Works With Google Workspace For Education Accounts

Account Compatibility

CQD works with both personal Google accounts and managed Google Workspace for Education accounts. School and university Classroom tenants render the same core interface as personal ones — same Classwork tab structure, same attachment cards — which is why the extension's detection works identically once it is allowed to run.

The practical gate is rarely the account itself; it is whether your school's device policy permits installing extensions in the first place.

If Your School Manages The Browser

Managed Chromebooks and school-controlled browsers can restrict what gets installed. If CQD is blocked or missing from the store on a school device, that is policy, not a technical failure. What tends to work:

• Send your IT admin the official store link plus the open-source GitHub repository for review.
• Point out the privacy posture: no file contents read, no third-party tracking, aggregate-only metrics.
• Ask whether your school allows a student-requested extension allowlist process — many do.
• On personal devices, install from the same store links with no restrictions.

Common Setups, Honestly Categorized

If your setup falls into a gray area, the fastest resolution has always been a two-line email to IT with the store link and repository URL attached. Admins respond better to transparent, auditable extensions than to any workaround — which is exactly why none is offered here.

• Personal laptop + school Classroom account: works out of the box — this is the most common configuration.
• School-managed Chromebook: depends entirely on your district's extension allowlist; many schools approve study tools through a request process.
• Personal browser signed into a managed account: the browser profile is yours, so installation follows your device's rules, not Google's.
• Teacher devices: same story as students — CQD only reads pages you already have open and downloads files already shared with you.

What CQD Never Touches

Even on managed accounts, CQD does not read your email, grades, docs, or file contents. It operates on the Classroom page you already have open, triggers downloads you could have triggered manually, and sends back only aggregate reliability counters (counts of detections and download outcomes) designed so no personal profile can be built from them.

For the full permission-by-permission breakdown, see the security overview; for data handling details, see the privacy summary.

Teachers And Admins

Teachers evaluating CQD for their classes: students using it are downloading materials you already shared with them through Classroom, via their own accounts. Nothing is posted, edited, or exfiltrated. Schools that permit "download helper" style extensions generally clear CQD quickly because the repository is public and auditable.

If you want a second opinion before recommending it to a class, point your IT department at the changelog — every feature and fix since v1.0 is documented there in plain language.