10 Tips for Take-Home Chromebooks

More and more schools are realizing the benefits of sending devices home with students: It enables 24/7 learning, gives students access to all their resources, builds their technology skills, a…

Filtering SSL and Google Services: Your Newest Options

Every time we talk to or survey schools, we hear SSL is a top challenge. Schools want to filter by individual YouTube videos, report on Google search terms or block inappropriate Google images…

How to Stop Students from Bypassing Your School’s Web Filter

Whether they’re downloading the latest app, streaming the big game, or using the latest hardware, kids often seem miles ahead of adults in understanding—and mastering—technology. Unfortunately,…

Got Chromebooks? This Is the Best Way to Manage Internet Access After School

Differentiating your internet access policies is a must when you’re filtering K-12 schools. In a recent Lightspeed Systems community poll, 66 percent of K-12 IT teams said they differentiate po…

Block YouTube for Students? Here Are 7 More Reasons to Try Smart Play

Safe YouTube Content Filtering for Schools Recently, we asked our community of customers this big question: What new feature would you like to see from Lightspeed? A common theme in their…

8 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Chromebook Content Filter for K-12

Google Chromebooks continue to dominate one-to-one digital learning in K-12 thanks to their low cost, ease of use, and collaborative abilities.

5 More Things You Didn’t Know About Our URL Database and Web Filter

What do you know about your EdTech web filter? In a recent blog post, we talked about how the Lightspeed Systems Web Filter’s URL database works, including how content is categorized. We…

How to Protect Your Students From New Websites

Protect K-12 students from harmful websites Our Web Filter‘s AI Adaptive Database is the most accurate, comprehensive website database of any other filter, with 72 million URLs organized…

What Your Suspicious Activity Reports Should Be Telling You

K-12 web filtering reports have evolved When you’re checking out a new content filtering solution, its marketing materials will probably boast about the filter’s advanced reporting. But t…