Go Guardian is Cloud Filtering Made Easy
Rating: 9 out of 10
February 19, 2020
BB
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
- 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.