How to activate kiosk mode for a URL

[Vilson Cargnin]

Good morning!

We have the Chromebooks separated by schools and early childhood education centers.

Every 2 months, we have tests with the schools using the Chromebooks in kiosk mode directing the students to the test via a URL.

After 1 week I have to take it out of kiosk mode.

This process is manual for each school. How can I automate this process via GAM 7?

Best regards.

[Ross Scroggs]

Here's  a start.

Ross

Suppose you have Chromebook OUs

/Chromebooks/School1

/Chromebooks/School2

Add a new sub-OU to each OU with the kiosk settings

/Chromebooks/School1/Kiosk

/Chromebooks/School2/Kiosk

Enter Kiosk mode

See: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki/ChromeOS-Devices#manage-chromeos-devices

gam cros_ou /Chromebooks/School1 update ou /Chromebooks/School1/Kiosk quickcrosmove

Reboot

See: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki/ChromeOS-Devices#send-remote-commands-to-chromeos-devices

gam cros_ou /Chromebooks/School1/Kiosk issuecommand command reboot

Exit Kiosk mode

gam cros_ou /Chromebooks/School1/Kiosk update ou /Chromebooks/School1 quickcrosmove

Reboot

gam cros_ou /Chromebooks/School1 issuecommand command reboot

To do bulk operations, make a CSV file ChromeBookOUs.csv

BaseOU,KioskOU

/Chromebooks/School1,/Chromebooks/School1/Kiosk

/Chromebooks/School2,/Chromebooks/School2/Kiosk

Enter Kiosk mode

gam redirect stdout ./EnterKioskMode.txt multiprocess redirect stderr stdout csv ChromeBookOUs.csv gam cros_ou "~BaseOU" update ou "~KioskOU" quickcrosmove

Reboot

gam redirect stdout ./RebootKioskMode.txt multiprocess redirect stderr stdout csv ChromeBookOUs.csv gam cros_ou "~KioskOU" issuecommand command reboot

Exit Kiosk mode

gam redirect stdout ./ExitKioskMode.txt multiprocess redirect stderr stdout csv ChromeBookOUs.csv gam cros_ou "~KioskOU" update ou "~BaseOU" quickcrosmove

Reboot

gam redirect stdout ./RebootBaseMode.txt multiprocess redirect stderr stdout csv ChromeBookOUs.csv gam cros_ou "~BaseOU" issuecommand command reboot

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[Vilson Cargnin]

Good morning!

Thank you for your feedback. 

I understand your suggestion. 

The problem is that we have over 17,500 active Chromebooks. 

Out of those, about 10,000 are in school OUs. 

The issue would be moving the 10,000 Chromebooks to a Kiosk OU and then returning them. 

I believe that each process would take a long time.

I imagined there would be some GAM command that I could use to start kiosk mode by citing each OU of the schools, which are about 90.

Thank you in advance for your attention.

[Ross Scroggs]

Vilson,

I'm in California (GMT-7) and will be available in about two hours to discuss your requirements.

How do you put the Chromebooks in koisk mode now?

Ross

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[Ross Scroggs]

Send me a private Meet/Zoom invitation and we can discuss your options.

Ross

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[JOSE MUNOZ JR]

Good morning,

I manage a Google domain with 20000 chromebooks for a large school district and would love to help with this project.

I found it easier to run this type of tasks using a Google App Script.

Please let me know if you would like to schedule a Google meet to discuss the solution.