GoGuardian Teacher - Take Control of Your Classroom
Rating: 10 out of 10
February 20, 2020
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Vetted Review
Verified User
5 years of experience
We use GoGuardian Teacher across our organization. It is used by teachers to manage student Chromebook sessions in classrooms. Through this software, teachers can not only see student activity but they can also make filtering decisions on the spot to allow or block websites. This allows teachers to guide their own students without contacting their IT department.
- Account setup is very easy.
- The software is extremely intuitive.
Cons
- Students sometimes do not show up in the software despite being logged on to a Chromebook.
- A Chromebook coming in and out of a sleep state can cause the user to not show up correctly.
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- We have been able to identify inappropriate websites that students have discovered. For example anonymous proxies, movie streaming, etc. Through this software, we have been able to identify the students and in turn block the websites.
- We have been able to identify which students have been using other user's accounts. This was an unintended side effect of the software. If a teacher knows that a student is using a Chromebook but the student is not showing up in the software, we are easily able to deduce that the user must be using another student's account.
At the time we purchased GoGuardian there were no other alternatives that came even close to the functionality of this product. Over time I'm sure that some new products have been released. We, however, have not explored any other software suites for classroom management. We may in the future but for now, we are locked into GoGuardian Teacher.