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Add an administrator If you have other users under your G Suite account, you can make one of them an administrator to help you manage your account. This way, if you’re busy or on vacation, your team can rely on someone else to perform common tasks like resetting passwords or running reports. You decide how much access you’d like to give the other administrator by assigning them a role. G Suite comes with out-of-the-box roles with predetermined access levels. Or, you can create custom roles with different access levels. When the new administrator signs in to admin.google.com, they’ll see the Google Admin console and all the controls they have access to.
CONTENT 1. Add someone as an admin 2. Ask admins to add their recovery information 3. View a user’s role
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Add someone as an admin 1.
Sign in to the Admin console with your G Suite administrator email address and password.
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From the Admin console Home page, click Users.
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Click the user you want to make an administrator. This brings you to their account page.
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At the bottom, click Show more.
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Click Admin roles and privileges.
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Click Manage Roles. You can now choose what privileges the user will have.
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In the Manage roles list, check the box for the type of admin you’d like to make the user, such as Super Admin. Super administrators have management rights over your entire Google Apps account, including resetting your admin password if you forget it. Note: If you don’t want to make the user a Super Admin, see a list of other admin roles you can assign them. If you don’t find a role that matches your needs, you can create your own custom role.
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Click Update roles. The page will refresh, and you’ll see the admin roles that are assigned to the user.
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Ask admins to add their recovery information Next, you should encourage your new admins to add a backup email and telephone number to their account in case they forget their password. As the owner of your G Suite account, you don’t need to do this yourself, since you added them when you signed up for G Suite. Send your additional administrators these instructions to add their recovery information: 1.
Sign in to My Account.
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In the Personal info & privacy section, select Your personal info.
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Choose Email.
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Next to Recovery email, select Add recovery email. If you’re prompted, retype your password and click Add recovery email again.
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Enter your recovery email address. This is the email that will be used if you forget your G Suite username or password.
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Select Done.
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View a user’s role If you have several administrators or you’ve assigned roles and privileges to users, you can check their status from the Admin console. 1.
Sign in to the Admin console with your G Suite administrator email address and password.
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In the Admin console Home page, click Users and scroll down to the user or enter their name in the search bar at the top.
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Click the user’s name (not their profile picture or initial).
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On their account page, click Show more > Admin roles and privileges. You’ll see their roles.
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(Optional) To see the user’s privileges, on the right, click View Privileges.
Find out more about adding Admin roles and privileges
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