Chromebook Onboarding - Part 1 - Google Cloud Platform

Adding Chromebook G Suite Domain to the Mobile Guardian school dashboard

In order to manage Chromebooks through the Mobile Guardian School Dashboard, one needs to authorize the Mobile Guardian school dashboard to see Users and Chromebooks Devices under your G Suite for Education domain. This allows the dashboard to pull in the list of users and devices registered under your Google domain.

Please note that this applies to both regular G Suite Enterprise as well as G Suite for Education Domains. It is required that your Chromebooks have been provisioned with a Chrome Device Management (CDM) license or what is know as Chrome Enterprise Upgrade or Chrome Education Upgrade. for more information about this please see the article in the link below:

About ChromeOS device management

Another thing to ensure is that you have turned on the Google Cloud Platform service in the G Suite admin. If you have not already done this please see steps in below.

Turn Google Cloud on or off for users

Ready to get started

 Adding the respective JSON is a four-stage process requiring Super Administrator access to both your Google Cloud Console and G Suite Admin Console and finally uploading the JSON file into the Mobile Guardian school admin dashboard.

Part 1: The Google Cloud Console.

 Step-by-step guide

I. Login as a Super Admin user at https://console.cloud.google.com. This email address will also be referenced in the Mobile Guardian School dashboard.

II. Click on "Select Project"

III. Choose the relevant organization from the drop-down list and click "New Project" 

IV. Give your project a name that you will recognise in the future and click "Create"

 V. Once the project has successfully been created you will see a confirmation of creation on the top right.

Before you continue to the next step please ensure you are now switched to the newly created project.

VI. In the search field search for "Admin SDK API" and select the API.

VII. You will then see the following screen. Click Manage.

VIII. Once you have clicked Manage, you will see the following screen.

IX. Click on "Credentials" on the LHS Nav then click on "Credentials in APIs & Services".

X. On the expanded credentials page click on "Create Credentials" and choose "Service account" from the drop-down menu.

XI. You will now create a service account. Enter a service account name and click "Create and Continue".

XII. From the "Role" drop-down menu select "Quick Access" > "Owner" then click "Continue"

XIII. Granting users access in this step is optional, therefore, at this step, you may click "Done"

XIV. Once you have completed the service account you may now click on "Manage your credentials"

XVIII. Now you may select the actions three dots once more and click on "Manage details" 

XIX. On the next screen please click to expand "Show Advanced settings"

XX. The Google Workspace Domain-wide Delegation will be enabled by default.

XXI. Copy the Client ID

Note - Please copy and paste the Client ID to a notepad to avoid losing it

XVII. Click on the back arrow and then you may select the actions three dots and click on "Manage Keys" 

XV. You will be taken to the following screen where you need to add a key, by clicking on the " Add key" button

Once you click on the " Add key" in the drop menu click on  " Create new key "

XVI. From the Pop-up screen. Make sure JSON option is selected and Click "Create" to download the JSON file.

XVII. Once you have clicked on Create, a private key will be downloaded to your computer. Please keep this .JSON file as you will need it later to upload to your Mobile Guardian School dashboard. 

You may now proceed to click "CLOSE"

Congratulations, you have now completed part 1 involving the developer console, now you are ready to move on to Part 2.

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