Only the YouTube your teachers approve.

AllowList restricts YouTube on student Chromebooks to the channels, playlists, and videos teachers approve, synced automatically from Google Classroom. Everything else is hidden.

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Force-installed via the Google Admin console · Read-only Classroom access · FERPA & COPPA aligned

Biology 10 AllowList active

✓ Photosynthesis: Crash Course

✓ Cell Division, Explained

✓ Mitosis vs. Meiosis

✕ Trending · Shorts · Autoplay

YouTube is a great teaching tool, and the biggest distraction.

Teachers rely on YouTube for lessons students can't get anywhere else. But hand a student an open YouTube tab and you've also handed them recommendations, Shorts, and a rabbit hole. Blunt district-wide blocks throw out the good with the bad. AllowList keeps the good.

How it works

Set up in minutes. No new workflow for teachers.

Deploy to your Chromebooks

Force-install AllowList to student devices through the Google Admin console. Nothing for students or teachers to install.

Teachers approve content

Approve channels, playlists, or videos in one click, or simply post a YouTube link to Google Classroom and it's approved for that class.

Students see only what's approved

Homepage, search, and recommendations are filtered to approved content. Off-list videos are blocked. No workarounds.

Features

Purpose-built for classrooms.

Two-way Classroom sync

Rosters and approvals flow straight from Google Classroom. Post a video to a class and it becomes watchable automatically.

Per-class, per-teacher lists

Each teacher curates their own class. Students automatically get the combined approved content of every class they're in.

Teacher self-serve

Teachers approve content from a simple dropdown. No IT tickets, no admin bottleneck. Changes reach students within a minute.

Locked down for students

Force-installed and tamper-resistant, with no settings for students to touch. It just quietly enforces the list.

Search still works

Students can search, but results only surface approved channels. Curated, distraction-free, still useful.

Distractions gone

No Shorts, no Trending, no autoplaying recommendations. Just the content that supports the lesson.

Google Classroom

Works the way teachers already do.

Sharing a video for a lesson, or for the student who was out sick, is something teachers already do in Google Classroom. AllowList listens to that.

Post a YouTube link as an announcement, assignment, or material, and it's approved automatically.

Rosters stay in sync, so students are always matched to the right classes.

Read-only access to Classroom. AllowList never posts, grades, or changes anything on its own.

Biology 10 · Classroom

Mr. Gonzalez posted a video

▸ Photosynthesis: Crash Course

✓ Auto-approved for Biology 10 — watchable now

Privacy & trust

Built for student data, from the ground up.

FERPA & COPPA aligned

AllowList acts as a service provider under a data processing agreement, handling student data only on the school's instructions.

Read-only, least access

We read Classroom rosters and the signed-in email only to match students to their classes, nothing more.

No ads, no selling data

No advertising, no analytics SDKs, and we never sell or share personal information. Ever.

Read our full privacy policy.

Piloting with schools now.

Bring focused, teacher-approved YouTube to your Chromebooks. Tell us about your school and we'll set up a pilot.

Request a pilot

Or email us at hello@allowlist.app