GoGuardian Admin

We are utilizing GoGuardian Admin for filtering students on the internet. GoGuardian Admin allows me to delegate certain admins to control certain organizational units and only those. The building administrators can block or unblock websites without my assistance. Additionally, they can easily see student history. They have started to use the parent reports during student-parent meetings to help illustrate what the student is doing during the day. We currently do no have any of the parent features enabled, though.

We use the Admin console to help manage our over 14,000 chromebooks. Everything from Content filtering to asset tracking.

We use GoGuardian Admin to filter the content on student's Chromebooks. GoGuardian Admin ensures we are able to keep our students safe online by using machine learning and artificial intelligence for content filtering along with traditional allow and blocklists. The system analyzes what is on the screen, regardless of the URL. If the content is inappropriate, it is blocked, and a message is sent to my team. We are able to set different levels of filtering based on OU. We have the ability to filter the devices both on campus and off. Our team is also able to see what sites students are visiting. This is amazing for understanding how Chromebooks are being used and for dealing with cases of academic dishonesty. Additionally, GoGuardian Admin is able to detect when students are searching/viewing content related to self-harm/suicide ideation. Alerts are triggered in those instances as well. Lastly, GG Admin is essential when tracking lost or stolen devices. The system makes it incredibly easy to locate a device the minute it comes online.

We have used GoGuardian for a handful of implementations—student device monitoring, web filtering and monitoring, and network filtering. We have tried out a few different companies and solutions in the past years and the end goal is to find one company/product that can do it all.

Our entire organization uses GoGuardian Admin. The problems that GoGuardian addresses are the filtering of student devices as it pertains to explicit content as well as self-harm. We are a 1 to 1 chromebook school so each student has their own device which they take home each day and bring with them to class, which means we need constant filtering of their devices.

We use GoGuardian Admin across our whole organization. The Admin portion is the interface piece that allows you to make content policy changes in the GoGuardian Admin filtering software. Since GoGuardian Admin is a cloud filtering solution, we use it to filter devices both on-premises and off-campus. This makes it incredibly easy for users to make that transition without changing settings or being inconvenienced. We use it for Chrome OS devices only. They have since added the ability to use the software for Windows machines. This is not something we have taken advantage of at this time.

We use GoGuardian to monitor student activities on our school network. It can blacklist and whitelist sites to manage student access to content as well as the location of devices. Filtering is effective, and working in conjunction with the teacher product helps to keep our students on task.