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GoGuardian Admin

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What is GoGuardian Admin?

GoGuardian Admin is a web content filtering solution from education software company GoGuardian in Los Angeles, provide web filtering on-campus and off-campus filtering.

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GoGuardian Admin Adapts To Newly Imposed Minnesota Laws

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Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

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.

Return on Investment

  • Our small team of only three Helpdesk technicians can manage nearly 1200 Chromebooks regardless of if they're in one of our buildings or taken home by a student. Web filtering can now successfully be vetted on and offsite for all students - keeping us compliant with state and federal law.
  • Stacking this on top of the Google Admin Console allows for two layers of web filtering to occur, which provides us with peace of mind.

Go Guardian is Cloud Filtering Made Easy

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Brandon Burch
Coordinator of Network and Technical Services in Information Technology at Hudson Falls Central School District (201-500 employees employees)

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.

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Alternatives Considered

Securly:// Safety Console

Other Software Used

G Suite, GoGuardian Teacher

GoGuardian is worth it

Incentivized
Laurance J. SpechtView profile
Manager of Personalized Learning and Dean of Instruction in Information Technology at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School (51-200 employees employees)

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

Return on Investment

  • Web filtering
  • ROI is really good
  • Device management could improve

Alternatives Considered

Alert Logic Web Security Manager and AlertBot Website Monitoring

Other Software Used

Google Classroom, GoGuardian Teacher

Industry Leading Content Filtering For 1:1 Chromebook Programs

Incentivized
Verified User
Executive in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

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.

Most Important Features

  • Content Filtering
  • Device Tracking
  • URL History Search

Return on Investment

  • GG Admin has made it easy to justify the use of Chromebooks in our district.
  • GG Admin has alerted us to times where students might be in a dangerous/unwanted situation.
  • GG Admin has helped us locate quite a few lost or stolen devices over the years.

Alternatives Considered

Securly 24

GoGuardian Admin--Put Ownership Back in Principals' Hands

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

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

Most Important Features

  • Simple interface for non-tech staff to use
  • Clear filtering rules
  • Syncs with Google

Return on Investment

  • Freed up IT's time
  • It is pricey (but worth it!)
  • Provided more control to building administration

Alternatives Considered

Lightspeed Filter (formerly Relay)

Other Software Used

GoGuardian Teacher, PaperCut, Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering PAN-DB