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GoGuardian Admin Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 7.2 out of 10
Score
7.2 out of 10

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Pros

Comprehensive Reporting Dashboard: Users have praised the reporting Dashboard page of GoGuardian Admin, with multiple reviewers mentioning that it provides a comprehensive overview of user internet activity. This feature allows for a clear understanding of what users are doing online and helps in analyzing data and receiving valuable feedback on internet usage.

Effective Theft Recovery: Several reviewers have found the theft recovery feature of GoGuardian Admin to be highly effective in locating and recovering missing devices. This functionality ensures that devices are not permanently lost, providing peace of mind to users.

User-Friendly Device Management: Multiple users have appreciated the user-friendly nature of the device management functionality within GoGuardian Admin. They have mentioned that this feature is easy to navigate, allowing for efficient management of devices within the system.

Reviews

8 Reviews

GoGuardian Admin Adapts To Newly Imposed Minnesota Laws

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize GoGuardian Admin as an additional layer of management and web filtering for our entire Chromebook fleet. This allows us to put some of the control of content filtering into the hands of individual teachers/programs, so that they can make decisions at any given moment on what websites should be able to be utilized by their students. We also have global policies in-place for no-nonsense types of things that students shouldn't have access to regardless of program.

Pros

  • Web Filtering
  • Chromebook Livefeed/Monitoring
  • GoGuardian Admin technical support is fantastic, and is always available
  • Ease of creating individual policies based on Google Admin Console OU

Cons

  • With the new Minnesota state laws regarding student data privacy - it made it somewhat challenging for us to continue utilizing GoGuardian Admin. However, they provided some updates to their software to address these issues.
  • GoGuardian Admin recently put out an option to checkbox COPPA/CIPA compliance verifications for web filtering. It seems that this still needs some work, as several educational websites we utilize are coming up as "uncategorized" - and then are being falsely flagged and declining access.

Likelihood to Recommend

GoGuardian Admin has been a fantastic tool for my team to leverage maintaining over a thousand deployed chromebooks district-wide. That said, it's not perfect. It seemingly works better if you manually control access to needed websites - rather than the newly released COPA compliance model, as several websites are incorrectly blocked. But I have faith that these issues will be addressed and remedied in due time.

VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
GoGuardian Admin
5 years of experience

GoGuardian Admin--Put Ownership Back in Principals' Hands

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • Simple interface
  • Specific user roles
  • Easy-to-use reporting
  • Great tool to check filtering for a site
  • Lots of customization

Cons

  • Some false flags for explicit content
  • Better notification emails for flags
  • Stronger filtering for YouTube

Likelihood to Recommend

GoGuardian Admin took the pressure off of IT to deal with filtering and gave control to the building admin. No longer does IT have to check if the website is appropriate or if the building principal wants to allow it. They take care of it on their own! Put ownership of internet use back on the building admin instead of IT, since it was always a classroom management problem, not a technology problem.

VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
GoGuardian Admin
3 years of experience

GoGuardian - Get it or get lost.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Pros

  • Great at overall domain management
  • Overall great content filter
  • Asset tracking

Cons

  • We really love everything about it

Likelihood to Recommend

We demoed this product several years ago and our teachers loved it and we loved the ease of use of the entire product.

VU
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
GoGuardian Admin
5 years of experience

Industry Leading Content Filtering For 1:1 Chromebook Programs

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • Content Filtering : On and Off Campus
  • Device Tracking & Locating
  • URL History

Cons

  • The system cannot inform our team about cyber bullying or harassment.
  • Students can still play some games if those games are loaded to a Google Site.
  • There are times when a Chromebook that hasn't been restarted in a while will not show up online. This is problematic as students do not restart as much as they should.

Likelihood to Recommend

GoGuardian is excellent for any district with a 1:1 Chromebook program. Our program would not be nearly as successful without it. GoGuardian does work with other devices (Windows, iPads) but I believe some features do not work as well in those setups. We haven't tried using it for anything other than Chromebooks and I am not aware of anyone using it for iPad/Windows or Macs.

VU
Verified User
Executive in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
GoGuardian Admin
6 years of experience

Powerful all-in-one solution for your business.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • Cloud filtering assures we don't need to maintain our own server.
  • Nice monitoring dashboard.

Cons

  • UI is still not perfect but is useable.
  • Reports are not always as specific as we'd like.

Likelihood to Recommend

GoGuardian is really good at alerting us when students use devices inappropriately or when flags (self-harm, abuse, explicit content) come up on their devices. Obviously, you still need to have a plan in place for when those things come up so they can be properly addressed.

VU
Verified User
Project Manager in Social Media (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
GoGuardian Admin
2 years of experience

The Best Chromebook Management Platform

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • Filtering
  • Prevents cheating
  • Improves academic learning

Cons

  • Filtering
  • Tracking Devices
  • UI Transition

Likelihood to Recommend

GoGuardian Admin is perfect for any school looking to deploy a 1 to 1 setting where students take chromebooks home or if they travel from classroom to classroom with them. It would not be needed at home or in the business world or schools that have chromebooks but do not travel from room to room.

VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
GoGuardian Admin
9 years of experience

Go Guardian is Cloud Filtering Made Easy

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • The reporting Dashboard page gives you a great picture of what your users are doing on the internet.
  • The Theft recovery piece works very well and helps recover devices that are missing in action.

Cons

  • The reports are almost too broad.
  • Intuitive things like clicking on a URL in the top-visited section does not drill down into who was visiting that website.

Likelihood to Recommend

GoGuardian Admin is an excellent piece of software for anyone that is in a Google environment with a large number of Chrome devices. The ease of configuration and deployment is incredible. The software itself can be deployed in about 5 minutes. It is as simple as pushing out an extension and then building your policies. My favorite part of the software (probably because it solves a ridiculous problem) is the Youtube filtering piece. Finally, I have a product that can tackle the Youtube problem. Allowing and blocking Youtube videos is super easy. All videos are categorized (according to the Youtube video categories). For organizations trying to utilize the appropriate parts of Youtube without allowing all the extraneous stuff, this is huge.

BB
Brandon Burch
Coordinator of Network and Technical Services in Information Technology at Hudson Falls Central School District (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
GoGuardian Admin
5 years of experience

GoGuardian is worth it

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • Web filtering
  • Data analysis and feedback
  • Device management

Cons

  • Terminology is not always clear
  • User management can be awkward
  • The interface needs to be streamlined

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for a G-suite environment as it is easily set up. The site traffic data is useful to monitor trends and the filtering alerts help to keep students focused or even get help in extreme cases.

LJ
Laurance J. Specht
Manager of Personalized Learning and Dean of Instruction in Information Technology at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
GoGuardian Admin
2 years of experience
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