GoGuardian Teacher

We have students that work remotely. Therefore, this is a great tool for monitoring their activity and ensuring that they stay on track and get the best experience possible with our program. Our students use school issued devices, so this is well suited for our program. If students were to use their own equipment, this software may be too intrusive and be less appropriate.

GoGuardian Teacher is really awesome for teachers because it’s incredibly helpful for behavior management. Kids would always rather play games or do something else instead of listening in class, but when they know you’re watching, it helps keep them focused and responsible. However, from my understanding, it doesn’t work for students who use iPads.

GoGuardian Teacher is perfect for school districts that are invested in the G Suite/Chromebook environment. Of all the products we have put in place for teachers, this has received the most attention. Teachers can see everything a student is doing at a given time. They may close tabs that are not productive to student learning. They can lock Chromebooks, chat with students and change filtering all on their own. I honestly think this is one of the best classroom management tools for Chromebook devices.

The support is great. On the rare occasion that I've had to reach out to support they have been very quick to respond and extremely helpful. I've also had teachers reach out directly to support themselves. Most of the time I don't even know that a teacher has reached out to support until after the fact. They always seem satisfied.

GoGuardian has decreased incidents of students misusing their computers during class just by them knowing we have the capability of monitoring them. On most days my colleagues and I don't even have to open the program for our students to be modeling correct behavior. It allows us to see problems in real-time to be able to address them then, rather than after the fact.

They have been great to work with while piloting and implementing the program. They are quick to answer our faculty's questions and provide solutions to the problems. They are also open to feedback and suggestions concerning the program to help improve the platform. Our teachers have felt at ease with the implementation and are happy with the progress.

GoGuardian Teacher is great for a teacher who needs a way to monitor student activities and work time on a laptop. It is easy to set up, simple to use and helps to keep students accountable when online in class. It integrates with Google Classroom which is a big help. It is more powerful for teachers experienced in using tech in the classroom. The archiving ability is great but the UX needs to improve.

Support at GoGuardian is very quick to respond to needs. They will walk you through issues step by step. They keep at it until resolved and follow up to make sure it's still working. They have remotely taken over a device to help a staff member when I was not available to troubleshoot.

GoGuardian allows teachers to track and monitor student's devices in the classroom. Additionally, the teacher can have more than one classroom split into its own category instead of a pool of students. Finally, the teacher can set up scheduling so GoGuardian automatically saves the data from that specified tracking period.

GoGuardian would do even better if they added a calendar to the scheduling.