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Students blocked from Sign in with Google?

School Google accounts for students under 18 can only sign in to apps the school has approved. That is Google's default for every school, not a problem with your class. Your school's Google admin can approve mytekDev in about five minutes. Send them this page.

What we ask Google forSign in only: name, email address and profile picture. Nothing from Drive, Gmail or Classroom.
Who can change itA Google Workspace admin at your school or district, in the Google Admin console.
Today, before it is approvedStudents make an account with a username and password and your class code. No email needed.

For the Google admin

Pick one of these. The first is the usual choice: it allows only mytekDev.

The app's OAuth client ID:

895117720678-mqkc9jh1lvnmvootmfnp6m82sus3jhfn.apps.googleusercontent.com

1. Allow this app (recommended)

  1. In the Google Admin console, go to Menu > Security > Access and data control > API controls. You need the Service Settings administrator privilege.
  2. Click Manage App Access, then under Configured apps click Configure new app.
  3. Paste the client ID above into the search box, click Search, and click the app in the results.
  4. Under Scope, keep the top organizational unit for everyone, or click Select org units and pick your students' units. Click Continue.
  5. Under Access to Google data, choose Limited. That is enough, because mytekDev only uses Sign in with Google. Trusted works too.
  6. Click Continue, check the summary, and click Finish. If Google asks you to confirm parental consent, read the notice and confirm.

2. Allow every app that only asks for sign-in

This lets students into any app that asks only for name, email and profile picture, without approving each one. Apps that want more, such as Drive files, still need approval.

  1. Go to Menu > Security > Access and data control > API controls and click Settings.
  2. Pick the organizational unit, if you want this for some students only.
  3. Under Unconfigured third-party apps, for users designated as under 18, choose Allow users to access third-party apps that only request basic info needed for Sign in with Google, and click Save.

3. Approve a student's request

When a student is blocked, Google usually offers them a button to ask for access. Those requests wait on the Admin console home page.

  1. On the home page, under App access control, click Review apps.
  2. Find mytekDev under Apps pending review, point to it and click Configure access.
  3. Pick the organizational units, choose the access level as in option 1, and confirm.

These steps follow Google's own help pages, "Control which third-party & internal apps access Google Workspace data" and "Manage access to unconfigured third-party apps for users designated as under 18". If a menu has moved, those pages have the current path.

For the teacher: a message to send IT

Copy this into an email or your district's help ticket.

Subject: Please allow mytekDev for Sign in with Google Hi, My students use mytekDev (mytekdev.com) in class. When they press Continue with Google, Google blocks it because the app is not configured for our students' accounts. Could you allow it in the Google Admin console? It only uses Sign in with Google (name, email and profile picture), nothing from Drive, Gmail or Classroom. Steps and the app's client ID: https://mytekdev.com/tools/google-sign-in Client ID: 895117720678-mqkc9jh1lvnmvootmfnp6m82sus3jhfn.apps.googleusercontent.com Thank you!
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Until it is approved

Students do not need Google to sign up. Two ways that work today on any school account:

Set up a free class, step by step

Common questions

What does a student see when Google blocks it?

A Google page saying the app is blocked or that they need permission, usually with a button to request access. Nothing reaches mytekDev, so we cannot show our own message until they come back to our page.

What does mytekDev get from a student's Google account?

Only what Sign in with Google gives every app: name, email address and profile picture. No Drive, Gmail, Calendar or Classroom data. For a student under 13 we keep only the number Google uses to sign them in, not the name, email or picture.

We approved it and it still says blocked.

Google says changes can take a while to reach every account. Also check that the student's organizational unit is inside the scope you picked, then have the student sign out of Google and back in.

Do we need Google Classroom, or a paid Google edition?

No. This works with the free Google Workspace for Education edition, and with or without Google Classroom.

Students are under 13. Is that allowed?

Google leaves parental consent for under-18 users to the school, where the law asks for it, as it does for any app. Under 13, mytekDev keeps no email or name from Google. Our privacy policy has the details.

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