Go Guardian is Cloud Filtering Made Easy
Updated February 19, 2020

Go Guardian is Cloud Filtering Made Easy

Brandon Burch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with GoGuardian Admin

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • It has allowed us to deploy thousands of devices for home and on-premises use successfully. Without this cloud filtering, we would be stuck.
  • The theft recovery piece has allowed us to get our assets back from students that have left the district or that have misused them.
When we were first looking for a cloud filtering solution, there were not many competitors out there. We looked at Securly, but at the time, they did not match up. GoGuardian Admin had far more features (that would benefit us) at that time. I know there are more solutions available now, but I have not looked into any recently. The elements of GoGuardian Admin that seemed to stand out were the Youtube filter, the Teacher classroom management piece, and the Theft Recovery. Over time I believe they scaled back the Theft Recovery piece due to privacy concerns, but it still functions very well.
Excellent support overall. I mostly use the chat window that is easily accessible from the main screen within the software. The responses are usually speedy and informative. That being said I have not had to use this very often. I have had a few small issues I could not figure out (one student not being recognized in the software, some reporting information not populating) but nothing of any high severity.

Do you think GoGuardian Admin delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with GoGuardian Admin's feature set?

Yes

Did GoGuardian Admin live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of GoGuardian Admin go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy GoGuardian Admin again?

Yes

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.