Done. Available Classroom add-ons are displayed.
- Click the add-on you want to install
Install.
Install.From the Admin console:
- Sign in to your Google Admin console.
- Click Apps
- Click Install app.
- At the top, select the “Works with” filter.
- Check the box next to Classroom.
- Click Done. Available Classroom add-ons are displayed.
- Click the add-on you want to install
Once an add-on is installed, it becomes available for teachers to use with assignments, quiz assignments, questions, materials, or announcements.
Allowlist a Classroom add-on
To manage your allowlist:
- Sign in to your Google Admin console.
- Click Apps
- At the top, click Allowlist App.
- Select add-ons you want to add to your allowlist.
- To change your allowlist settings, under "Apps list," click Settings.
Once an add-on is allowlisted, unless the Admin Console setting is “Don’t allow users to install and run apps from the Marketplace,” teachers can create an assignment and install add-ons individually.
To configure API controls:
- On your computer, sign in to your Google Admin console.
- Click Security
- Click Add app
- In the search box, enter the name of a third-party application and click Search.
- Next to the app name, click Select.
- Select all of the OAuth Client IDs that appear and click Select.
- Tip: One application may be associated with several client IDs.
- Select the organizational units that you want to configure and click Continue.
- Select Trusted and click Continue
- To change configurations, select one or more IDs and click Change access.
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As a reminder, you are responsible for getting parental consent, where required, for the use of third-party applications.
FAQs
Some Classroom add-ons require a subscription to access some or all of the content. Access to different add-ons varies by product.
To learn more about the requirements for an add-on, or to get support with using an add-on, find the add-on in Google Workspace Marketplace.