Web Filtering for Schools

Ensure safe, compliant access with smarter web filtering

Web filtering is a necessity in schools, for student safety, CIPA compliance, AUP adherence, and network security. But in order to filter effectively and efficiently, schools must do more than just install an Internet filter.

School IT departments have to stay ahead of the kids, ensuring that proxy tunnels don’t allow users to bypass the filter and access inappropriate sites. They have to monitor and report on the effectiveness of the filtering, including reviewing blocked and visited sites. They have to ensure that over-blocking doesn’t limit the educational potential of the Internet, and that under-blocking doesn’t compromise student safety. And they have to do all these things in an under-staffed, budget-constrained environment.

In today’s schools, a web filtering software or hardware solution has to do more than block inappropriate sites. It needs to balance educational Web 2.0 use with student safety and network security.

Learn about our Web Filter.

Videos

Alan November Talks About Filtering

Information Papers

• Guide to Intelligent Filtering: How You Can Filter More Effectively and Efficiently
• Forensics: Identifying, Investigating, and Prosecuting Sexual Misconduct in Your School
• CIPA Compliance: Keeping Kids Safe on the Web
• Acceptable Use Policies: Creating and Enforcing Guidelines for Use of School Technologies
• Cyberbullying: Protecting Kids from Online Harassment

Case Studies

• Birdville Implements an Innovative Filtering Policy—with an Innovative Filter
• Shelley School District Controls Network Activity with the Lightspeed Suite
• IU13 Provides Flexible, Customizable Filtering to the Districts It Services
• The Lightspeed Suite Saves IT Staff Time at Farmington School District
• Carroll County Finds a Better Web Filter, and Gets a Whole Lot More
• Sierra Sands Keeps Students Safe–on the Web and on YouTube–with Lightspeed
• Willows Tackles Tight School Budgets with a Single Solution
• See more case studies

Additional Resources

• Filter IQ quiz
• See our resources for Web 2.0 in schools

Our Solutions for Web Filtering

Quick Look: Lightspeed Mobile Filtering

Datasheet: Web Filter

Datasheet: Mobile Filter

Datasheet: Guide Browser Application