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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 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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Go Guardian is Cloud Filtering Made Easy

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 19, 2020
BB
Vetted Review
Verified User
GoGuardian Admin
5 years of experience
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.
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.
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.
  • 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.

GoGuardian is worth it

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 15, 2019
LJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
GoGuardian Admin
2 years of experience
We use GoGuardian to monitor student activities on our school network. It can blacklist and whitelist sites to manage student access to content as well as the location of devices. Filtering is effective, and working in conjunction with the teacher product helps to keep our students on task.
  • 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
Great for a G-suite environment as it is easily set up. The site traffic data is useful to monitor trends and the filtering alerts help to keep students focused or even get help in extreme cases.
  • Web filtering
  • ROI is really good
  • Device management could improve
Easier to use and set up. Interface is nicer and cleaner. Support is better and data is easier to access. More cost effective.
100
Teachers and school administrators
2
Some technical understanding of the Google Admin portal, extensions, web filtering, and security.
  • Web filtering
  • Web traffic analysis
  • Device management
  • Support teacher tech usage in class
  • Insight into student online behavior in school
  • Deeper analysis of student web activity
  • Device tracking and recovery
  • Better filtering
Does what we need it to do and more in a very cost-effective manner. Relatively easy to use and great customer support. They are quick and clear and will walk you through things in real time.

GoGuardian Admin--Put Ownership Back in Principals' Hands

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 23, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
GoGuardian Admin
3 years of experience
We are utilizing GoGuardian Admin for filtering students on the internet. GoGuardian Admin allows me to delegate certain admins to control certain organizational units and only those. The building administrators can block or unblock websites without my assistance. Additionally, they can easily see student history. They have started to use the parent reports during student-parent meetings to help illustrate what the student is doing during the day. We currently do no have any of the parent features enabled, though.
  • 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
GoGuardian Admin took the pressure off of IT to deal with filtering and gave control to the building admin. No longer does IT have to check if the website is appropriate or if the building principal wants to allow it. They take care of it on their own! Put ownership of internet use back on the building admin instead of IT, since it was always a classroom management problem, not a technology problem.
  • Simple interface for non-tech staff to use
  • Clear filtering rules
  • Syncs with Google
  • Freed up IT's time
  • It is pricey (but worth it!)
  • Provided more control to building administration
  • Lightspeed Filter (formerly Relay)
GoGuardian Admin has been leading the way in content filtering for both on and off site with an easy-to-use interface. At the time, it was one of the first to offer cloud-based off-site filtering for Chromebooks. They continue to grow and provide new features every year with great tutorials and updates.

Powerful all-in-one solution for your business.

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 28, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
GoGuardian Admin
2 years of experience
We have used GoGuardian for a handful of implementations—student device monitoring, web filtering and monitoring, and network filtering. We have tried out a few different companies and solutions in the past years and the end goal is to find one company/product that can do it all.
  • Cloud filtering assures we don't need to maintain our own server.
  • Nice monitoring dashboard.
Cons
  • UI is still not perfect but is useable.
  • Reports are not always as specific as we'd like.
GoGuardian is really good at alerting us when students use devices inappropriately or when flags (self-harm, abuse, explicit content) come up on their devices. Obviously, you still need to have a plan in place for when those things come up so they can be properly addressed.
  • Web filtering
  • student monitoring
  • Automates student monitoring.
  • It's a great tool that combines network utilities and student monitoring all in one.
Not sure if WatchGuard has student monitoring in place yet, but they didn't when we were using them, so we needed to use another product alongside it. GoGuardian Admin is nice because it's all accessible from one single interface.
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