Deploy Live Classroom Captions to your school

Student devices: force install + student policy

1. Sign in to the Google Admin console at admin.google.com.
2. Go to Devices → Chrome → Apps & extensions → Users & browsers.
3. On the left, select the organizational unit (OU) that holds your students.
4. Click the + button (lower right) and choose Add Chrome app or extension by ID.
5. Paste the extension ID below and add it; leave the source as the Chrome Web Store.
6. Set Installation policy to Force install (or "Force install + pin to toolbar").
7. With the extension selected, find the Policy for extensions box and paste the JSON below.
8. Click Save.

Teacher devices: force install, no student policy

1. Same path: Devices → Chrome → Apps & extensions → Users & browsers.
2. Select the organizational unit that holds your teachers.
3. Add the same extension by ID (it's fine to add it to both OUs).
4. Set Installation policy to Force install.
5. Leave Policy for extensions empty, or paste { "role": "teacher" } to be explicit.
6. Click Save.

What the policy does (and doesn't)

• { "role": "student" } only changes which view opens. Students get the caption view and never see the teacher's start or record controls.
• It does not connect a student to a class. Each student still pastes their teacher's join code once (teachers share those in Google Classroom or Canvas). Schedules differ student to student, so this stays manual by design.
• No student names, lists, or IDs are stored by the extension or the policy.
• The only policy key is role. Valid values are student and teacher. No policy, or any other value, opens the teacher view.

Good to know

• The extension exposes this through Chrome's standard managed-storage schema, so role shows up as a normal managed extension policy.
• Button labels in the Admin console shift a little between versions. If a label here doesn't match, Google's support article "Set Chrome app and extension policies" covers the current UI.
• Policy can take a little while to reach devices. To confirm on a test device, open chrome://policy and click Reload policies; the extension's role value should appear.