If you are the administrator for Google Apps for Education you're probably thinking ahead about the upcoming summer break and might be wondering what you're going to do about your student accounts. If you want to pause student access to their account for the summer, the easiest way is to simply reset the password. There are a couple ways to accomplish this, if you're into command lines and enabling APIs a great resource is GAM or Google Apps Manager. You can find GAM here:
But, if you're looking for a more straight forward method you can update all user passwords at once with Bulk Uploader.
1) Login in as an Administrator of the Google Apps Domain.
2) Retrieve a CSV file of all your users by copying and pasting this link into the browser:
http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/DOMAIN.ORG/DownloadUserData/UserData-DOMAIN.ORG-20130405.csv
and replacing DOMAIN .ORG with your own Google Apps domain address. Once you have the CSV file upload it into a Google Spreadsheet. This file can be sorted or filtered if you only want to reset certain users. The final spreadsheet should only have these column headers:
By replacing the password column with one that you set. Then, click File and select Download as .csv file.
3) Go back to the Google Apps for Education Dashboard. Click the Users tab and select More actions - Bulk upload users.
Make sure you check Update existing accounts so passwords will be reset. You can also force users to reset their password after they have logged in.
There are Third Party Apps in the Marketplace that will help with some of this process. One is Flash Panel which is free and helps with user management as well as other features. Also, if you are looking for an easier way to sort, filter and manage the users, click the link for a copy of the
that I use to collect the users accounts, sort them and change the password in a click. I then download the sorted, filtered CSV tab at the bottom.
But, if you're looking for a more straight forward method you can update all user passwords at once with Bulk Uploader.
1) Login in as an Administrator of the Google Apps Domain.
2) Retrieve a CSV file of all your users by copying and pasting this link into the browser:
http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/DOMAIN.ORG/DownloadUserData/UserData-DOMAIN.ORG-20130405.csv
and replacing DOMAIN .ORG with your own Google Apps domain address. Once you have the CSV file upload it into a Google Spreadsheet. This file can be sorted or filtered if you only want to reset certain users. The final spreadsheet should only have these column headers:
Username | First Name | Last Name | Password
By replacing the password column with one that you set. Then, click File and select Download as .csv file.
Make sure you check Update existing accounts so passwords will be reset. You can also force users to reset their password after they have logged in.
There are Third Party Apps in the Marketplace that will help with some of this process. One is Flash Panel which is free and helps with user management as well as other features. Also, if you are looking for an easier way to sort, filter and manage the users, click the link for a copy of the
that I use to collect the users accounts, sort them and change the password in a click. I then download the sorted, filtered CSV tab at the bottom.
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