Chromebook Management

A ChromeOS device management license for education that enables schools to administer eligible ChromeOS devices through Google Admin. ChromeOS Education Upgrade supports centralized policy, deployment, and management functions for the school’s Chromebook fleet.

Not to be confused with: Google Workspace for Education licenses accounts and services; this upgrade licenses ChromeOS device management.

GAT Labs for Education is a suite for auditing, managing, automating, and securing Google Workspace for Education and ChromeOS. Its Chromebook capabilities give administrators a consolidated view of devices and activity, support bulk device actions, track location and usage, and apply monitoring or security policies beyond the basic inventory available in Google Admin Console.

The suite is broader than Chromebook fleet management: GAT+ covers Workspace auditing and administration, Shield adds real-time browser monitoring, filtering, alerts, and device tracking, Teacher Assist provides classroom screen controls, and Flow automates user, group, classroom, and device workflows. Districts should identify which modules are licensed because the available capabilities and privacy implications differ substantially.

LanSchool Air is Lenovo's cloud-based classroom-management platform for Chromebooks, Windows, Mac, and mixed-device classrooms. It gives teachers a live view of student screens and tools to limit websites, blank or lock screens, open a website for the class, share the teacher's screen, exchange messages, and respond to digital hand raises.

The system helps teachers manage attention and provide support during device-based instruction; it is not a full Chromebook inventory, repair, configuration, or lifecycle platform. Google Classroom, Clever, and ClassLink roster connections can reduce class setup, while district administrators manage deployment and the conditions under which monitoring is permitted.

Securly Classroom helps teachers manage student devices during instruction. Features include viewing screens and tabs, sharing web resources and controlling access to sites and applications. It supports Chromebook, Windows and macOS deployments, with a teacher browser interface. Securly Filter customer stories do not establish Classroom use.

VIZOR for Chromebooks is a K–12 device and asset-management platform that combines Chromebook data from Google Admin Console with student, staff, location, assignment, repair, warranty, and financial information. It helps districts replace disconnected spreadsheets with a current view of what devices they own, where each device is, who has it, and what condition or lifecycle state it is in.

Schools use VIZOR to distribute and return devices with barcode workflows, manage loaners and swaps, track repairs and charges, identify lost or overdue Chromebooks, automate family notifications, and perform selected Google Admin actions in bulk. The platform can also manage other district IT assets and add service-desk ticketing, depending on the edition.