Access checker for Google Slides now checks permissions when you share with new users

Access checker in Google Slides ensures viewers and presenters can play videos and audio files as expected. By automatically offering access suggestions for embedded content, users can create, present, and consume without needing to adjust permissions manually, and can be confident all users will have a seamless presentation experience.

Earlier this year, Google announced that Access checker would check permissions when you inserted Drive-stored audio and video files in Google Slides. With this launch, Google will also perform an access check for already embedded audio and video content after you share the presentation with additional users or groups. Specifically, when you close the sharing dialog, Access checker will run and may suggest permission changes for multiple Drive video and audio files in the presentation.

This additional functionality will help ensure all viewers and editors of the presentation will get a consistent experience.

• Admins: Use the Help Center to learn how to manage Access Checker for your organization.
• End users: This feature will be ON by default. Use the Help Center to learn more about how to insert files in Google Slides.

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on October 8, 2020
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 4, 2020

• Available to Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education, Enterprise for Education, and Nonprofits customers and users with personal accounts

• This feature was listed as an upcoming release.