Turn CS First on or off for users

If you're an administrator of Google accounts for an organization, you can control who uses CS First from their account. Just turn CS First on or off for those people in your Admin console.

When CS First is turned on

Users can:

• Go to  https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/login and sign in with their Google Workspace account.
• Go to  https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/dashboard and open the teacher- or student-specific pages. These pages allow users to save and view student-created projects, privately share projects between students and teachers, track progress, connect with Google Classroom, and more. For details, go to Benefits of creating a CS First Class .

When CS First is turned off

Users can:

• Open publicly available content on the  CS First homepage , all CS First curriculum , the resources page and the about page .
• Open and use the Scratch for CS First editor .

Important considerations: 

• Users are signed out of CS First and have to sign in.
• Users who sign in to  https://csfirst.withgoogle.com get an error message directing them to contact their domain administrator.
• Users not signed in to CS First can't go to  https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/dashboard and open the teacher- or student-specific pages.

• Users not signed in to CS First who open the Scratch for CS First editor can't save their work in CS First. However, users can download projects to their computer.

Control who uses CS First in your organization

1. Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.

   If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.

2. Go to Menu  Apps > Additional Google Services .

   Requires having the Service Settings administrator privilege .

3. Click CS First. 

   Tip: Scroll to see all services. Or at the left, choose a Filterto narrow the list, for example, based on status or popularity.

4. Click  Service status.

5. To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click  On for everyoneor  Off for everyone, and then click  Save.

6. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:

   1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
   2. To change the Service status, select  Onor  Off.
   3. Choose one:
      • If the Service status is set to  Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set to  Overridden, either click Inheritto revert to the same setting as its parent, or click  Saveto keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Learn more about organizational structure .
7. (Optional) To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access .

Next steps

Learn to use CS First at the CS First Help Center .