Web Filter

About the Web Filter

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Web filtering is a balancing act between blocking inappropriate content, keeping everyone safe and on track, and giving users access to engaging, educational content.

With the Lightspeed Web Filter, IT gets CIPA-compliant filtering based on a comprehensive education-specific database and granularly customizable policies; teachers and students get access to the sites and tools that enhance education.

The Campus Collaboration Bundle combines web/mobile filtering with My Big Campus (safe social learning platform) and hosted email—because the way we see it, a content filter for K12 needs to not only block inappropriate content but also allow good content and engaging collaboration.

* The hosted Web Filter may not contain all the features of the managed Web Filter. Contact us for details.

Features of the Web Filter

The Web Filter provides powerful, easy-to-use features for web content filtering and safe Web 2.0 access:

• Comprehensive and accurate URL database with more than 1 billion entries grouped into education-specific categories
• Daily URL database updates
• Ability to create different policies based on user, IP, group, organizational unit, and domain
• Mobile filtering to extend policies and protection to off-network users
• Web zones to give teachers the ability to expand or contract Internet access for specific assignments, periods, or classes
• Lockouts to allow administrators to set abuse thresholds triggering an Internet lockout
• Customizable block pages
• Multiple layers of anonymous proxy detection
• Flexible filtering for thin clients
• Peer-to-peer application and file-type blocking
• Integration with Student Information Systems
• Safe Search
• Ability to accommodate even the heaviest traffic loads, up to 10Gb, without hindering performance
• Educational Resource Library with unfiltered access to educational YouTube videos, web sites, wikis and blogs, documents, and more
• My Big Campus for safe Web 2.0 and collaboration

Web Filter Reports

The Web Filter provides reports about blocks, overrides, and more so you can troubleshoot problems and adjust policies:

• Lockouts
• Overrides
• Web Authentications
• Blocked for Review

Combine it with the Advanced Web Traffic Reporting module for comprehensive information, custom reports, and more.

With the Lightspeed Web Filter, you can:

• Protect users from inappropriate material on the Internet while allowing them to access valuable educational resources, such as videos, blogs, and documents.
• Ensure CIPA compliance and adherence to other regulations to minimize district liability.
• Receive detailed reports on user activity.
• Enforce Acceptable Use Policies with flexible filtering policies and monitoring.
• Balance learning and safety with teacher override capabilities and a complete platform for collaboration and online learning.