The Drive SDK API in the Google Workspace admin console allows third-party applications to work on files stored on Google Drive. This authorization is essential to help Securly access the Google Docs on the school’s Google Drive and is a crucial step in enabling Aware for your school.

To enable the Drive SDK API:

Log in to admin.google.com
Navigate to Apps > Google Workspace > Settings for Drive and Docs > Features and Applications
Scroll down to Drive SDK and click on the edit button.
Verify if the checkbox is selected. If not, select the checkbox for Drive SDK to enable access to files on Google Drive.
Click on ‘Save’ to save the settings

Along with enabling Drive SDK API, it is also essential that you provide Securly access to the relevant school Google Drive data. This will allow Aware to begin scanning Google Docs for sentiment analysis or identify images with nudity on Google Drive. Without this access, your Aware setup would be incomplete.

To authorize Google Drive data access:

Log in to admin.google.com
Navigate to Security >Access and data control > API controls and scroll down to the Domain-wide delegation.
Click Manage Domain Wide Delegation and on the next page click Add new.
In the ‘Client Id’ field input the following: 107250024911550132389
In the ‘OAuth scopes’ field input the following comma-separated URL string:

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.appdata,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.user

To authorize scanning of Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Sheets, include the following scopes in addition to the ones mentioned above.

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/documents.readonly

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/presentations.readonly

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets.readonly

If you want to be able to use the quarantine feature, add the following URL strings as well:

Note: Adding these URLs does not automatically enable quarantine. It still has to be turned on from the account settings in Aware.

https://mail.google.com/,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.compose,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.insert,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.labels

6. Click ‘Authorize’.

Note that it may take up to 24 hours to establish the necessary connections with Google and your setup might, therefore, take up to 24 hours to complete. If you wish to test if any Google Docs are being flagged, please wait 24 hours to avoid getting an error.

Please note Aware only scans documents that are edited or created once Aware has been activated. Aware will not retroactivately scan old documents or images.

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