You may take any approach or combine them for tighter grip on information spread. Unauthorized sharing to other students will be revoked, while sharing to teachers is unrestricted.Īpproach 1 is more aggressive and easier to configure than Approach 2 and Approach 3. Even students receive shared file links from other students, Safe Doc will scrutinize the files and block them as per your configuration. Students are prohibited from sharing any files to others, because the student cannot find the Share feature anywhere in Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides etc. Safe Doc solves the Drive sharing problem in 3 ways. If you have yet to install Safe Doc, please apply for a 30 days trial. This article explains how Safe Doc chrome extension limits students' activities of sharing Google Drive files inside your organization. It causes numerous classroom management issues and information security issues.Īlthough Google added features to restrict drive sharing with outside school domains (see Set Drive users' sharing permissions), it doesn't prevent students from sharing files inside the domain. Many schools want to stop students from sharing Google Drive files with each other. Hit the DEPLOY TO RAILWAY button and follow the further instructions in the screen.Īnd many more people who aren't mentioned here, but may be found in Contributors.This article is written for Google Workspace for Education administrators.Hit the DEPLOY TO HEROKU button and follow the further instructions in the screen ( NOTE: If vars not coming, just change deploy link to your fork, Example: ).Upload token.pickle and drive_folder to your forks, or you can upload your token.pickle and drive_folder to your Index and put your token.pickle and drive_folder link to TOKEN_PICKLE_URL and DRIVE_FOLDER_URL.Add Drive name (anything that you likes), Drive id & Index url (optional) corresponding to each id.To use main Drive, you can enter 'root' in the Drive id. The bot can now search in sub-directories, so you just need to specify the teamdrives you want to use.If you are coming from last version where recursive searching was not possible, you must run driveid.py again and delete all previous content, and this time you just have to add Drives (Teamdrive or 'root' for Main Drive). Fill this with the direct link of that file. DRIVE_FOLDER_URL: (optional) Only if you want to load your drive_folder externally from an Index Link.TOKEN_PICKLE_URL: (optional) Only if you want to load your token.pickle externally from an Index Link.AUTHORIZED_CHATS: (optional) Fill user_id and chat_id (not username) of you want to authorize, Seprate them with space, Examples: -0123456789 -1122334455 6915401739.

BOT_TOKEN: The telegram bot token that you get from OWNER_ID: The Telegram user ID (not username) of the owner of the bot.

Meaning of each fields are discussed below:

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