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 user accesses Classroom with: | And the primary teacher accesses Classroom with: | Can the user join the class? |
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Yes, if class settings in both organizations allow it. |
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Yes, if class settings in both organizations allow it. |
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No |
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No |
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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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In the Admin console, go to Menu
Apps.
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Choose an option. If your account is:
- Google Workspace for Education or Workspace for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
Classroom.
- Workspace Basic, Business, or Google Workspace for Education Plus—Click Additional Google Services
- Google Workspace for Education or Workspace for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
- Click Class settings
- 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 allowlisted 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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In the Admin console, go to Menu
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Choose an option. If your account is:
- Google Workspace for Education or Workspace for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
- Workspace Basic, Business, or Google Workspace for Education Plus—Click Additional Google Services
- Google Workspace for Education or Workspace for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
- Click Class settings
- 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 allowlisted 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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In the Admin console, go to Menu
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Choose an option. If your account is:
- Google Workspace for Education or Workspace for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
- Workspace Basic, Business, or Google Workspace for Education Plus—Click Additional Google Services
- Google Workspace for Education or Workspace for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
- Click Class settings.
- Next to View configured allowlisted domains, click Edit
- Enter the full address of the domain and click Add Domain To Allowlist.
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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In the Admin console, go to Menu
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Choose an option. If your account is:
- Google Workspace for Education or Workspace for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
- Workspace Basic, Business, or Google Workspace for Education Plus—Click Additional Google Services
- Google Workspace for Education or Workspace for Nonprofits—Click Google Workspace
- Click Class settings.
- Next to View configured allowlisted domains, click Edit.
- Next to the name of the domain, click Remove
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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In the Admin console, go to Menu
- Click Sharing settings
- (Optional) To apply the setting only to some users, at the side, select an organizational unit (often used for departments) or configuration group (advanced). Show me how
Group settings override organizational units. Learn more
- Under Sharing outside of organization, select Allowlisted 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 allowlisted domains box.
- (Optional) Check the Allow users in organization to receive files from users outside of allowlisted domains box.
- Click Save.