Turn Google Colab on or off for users

As an administrator of your organization's Google Accounts, you can control who uses Google Colab. Just turn the service on or off for those users in your Admin console. Users who have Google Colab turned on can access Colab notebooks, connect to Colab runtimes, and use Colab to write and execute Python code in their browser. Users whose service is off can't access Colab.

If you purchased Colab Pro or Colab Pro+ and you already turned on Colab, your users automatically receive the enhanced functionality when you assign them a Colab Pro or Colab Pro+ license. Otherwise, you can turn on the service or change who receives the service.

Control who uses Colab 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 Colab.
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 .

Learn more about Colab .