Introduction
This blog explains why and how to block Stock and Web in Google Slides. Stock and Web option allows to add images from web in presentations to make more creative. But in schools, students misuse the feature by spending more time on exploring images and adding non-educational images sometimes. To maintain a safe, appropriate and distraction-free environment in educational settings, educators have to block the Stock and Web option in Google Slides. This blog will explore how Safe Doc can help administrators to remove such image options from the Insert Image menu in Google Slides.
xFanatical Safe Doc removes the Insert > Image > Stock & web menu in Google Slide
Why Block Stock and Web in Google Slides for Education?
In a classroom settings, maintaining focus is essential to deliver an effective learning. In Google Slides, the option to insert images directly from Stock and Web sources can lead to students using unrelated, inappropriate images in their presentations instead of focusing on academic content.
Let’s understand the scenario through a user story:
- Problem: Teacher Eliza, assigned a history project to her students using Google Slides. While students working on their project they found stock and web option and started exploring images. Some students added irrelevant images to presentation harming the educational ethics. In some cases, students searched for inappropriate content, violating school guidelines and causing disciplinary concerns.
- Solution: To address the problem, Eliza decided to integrate Safe Doc and implement policy to block stock and web image option in Google Slides. The Safe Doc extension. This ensured that students could only upload teacher-approved images or use content stored in their Google Drive, which helped them stay focused on the learning material.
- Result: After removing the stock and web options, students researched well on relevant images to include in presentation. With Safe Doc policy class time became more productive and presentations aligned better with the curriculum. Teacher Eliza noted a decrease in disruptive behavior during project work.
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What is a xFanatical Safe Doc?
xFanatical Safe Doc is a web browser extension that is used for maintaining a focused and secure online learning environment for Google Workspace admins and users. Safe Doc provides various policies to maintain discipline and security within the classroom. It offers policies to block YouTube video search in Google Workspace, remove controls in YouTube embed videos and block YouTube in Google Search.
Block Stock and Web in Google Slides with xFanatical Safe Doc
Google Slides provides option to insert images by uploading from their computer or searching the web and stock images. but students often get distracted searching for funny or irrelevant images from the web or stock collection and even add inappropriate them in slides. At this point Safe Doc becomes useful. By implementing the BlockStockAndWeb policy, you can block the Stock and Web image options in Google Slides. Once this policy is set to true, students will no longer be able to access stock and web options when adding images to their slides.
This promotes a more focused classroom experience, reduces distractions caused by irrelevant or inappropriate imagery, and helps educators maintain a productive and respectful learning atmosphere.
xFanatical Safe Doc removes the Insert > Image > Stock & web menu in Google Slide
xFanatical Safe Doc removes the Google images dropdown menu in Google Slide
xFanatical Safe Doc removes the Stock and web icon button from the right navigation bar in Google Slide
How to Block Stock and Web in Google Slides using xFanatical Safe Doc
Step 1: Install xFanatical Safe Doc
The initial steps is to install xFanatical Safe Doc in your Google Workspace environment. Safe Doc is a browser extension that offers policies to manage Google workspace apps.
Step 2: Configure Safe Doc settings
Once after you install Safe Doc, configure its settings to disable the video previews in Google Drive.
Step 3: Access Google Admin Console
Next, go to the Google Admin Console. In the Google Admin Console, click Devices > Chrome > Apps & Extensions and click Users & Browsers to view list of policies.
Step 4: Apply the policy
Find the policy that you want to apply and if not found add as you see below format:
"BlockStockAndWeb": {
"Value": true
}
Step 5: Save the policy
Finally, after applying the policy, click Save.
How to configure Safe Doc?
Once after you configure Safe Doc, make sure you have deployed Safe Doc on your students' Chrome browsers and review the xFanatical Safe Doc Configuration document for detailed instructions.
Conclusion
In conclusion, blocking the Stock and Web image options in Google Slides is an important step towards creating a more focused and distraction-free learning environment. Hopefully after reading the article you have successfully understood how you can use xFanatical safe doc to disables stock and web option in Google Slides. For successful implementation, please follow all the steps mentioned in this article.
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