This article is written for G Suite for Education Administrators.

Introduction

In this blog we are going to discuss how you can disable joining by phone in Google meet using xFanatical Safe Doc and why disabling this feature is essential for maintaining a safe and secure environment for both students and teachers. We will try to understand the problem in detail by talking about real life customer pain points and situations, these will help you connect with what can go wrong and how a stable and strong solution like Safe Doc can scoop in and make the problem go away.

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xFanatical Safe Doc removes Join and use a phone for audio in Google Meet

Why Disable Joining by Phone option in Google Meet for Education?

Here comes the big question why we should prevent students from joining through their mobiles phones ?Every student have a unique email id which verifies them and if they wanna do any mischief in the online class they might use the join by phone feature to their advantage by joining through an unknown account and then can disturb the whole class. This could cause a massive uproar and can put the whole class into jeopardy. 

Lets understand it better with a user example :  

Problem : Mrs Watkins, a high school teacher conducted daily online classes on Google meet for her physics lessons. One day she notices that some unknown accounts have also joined the call and are making noises and disturbing the whole class. She was not able to handle the situation on her own as she had no way to find out who these people were and how they were getting access to the meet. She eventually deduced that some students are joining through phone and are using unknown accounts to mask themselves and then they are disturbing the whole class.

Solution : Mrs Watking immediately connected with the school administration and asked help on this matter. A quick and reliable solution was chosen which was to deploy xFanatical Safe doc and disable the feature join by phone in Google meet.

Result : After the successful deployment of xFanatical Safe Doc, no student was able to join the meet with unknown accounts and disturb the ongoing class, Hence the join by phone feature was successfully disabled and was out of reach for the students.

What is a xFanatical Safe Doc?

xFanatical safe doc is a comprehensive browser extension that is used for maintaining a focused and secure online learning environment for young students. This extension provides robust tools to  administrators and teachers, so that they can easily manage and restrict access to various unwanted features of Google Workspace for Education (GWAF), ensuring a safe and productive digital learning environment can be established.

Disable Joining by Phone option in Google Meet with xFanatical Safe Doc

After the successful deployment of BlockMeetPhoneInfo policy through xFanatical Safe doc you will notice that the options like use a phone for audio and join and use phone for audio are completely removed for all student accounts and they cannot access these options to cause any type of mischief.

xFanatical Safe Doc removes the Use a phone for audio menu in Google Meet

xFanatical Safe Doc removes the Use a phone for audio menu in Google Meet

xFanatical Safe Doc removes the join and Use a phone for audio menu in Google Meet1

xFanatical Safe Doc removes the Join and use a phone for audio in Google Meet

xFanatical Safe Doc removes the Joining info in Google Meet

The Joining info in Google Meet is removed by xFanatical Safe Doc

How to Disable Joining by Phone option in Google Meet with xFanatical Safe Doc 

Step 1 : Install Safe Doc :  The first step is to install Safe doc in your Google Workspace environment.

Step 2 : Configure Safe doc settings : Once you have successfully installed Safe Doc, you can start configuring its settings in accordance to your requirements.

Step 3 : Access Google Admin Console : Now, navigate to the Google Admin Console. In the Google Admin Console, click on Devices followed by Chrome. Then, select Apps and Extensions and click on Users and Browsers.

Step 4 : Copy the required policy and paste it : 

Locate the policy that you wish to apply and copy it. The policy will display in a specific format similar to the example provided below:

"BlockMeetPhoneInfo": {

  "Value": true

}

Step 5: Save the Policy: 

After applying the policy, click the Save button to apply it.

How to configure Safe Doc?

First of all, ensure the deployment of Safe Doc on your students' Chrome browsers, and review the xFanatical Safe Doc Configuration document.

Subsequently, incorporate the BlockMeetPhoneInfo policy into your Safe Doc configuration, setting its value to true.

Conclusion

Hopefully after reading this article you have understood how and why to prevent students from joining by phone in Google meet, and maintain a productive learning environment for your students. Please follow all the steps in the correct order so as to get the desired results and if you face any problem or have any query related to this article please feel free to comment below we will connect with you as soon as possible.


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