The program policies listed below apply to content when using Google Classroom. This includes all Classroom features, such as course names, information shared in the class stream, communications and collaboration between teachers, students, and class materials. The program policies listed below play an important role in maintaining a positive experience for everyone using Google products.
We need to curb abuse that threatens our ability to provide these services, and we ask that everyone abide by the policies below to help us achieve this goal. After we are notified of a potential policy violation, we may review the content and take action, including restricting access to the content, removing the content globally, and limiting or terminating a user’s access to Google products.
When applying these policies, we may make exceptions based on educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic considerations, or where there are other substantial benefits to the public from not taking action on the content.
Be sure to check back from time to time, as these policies may change. Please also refer to Google’s Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and the terms of service and policies for Workspace services, including Google Drive, Docs, Gmail and Calendar.
Report abuse
If you believe that someone is violating the policies found below, report abuse. If you’re a Workspace user, contact your organization administrator to report a violation of these policies.
To report copyright infringement or other allegedly illegal content, please use this tool which will guide you through the process of reporting content that you believe warrants removal from Google's services based on applicable laws.
Program Policies
Account HijackingDo not create, upload, or distribute content that exploits or abuses children. This includes all child sexual abuse materials. To report content on a Google product that may exploit a child, click “Report abuse.” If you find content elsewhere on the internet, please contact the appropriate agency in your country directly.
More broadly, Google prohibits the use of our products to endanger children. This includes but is not limited to predatory behavior towards children such as:
- ‘Child grooming’ (for example, befriending a child online to facilitate, either online or offline, sexual contact and/or exchanging sexual imagery with that child);
- ‘Sextortion’ (for example, threatening or blackmailing a child by using real or alleged access to a child’s intimate images);
- Sexualization of a minor (for example, imagery that depicts, encourages or promotes the sexual abuse of children or the portrayal of children in a manner that could result in the sexual exploitation of children); and
- Trafficking of a child (for example, advertising or solicitation of a child for commercial sexual exploitation).
Do not impersonate a person or organization or misrepresent yourself. This includes impersonating any person or organizations you don’t represent; or providing misleading information about a user/site’s identity, qualifications, ownership, purpose, products, services, or business.
This also includes content or accounts misrepresenting or concealing their ownership or primary purpose such as misrepresenting or intentionally concealing your country of origin or other material details about yourself when directing content about politics, social issues, or matters of public concern to users in a country other than your own. We do allow parody, satire, and the use of pseudonyms or pen names -- just avoid content that is likely to mislead your audience about your true identity.
Do not distribute content that deceives, misleads, or confuses users. This includes:
- Misleading content related to civic and democratic processes: Content that is demonstrably false and could significantly undermine participation or trust in civic or democratic processes. This includes information about public voting procedures, political candidate eligibility based on age or birthplace, election results, or census participation that contradicts official government records. It also includes Incorrect claims that a political figure or government official has died, been involved in an accident, or is suffering from a sudden serious illness
- Misleading content related to harmful conspiracy theories: Content that promotes or lends credibility to beliefs that individuals or groups are systematically committing acts that cause widespread harm. This content is contradicted by substantial evidence and has resulted in or incites violence.
- Misleading content related to harmful health practices: Misleading health or medical content that promotes or encourages others to engage in practices that may lead to serious physical or emotional harm to individuals, or serious public health harm.
- Manipulated media: Media that has been technically manipulated or doctored in a way that misleads users and may pose a serious risk of egregious harm.
Known violent non-state organizations and movements are not permitted to use this product for any purpose.
Do not distribute content that facilitates or promotes the activities of these groups, such as recruiting, coordinating online or offline activities, sharing manuals or other materials that could facilitate harm, promoting ideologies of violent non-state organizations, promoting terrorist acts, inciting violence, or celebrating attacks by violent non-state organizations.
Depending upon the content, we may also take action against the user.
Content related to violent non-state organizations may be allowed in an educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic context, but please be mindful to provide enough information to help people understand the context.