Absolute for Chromebooks

Enhance the Google Admin Console

Absolute enhances the Google Admin Console, extending its capabilities with comprehensive intelligence and control. Everything you need is at your fingertips.

Highlights

Extended insights into device health

Detailed user behavior metrics

Ability to monitor and control Chromebook devices from a single console, on- or off-network

Manage your Chrome, Windows, and Mac devices from a single console

While the Google Admin Console provides basic device management, there's limited capability to track missing devices, measure student device use, or measure the adoption of learning technology tools. With Absolute, you can see and control every machine — Chromebooks, Windows, or Macs — from a single, cloud-based console, even when they’re off-network. Boost productivity and gain deeper insights with streamlined workflows and customizable reporting across your entire deployment.

Know the whereabouts of your devices and minimize loss

With Absolute, you’ll always know where your Chromebook devices are — even off-network — so you can streamline device collection with ease. Minimize loss with the ability to locate and freeze any device remotely from the Absolute Console — or your phone! If needed, the Absolute Investigations team is on hand to recover your devices in collaboration with law enforcement.

Monitor Web use and device health beyond Google Workspace

For K-12 education, learning programs rely on more than Google Classroom and Google Workspace/G-Suite. Protect your students and improve learning outcomes with activity reports that measure the adoption of every online learning tool, and the ability to identify and take action on unauthorized activity. Detailed inventory and usage reports make it easy to monitor device health, optimize your spend, and satisfy compliance requirements.

	Absolute Visibility for Chromebooks	Absolute Control for Chromebooks	Absolute Resilience for Chromebooks
	Serves as your source of truth for device and application health.	Provides you a lifeline to protect at-risk devices and data.	Most Powerful Delivers confident risk response.
Track hardware
Report and alert on hundreds of hardware attributes OS Support:
Monitor device leasing reports OS Support:
Track new device activations and connection history OS Support:
Leverage pre-built and custom reports OS Support:
Flag missing devices and be alerted when they connect to the internet OS Support:
Measure Device Usage
Login/unlock and device interaction event OS Support:
Report on average daily usage by device OS Support:
Report on visited websites and understand the ROI from Web Apps in your environment¹ OS Support:
Monitor Device Location
Track device location with 365 days of history OS Support:
Define geofences to detect unauthorized device movement OS Support:
Remotely Freeze Devices
Freeze a device with custom message – scheduled or on demand OS Support:
Secure, On-Device End User Communications
Inform users by displaying important messaging on their devices’ screen or to solicit feedback OS Support:
Investigate and Recover Stolen Devices
Recover stolen devices OS Support:
Service Guarantee for devices not recovered² (Education only) OS Support:
Absolute Platform Components
Absolute Persistence OS Support:
Rules & Policy Engine OS Support:
Alerts OS Support:
Dashboards OS Support:
API Library OS Support:
Cloud-based console OS Support:
Predefined and customized alerts OS Support:
Universal SIEM connector OS Support:
Role-based access control OS Support:
Single sign-on OS Support:
2-factor authentication OS Support:
Absolute Connector for ServiceNow^® OS Support:
Accelerated Device Actions³ OS Support:

Included

Add-on feature

Report only

Windows

Mac

Chrome

iOS

Android

1 Only available for Chrome browser, on Windows and Chromebook devices.

2 North American, UK and Australian Education Customers only. Terms and Conditions apply. See FAQ for more details.

3 Accelerated Device Actions is available with Absolute Resilience. Supported actions include Device Freeze, Device Wipe, File Delete, End User Messaging, Absolute Reach scripts and Endpoint Data Discovery. These actions are available with Absolute Visibility and Absolute Control as well, but not in an accelerated manner.

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Absolute for Chromebooks FAQ

What is Absolute for Chromebooks?

Absolute for Chromebooks is a solution that allows Enterprise or Education customers to protect and secure their Chromebook devices. For Education customers, Absolute for Chromebooks is the only solution that combines technology and services to create a safer school environment. Absolute for Chromebooks includes Student Technology Analytics to understand utilization, prove ROI, and correlate technology investment with student performance.

What do I receive with Absolute for Chromebooks?

Absolute for Chromebooks includes three key components:

Student Technology Analytics (primarily for Education customers)
- Analyze technology-use metrics across Windows, Mac, and Chrome
- Correlate academic performance to demonstrate the positive impact of technology adoption on learning outcomes
- Detect students who might be struggling with technology, so the teachers can provide them with assistance
- Prove technology ROI to protect funding
Reporting and Alerts
- Monitor and report on hardware and software information
- Track assets on a Google™ map including recent and historical locations
- Create geofences based on school policies and boundaries with notifications when a device is out of bounds
- Identify risk conditions and receive an alert when suspicious events occur
- Remotely freeze a device with a custom message to the end user
- Protect Chromebooks alongside Windows, Apple, and Android devices in a single cloud-based console
Theft Investigations Services
- Absolute investigators work with local law enforcement to assist in the investigation and device recovery of reportedly stolen devices
- In the event a device cannot be recovered, a service guarantee is available to aid in purchasing a replacement device (some conditions apply)

How do I deploy the Absolute Chromebook extension?

The extension is deployed through the Google Management Console. No device configuration is required. For Education customers, Absolute can assist your school district to deploy the extension as part of the Safe Schools service included with Absolute.

How is Absolute for Chromebooks licensed? Does the number of devices need to equate to the number of users?

Absolute for Chromebooks is licensed on a per-device basis, offering enterprises and schools the flexibility to meet their specific needs.

What device information does Absolute for Chromebooks report and alert on?

Absolute for Chromebooks can report and alert on all device information collected by the Absolute Chromebook Extension. Refer to the table below for more information.

Asset Information	Hardware Information	Software Information	Geolocation	Device Usage
Local IP	Wi-Fi Mac Address	Extension Names	IP Geolocation	Login Events
Public IP	Supplementary Mac Address (Ethernet, Bluetooth, etc.)	Extension Descriptions	HTML5 API Geolocation	Anonymized Keyboard and Mouse Activity
Extension Version	Video Display Depth and Resolution	Extension Versions
	RAM	OS
	Make and Model	OS Service Pack
	Storage Space	System BIOS/Firmware Version
	CPU Description*

What Risk Response features are available with Absolute for Chromebooks?

Administrators can request a device freeze, placing the Chromebook into a frozen state. If the device is not connected to the Internet, the device freeze will be performed when it next connects to the Internet. In its frozen state, the device can display a custom message to verify the status of the user, an effective tool when for example a student may have mistakenly taken a Chromebook.

What is the process for investigating stolen devices?

Customers simply need to file an Investigation Report in the Absolute Console. This report requires a police incident number. This information is then used by the Absolute Investigations team as part of the included Theft Investigations Service. Absolute Investigators will then use their unique toolset to collect evidence from the device, and work with law enforcement to facilitate the recovery and return of the device. This managed service places the investigation in the hands of professionals, unlike other solutions that put your school administrators at risk.