Setting up Aware in your school's Google workspace

Follow the steps below to setup Aware in your org’s Google workspace:

After logging in to Aware for the first time, you can access the setup wizard by clicking on Activities from the left sidebar. Click on the Setup Aware button to proceed.
Select Google Drive and click on Next in the sidebar window to begin the Google Drive configuration.
Enter a recipient’s email address for Drive/Doc alerts and click on Next.
Enable the Google Drive SDK API and authorize data access. Refer to the video in the popup for the steps or follow the 'Configuring Google Drive Scanning' section of this guide. Once you are done, check the 'I have enabled Drive SDK API' and click on Next.
Click Import OUs and sign in with your school’s Google Super Admin account or Azure active directory account.
Select all of the OUs that you wish Securly Aware to scan (ideally, just student OUs) and click on Save and finish button to complete the setup process for Google Drive.
Click on Configure Gmail, designate a recipient for Gmail alerts, and add the Securly Aware host and route to Google Admin console. Refer to the 'Configuring Gmail scanning' section of this guide for more details.
Enter a test student user to test the Aware configuration.

Click here for a quick video walkthrough of the setup process.

Note

Known issue for dual-provisioned schools: If you are a dual-provisioned (using both Microsoft Azure and Google OUs) Securly Aware and Filter user, you might see flagged activities in Activities Feed display blank or missing OU data and consequently fail to generate student cases in Aware. This is a known issue that our team is actively working to resolve and affects OUs that are assigned the Base Default policy in Securly Filter. However, you can easily resolve this by moving the OUs from the Default policy to a Custom Policy (you can simply mirror your Default Policy settings so filtering remains the same).