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Pushing Out Settings For The OrbitNote Extension.

This article will walk you through how a Google Admin can change the extension settings for some or all users on their domain for the OrbitNote extension. The settings are: Open Web PDFs, Open Classroom PDFs Directly, and Brightspace/D2L integration enabled

  • Login to the Google Admin Console with your G Suite for Education domain administrator account.

  • In the left-side menu, select Devices -> Chrome -> Apps & extensions -> Users & browsers

Image showing menu navigation in the Admin Console

  • Navigate to the appropriate OU then locate and select the OrbitNote entry

Image of OrbitNote entry

  • On the right side of that page you will be able to add a policy for that extension. 

Image showing location of Policy for extensions

  • Paste the following text in that location. For any setting you would like turned off, change “true” to “false”.

{

       "classroomOpenWith": {

        "Value": true

    },

       "defaultOpenWebPagePDF": {

        "Value": true

    },

       "brightspaceIntegrationEnabled": {

        "Value": true

    }

}

  • It should look like this:

screenshot of json policy in google admin

  • Then click "SAVE" in the top right of the screen

*Note: If the extension options are managed by an Admin policy, individual users will be restricted from changing their extension options.*

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