Hide Google Drive features

SUMMARY

The purpose of this app is to allow managed students the ability to use the Google Suite Office Productivity tools while providing protection from possibly objectionable internet data content.

This app offers this protection by providing a set of options that would allow limiting the following: internet image searches and insertions, access to internet research text, and internet video searches and insertions. Additional options include: not allowing sharing, blocking insertion of comments, blocking form submissions and blocking feeds within Google Sheets.

Administrators may choose to either use the app with a config file to control what is blocked, or install the app with no config file - and all options will then be set to ‘blocked’. If using the config file, (see code at the bottom to be added to the extension policy) administrators will select ‘true’ for all options where blocking is desired. Anything not set to ‘true’ will default to ‘false’ (or ‘no blocking’).

Below is the list of discrete functions that may be blocked.

There are 11 items that this extension blocks

disableImageWebSearch - Hide image web search
disableImageAddByURL - Prevent inserting images by URL (Requires disableImageWebSearch to be active)
disableVideoWebSearch - Hide video web search
disableExplore - Hide the explore/research pane
disableSharing - Hide sharing functions
disableLinks - Prevent creating links
disableDictionary - Prevent dictionary from being used
disableComments - Prevent comments from being created and viewed
disableFormsPublishing - Prevent forms from being published/sent
disableGames - Hide playable games from Google Search results
disableSheetsExternalRequests - Disables functions IMPORTDATA, IMPORTFEED, IMPORTHTML, IMPORTRANGE, IMPORTXML in Sheets

Config File Installation:

Below is the JSON code to insert in the APP policy for extensions (must set value to true for those blocking options that are desired):

{
"disableImageWebSearch": {
"Value": true
},
"disableImageAddbyURL": {
"Value": true
},
"disableVideoWebSearch": {
"Value": true
},
"disableExplore": {
"Value": true
},
"disableSharing": {
"Value": false
},
"disableLinks": {
"Value": true
},
"disableDictionary": {
"Value": false
},
"disableComments": {
"Value": true
},
"disableFormsPublishing": {
"Value": false
},
"disableGames": {
"Value": true
},
"disableSheetsExternalRequests": {
"Value": false
}
}

Feel free to email aefriedman@ytcte.org for support

This was developed by Matúš Koprda of https://blade.sk for Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes.

The latest version of Hide Google Drive features is available on the Chrome web and is currently being used by 2,000 active users. The initial version was launched on 2020-05-26.

HOW TO INSTALL Hide Google Drive features FROM A CRX FILE

1. Download Hide Google Drive features CRX file
2. NOTE: Sometimes the browser may block downloading / installing CRX file from outside the Chrome Web Store. If so, you may need to download the ZIP file instead
3. In the URL bar, go to chrome://extensions
4. Enable Developer mode

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