Absolute for Chromebooks
Unrivalled insight and control over your Chromebooks and mixed device environments
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
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 for Chromebooks
Absolute for Chromebooks provides unrivaled insights and control over your Chromebooks and mixed device environments. Absolute enhances the Google Admin Console, extending its capabilities with comprehensive intelligence and control. Everything you need is at your fingertips.
Report and alert on hundreds of hardware attributes
Monitor device leasing reports
Track new device activations and connection history
Leverage pre-built and custom reports
Flag missing devices and be alerted when they connect to the internet
Measure Device Usage
Login/unlock and device interaction event
Report on average daily usage by device
Report on visited websites and understand the ROI from Web Apps in your environment1
Monitor Device Location
Track device location with 365 days of history
Define geofences to detect unauthorized device movement
Remotely Freeze Devices
Freeze a device with custom message – scheduled or on demand
Secure, On-Device End User Communications
Inform users by displaying important messaging on their devices’ screen or to solicit feedback
Investigate and Recover Stolen Devices
Recover stolen devices
Service Guarantee for devices not recovered2 (Education only)
Absolute Platform Components
Absolute Persistence
Rules & Policy Engine
Alerts
Dashboards
API Library3
Cloud-based console
Predefined and customized alerts
Role-based access control
Single sign-on
2-factor authentication
Absolute Connector for ServiceNow®
Automated Actions
Absolute Connector for Forescout eyeSight
Universal SIEM connector
Accelerated Device Actions4
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 API support for a particular product feature or function is aligned with the availability of that feature for a given base or add-on product. Devices that are not licensed for a given feature will not have access to APIs for it.
4 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.
Download the Absolute for Chromebooks Product Feature Matrix
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Absolute for Chromebooks FAQ
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.
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)
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.
Absolute for Chromebooks is licensed on a per-device basis, offering enterprises and schools the flexibility to meet their specific needs.
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 InformationHardware InformationSoftware InformationGeolocationDevice UsageLocal IPWi-Fi Mac AddressExtension NamesIP GeolocationLogin EventsPublic IPSupplementary Mac Address (Ethernet, Bluetooth, etc.)Extension DescriptionsHTML5 API GeolocationAnonymized Keyboard and Mouse ActivityExtension VersionVideo Display Depth and ResolutionExtension Versions RAMOS Make and ModelOS Service Pack Storage SpaceSystem BIOS/Firmware Version CPU Description*
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.
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.