Is GoGuardian legal?

Yes. All GoGuardian products are compliant with federal and state laws, including FERPA; GoGuardian is a proud signatory of the Student Privacy Pledge, coordinated by FutureofPrivacy.org.

Why is GoGuardian illegal?

GoGuardian can also track the location of your chromebook which is a clear breach of the law. As far as work arounds, they can block websites or even focus more on paper lessons/activities. If anyone decides to fool around on their Chromebook and doesn't do their work, that's on them.

Why is GoGuardian an invasion of privacy?

GoGuardian Teacher: A 24/7 Lesson in Surveillance

GoGuardian gives teachers a real-time feed of their students' screens, and allows them to block any websites for individuals or groups. Students have no way of opting out of scenes and do not have to confirm that they know they are being monitored.

Can GoGuardian see through camera?

GoGuardian can collect information about any activity when users are logged onto their accounts, including data originating from a student's webcam, microphone, keyboard, and screen, along with historical data such as browsing history.

Can students bypass GoGuardian?

When a page is blocked by GoGuardian Admin's custom filtering policies, students will receive the GoGuardian Admin block page, which includes a "Bypass" button. Users may enter the Bypass Password and be unlocked for a preset amount of time.

GoGuardian: What Teachers and Students See in Real-Time During a Session

How do I avoid GoGuardian?

How do I block GoGuardian at school?

Can GoGuardian track you at home?

GoGuardian's content filtering only applies to the district-owned Chromebooks. Students using laptops, desktops, or personal devices on the district's wifi network are filtered through Fortinet. This does not filter or monitor sites accessed by students using a personal device on cellular service.

Can you tell if GoGuardian is on?

If enabled, the GoGuardian extension will change colors to green when a teacher starts a session, and will remain green for the duration of the teacher session.

Why is everything blocked by GoGuardian?

Sites Blocked by GoGuardian Admin

This is likely due to the student being placed in the very restrictive Penalty Box within GoGuardian Admin. Most of the time if there's an Admin block, all of your students will be affected.

Why do kids hate GoGuardian?

GoGuardian is a tool teachers use to keep students on task. However, many people in our school and worldwide believe this tool is goes to far and is an invasion of our privacy. GoGuardian also tracks the location of your chromebook which is a clear breach of the law.

Does GoGuardian spy on you?

Once a session begins and ends, all of the student's activity for the duration of that session will have been monitored. That data is accessible by Viewing Data from Past Session. If a school has GoGuardian Admin, students will have been monitored based on the settings previously discussed.

Can I get rid of GoGuardian?

Yes, there is a way to disable GoGuardian. All you have to do is just, 1: Press esc, refresh, power to Powerwash.

Does GoGuardian sell your data?

GoGuardian does not sell, rent, or trade any Personal Student Information. GoGuardian is not in the business of selling information to generate revenue; our business model is based on creating effective, helpful software solutions to schools.

Why is a student not showing up in GoGuardian?

Problem: "Student not found". A common reason for not seeing your student's screen in your GoGuardian active session is if a student joined your Google Classroom using their personal Gmail account and then you uploaded your Google Classroom class into GoGuardian when you created the GoGuardian class.

Is unenrolling a school Chromebook illegal?

Yes you will get in trouble if you unenroll your school chrome book. It's loaned to you to do your school work. If you do something stupid like unenroll it you may forfeit having a school one to borrow in which case your parents would have to buy you one or you could just fail.

What does GoGuardian flag?

Flagged Activity is generated when a term within a webpage matches a term that exists on the Flagged Activity Configuration page. GoGuardian searches through the content and metadata for every website visited on a monitored device to help catch inappropriate content that may slip past traditional filtering.

Can GoGuardian see past history?

By default, the student history reports will show data from the last 5 days. The date range can be extended using the date picker calendar menu. Data is available for up to 6 months. You may view up to 1 month at a time.

What can GoGuardian not see?

GoGuardian will only monitor student PISD Google account logins. It cannot monitor personal Google accounts. Chromebooks are district property and should be accessed using PISD credentials.

Can GoGuardian see your entire screen?

For GoGuardian Teacher, the entire desktop will be viewable rather than only the browser view. Teachers will also have the ability to close undesired apps and open a tab even when the browser is closed. In addition to seeing the browser, the entire desktop will be viewable and lockable.

How do I stop teachers from seeing my screen on GoGuardian?

One way is to change your browser settings so that GoGuardian cannot track your activity. You can also use a privacy extension like Ghostery to block GoGuardian's tracking cookies. Finally, you can use a virtual private network (VPN) to encrypt your traffic and keep it hidden from prying eyes.

Does incognito block GoGuardian?

GoGuardian Admin's student filtering and monitoring is handled by a pair of extensions. When Chrome is in Incognito Mode, it doesn't load any extensions. Due to this, it is important to prevent students from being able to launch Chrome in Incognito Mode.

Does GoGuardian work after school hours?

By default, GoGuardian Admin has out of school mode turned off -- this configuration will result in 24/7 filtering and monitoring for student accounts. To navigate to your Out of School settings, go to manage.goguardian.com > Products > General and scroll down to the section labeled Scheduling.

Can GoGuardian lock your computer?

Devices may also be locked or unlocked by clicking the Lock / Unlock device button on the command bar and then making lock / unlock selections. Note: The lock screen command will only disable Chrome browser windows.

Can GoGuardian control your computer?

GoGuardian Teacher™ for Windows

With Windows, teachers also have control beyond the browser, including seeing and managing students' desktop and applications.