# Create organizational units

## Create organizational units

An organizational unit (OU) is a group that an administrator can create in the Google Admin console to apply settings to a specific set of users. By default, all users are placed in the **top-level (parent) organizational unit**. All settings configured in the Admin console apply to this top-level organizational unit and, therefore, to all users and devices in your account. Below the top-level unit, you can add **child organizational units** and apply more specific settings to the child OUs. Child OUs inherit all the settings of their parent OUs. Please note that as the administrator, you can’t move yourself to another organizational unit.

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**Exercise directions**

**Grant the executive board exclusive access to certain tools and services**

**Step 1**

If you are not already signed in, sign in to your domain as the Administrator at [admin.google.com](https://admin.google.com/).<br>

**Step 2**

From the main menu, select **Directory**, then click **Organizational units**.

**Step 3**

Click **Create organizational unit**.<br>

**Step 4**

Name the OU the *Executive* and click **CREATE**.

**Step 5**

Create another OU called *Employees*.<br>

**Step 6**

From the main menu, navigate to **Directory** and select **Users**. You should see the two new OUs in the All organizations panel.

**Step 7**

Select *Alex*, *Lars*, Sam, and Timothy by checking the box next to their name in the user list.<br>

**Step 8**

Click **More options**, then click **Change organizational unit** and select **Executive**. Then click **CONTINUE**.

**Step 9**

Click **CHANGE** to confirm the move.

**Step 10**

Repeat steps 7-9, but, this time, move Ellie, Jon, Tom, and Will to the Employees OU.

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**Please note**: Changes can take 24 hours to propagate to all users.