Installing the Securly Classroom Extension through Google Admin

Securly Classroom runs as a Chrome extension when students log in with their school-issued email. You will need to use Google Admin console to configure the extension to automatically install for all students.

These instructions will walk you through the process of creating the extension entry just once, at the root of your domain. This will make it easy to choose multiple OUs later where you want to configure the extension to force install. This is useful if you need to set it to run on multiple OUs that are all sub-OUs under a single higher level OU. However, you may also choose to select a lower-level OU for setting up the extension initially.

Go to the Settings menu and click on the Google sub-menu. The App ID and URL for the Chrome extension will be shown under the Securly Classroom Extension section. You can click the “Copy” links to easily copy these values to your clipboard.

In another tab or window, go to your Google Admin console. Go to your Google Admin console. Choose Devices from the left hand menu. Under that menu, select Chrome, Apps & extensions, then Users & browsers.

With your root OU selected, define the extension. In a later step we will choose which OUs we want to select for force-installation of the app. Alternately, you can choose the sub-OU now, but keep in mind that you may have to do this for multiple OUs if they are not all sub-OUs of a higher level one.

Click the + button in the lower right corner, then select the Add Chrome app or extension by ID button.

Copy and paste the Extension ID from Device Console. Choose the option From a custom URL, then copy and paste the URL from Device Console. Click Save.

The extension should now appear in the list with its installation policy set to "Allow install".

Now that the extension is defined, we can choose each OU where we want it to run for students and simply change it to "Force install" for each one. Navigate your organization's OU structure on the left to find the OU where you want to force install the extension. Usually this will be the highest level OU that contains your student accounts.

Now that you've selected the student OU, find the extension from the list and change the setting from "Allow install" to "Force install + pin".

The OU is now configured to force load the extension for all users who login with IDs in the configured OU or lower.