Coronavirus, School Closures, and Lightspeed Filter™
Many districts have relied on their firewall for content filtering and reporting. While firewalls have never provided the granularity of a purpose-built web filter, they’ve been sufficient for…
5 Signs It’s Time to Upgrade Your School’s Web Filtering
How good is your school’s web filtering software? Web filtering software for schools is about more than being CIPA-compliant. Your web filter is a critical part of your school’s tech stac…
Rising Suicide Rates
Can Your School Web Filter Help Prevent Suicide? Over the weekend I read this article from EdWeek about rising suicide rates among young kids. Some concerning statistics: Suicide among y…
Top Lightspeed Filter™ Features You May Not Be Using
Optimize EdTech Lightspeed Filter Lightspeed Filter does a lot — and we’re on a mission to optimize EdTech Lightspeed Filter all the time. That means there are probably some features you…
Five Ways to Maximize Class Time with Lightspeed Classroom Management™
As someone who’s been the teacher, I know how excited teachers and students are to revamp the learning process. When making the transition to distance learning or BYOD, I found endless opportun…
4 Steps to Distance Learning Success
You’re buying devices. In fact, schools purchase about 30 million devices each year! Wow.
Lightspeed Filter™ Reports Just Got Better with the Web Activity Log
Because of their breadth and actionability, Lightspeed Filter reports are already one of the things that set us apart and make us the top filter in K12 schools. In addition to robust policies t…
4 Ways Schools Can Drive Ed-Tech ROI and Compliance With Analytics
It’s something we hear from a lot of schools: first came all the devices, then came a flurry of apps and applications and digital tools and curriculum to use with them. And now, it’s a little o…
DNS over HTTPS – What Schools Need to Know about Web Filtering with DoH
School web filtering evolves with DoH Recently, Mozilla announced its plans to implement the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol by default in the Firefox browser starting in late September. So…
Student Safety Monitoring: What You May Be Missing without Lightspeed Filter™
Lightspeed Filter is more than a filter; it’s a complete student safety monitoring platform that uses advanced AI to identify at-risk students and get schools the real-time information they need to…
