Lamar County School District Chooses Lightspeed Systems® to Filter and Protect Student Chromebooks

PURVIS, MS. — Mississippi’s Lamar County School District has selected edtech company Sistemas Lightspeed to provide device filtering and monitoring services for the district’s 19 schools. Filtro Lightspeed™ has been implemented to protect and monitor more than 7,600 student Chromebooks across the district, blocking dangerous web content while also monitoring student activity to help district staff identify suspicious behavior and safety threats.

Lightspeed has filtered K-12 schools for almost 20 years and has provided content filtering services for Lamar County School District’s devices since 2013. By implementing Lightspeed Filter, a multi-OS cloud filtering and monitoring software solution, the district will benefit from features such as:

• Alerta de velocidade da luz™ — receive immediate alerts when students enter or browse suspicious and troubling terms/content, allowing staff to intervene or escalate
• Simple SSL filtering — filter SSL sites like Google and YouTube without having to use proxies, PAC files or certificates
• Gerador de relatórios para pais — carregue um arquivo CSV simples com endereços de e-mail dos pais para automatizar a entrega de relatórios de atividades dos dispositivos dos alunos nas caixas de entrada dos pais
• Bloqueios — bloqueiam o acesso dos alunos à Internet se eles tentarem acessar muitos sites bloqueados em sucessão
• Smart Play — the game-changing YouTube management feature that allows students to access tens of millions of educational videos (and none of the bad stuff)

“Lightspeed Filter is a turning point in the way we protect our students from the dangers of the Internet,” Lamar County School District Director of Technology Ross Randall said. “With the deployment of Lightspeed Filter, I can now allow my students to access useful content that I would have otherwise blocked due to the inability to granularly filter out the bad. I am confident that my students are in a much safer environment, and with the ability to flag terms I feel we can offer data that can be used in behavioral interventions.”

“After working with the district for more than five years, we have seen how devoted Ross and the rest of the staff are to giving students an advanced, 20th-century learning experience,” Lightspeed Systems President and CEO Brian Thomas said. “By implementing Lightspeed Filter, the district is not only safe from inappropriate and malicious online content, it will also be able to help students who need intervention.”

Sobre a Lightspeed SystemsA Lightspeed Systems faz parceria com escolas para tornar o aprendizado seguro, móvel e facilmente gerenciado. Em parceria com 6.500 distritos nos Estados Unidos e 25.000 escolas ao redor do mundo, a Lightspeed Systems oferece soluções integradas para redes escolares K-12 mais inteligentes: Lightspeed Filter, Gerenciamento de dispositivos móveis Lightspeed™, Gestão de sala de aula Lightspeed™, e Análise Lightspeed™. Para saber mais, visite https://www.lightspeedsystems.com.

About Lamar County School DistrictThe mission of the Lamar County School’s Technology Department is to support and encourage the integration and successful application of educational technology into the areas of curriculum, instruction, and administration. Located in Lamar County, Mississippi, the district serves more than 10,700 students in 19 elementary, middle, and high schools across Baxterville, Purvis, Hattiesburg, Lumberton, and Sumrall. To learn more, visit https://www.lamarcountyschools.org.