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Student Safety Monitoring and Suicide Prevention with Lightspeed Alert™

It is our mission to protect students.

10 Tips for Going Back to School

Ready to go back to school? The end of summer means students are heading back to class soon, and you’re busy onboarding, getting devices ready, putting the final touches on your program o...

Lightspeed Filter™ Policy Check Up

It's time for a Lightspeed Policy Filter Check-up With students returning to school, it’s a good time to verify your Lightspeed Filter settings to make sure your filter policy is current...

Lightspeed is Heading to ISTE 2019 – See What’s New!

It’s time for ISTE 2019 and Lightspeed Systems is excited to see everyone in Philly! The new products and features we’ll be showing off make Relay the one product you need to have for your 1:1...

The Data You Need for Distance Learning Success

Can you answer these questions about your distance learning program? What programs and apps are most used? Least used? Which classes use our LMS the most? How much money are we spending...

EdTech, Safety, and Filtering Q&A with Debbie Karcher

Edtech student safety expert joins Lightspeed Systems Former CIO of Miami Dade County Schools (and ed-tech rockstar) Debbie Karcher has joined Lightspeed! We’re all very excited about how...

World Class Technical Support from Code Ranch

Lightspeed opens Code Ranch office in Austin, TX If you follow Lightspeed on Facebook or Twitter, you’ve seen our newest office, Code Ranch, be built from an empty field into a state-of-t...

A Better Kind of Classroom Management Software

“The teachers have fallen in love with Relay Classroom! We cannot live without it!” “Our teachers have felt empowered by the Relay Classroom tool which has allowed them to manage Chromebooks in...

The Revolutionary New Way for Schools to Optimize Tech Use: Introducing Lightspeed Analytics

Optimize your school district's technology with Lightspeed Analytics Education is increasingly going digital. School leaders used to dream of putting a device in each student’s hands; now...

New Year, New Filter: How to Get Smarter Filtering in 2019

Let’s make 2019 the year all your filtering resolutions come true! We’ve been talking to a lot of schools about filtering, and here’s what they say they want to do in 2019: Spend less ti...

Do Tumblr’s New Policies Make It Appropriate for K-12 Schools?

This week, Tumblr announced that it would be making a huge change to its community policies. CEO Jeff D’Onofrio said Tumblr is “no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual conte...

How Lightspeed Revolutionizes SSL Decryption in Schools

Does any of this sound familiar? “I made one small error in a PAC file and my whole school lost internet access.” “Certificate management is my biggest challenge.” “SSL decryption is nece...

How Lightspeed Keeps Students Safer

Web filtering in today’s schools is about more than blocking and allowing websites; it’s also about keeping students safe — from inappropriate content as well as from things like cyberbullying...

Top 5 Ways to Boost Cybersecurity in Your School Today

K-12 school cybersecurity tips This is a scary time in cybersecurity for K-12 schools. By 2021, a majority of American schools had experienced a security breach, and now, in 2022, the edu...

3 Genius Back-to-School Tips From the Lightspeed Community

Lightspeed back-to-school Tips It’s that time of year again! Whether you have a few weeks of summer vacation left or your first day of school is right around the corner, August is a busy...

4 Reasons Lightspeed Platform Reports Rock

In a recent customer survey, we asked the question, “What do you like most about Lightspeed Systems?” One of the top answers was our products’ reporting. We’ve continued to optimize the reporti...

3 Things I Learned During a Summer at Lightspeed Systems

Today, July 26, is the inaugural National Intern Day. I want to celebrate by talking about my amazing experience this summer: interning at Lightspeed Systems. I got to spend eight weeks in Aust...

This Competing School Filter Blocks Only 40 Percent of Pornographic Websites

There’s been some disparaging content about “URL-based filtering” lately – suggesting that it isn’t able to effectively block without over-blocking. At Lightspeed Systems, we understand that wh...

Lightspeed Filter™ Now Available for Every OS

School web filtering for every OS is here After months of testing, pilot studies, and rigorous feedback processes, Lightspeed Filter’s Smart Agents are here! We’re happy to announce Smart...

Thinking About Cloud Filtering? 10 Things You Need to Know About Switching From Hardware

Have you thought about cloud filtering? 94% of school districts surveyed in COSN’s Annual Infrastructure Survey say they leverage some type of cloud-based software system. With the popularity o...

How to Easily Decrypt SSL on Any Device

SSL Decryption for Education Hate setting up proxy servers, trust certificates, or PAC files for SSL decryption? You’re not alone; SSL Decryption for Education is a time-consuming, costly...

Your Biggest Questions About SmartAgents™ Answered

SmartAgents for Windows and Mac FAQs We’ve just announced our new SmartAgents for Windows and Mac, making our cloud filter, Lightspeed Filter (formerly Relay), a smart solution that goes...

What’s So Smart About Smart Agents?

Smart Agents power Relay’s multi-OS content filtering. But what makes Smart Agents so smart? Self-Contained SSL Decryption Decrypting SSL has been one of the top challenges for schools in web f...

Using Data for Good: How Lightspeed Reports & Insights Save Lives

Lightspeed reports is one of key supports in supporting Lightspeed Systems’ goal to provide schools with smart, advanced tools to help keep students protected from harm. Technology plays a crit...

Why Schools Choose Lightspeed Systems™ Over GoGuardian, Securly, and ContentKeeper

As the needs of your district evolve, it’s critical to find a web filter that adapts to your needs and the emerging K-12 technologies you need to integrate.

Your Top Questions About Relay Smart Agents, Answered

What are IT’s biggest challenges with filtering today? Last week, we hosted a special webinar on the future of filtering. Here’s what attendees said are their biggest filtering headaches: 64%:...

3 Ways Lightspeed’s Classroom Stands Out in K-12 Ed-Tech

Why your district should be using Lightspeed Classroom Classroom learning and device tech are evolving faster than ever. Now, it’s essential to empower teachers with advanced tools and so...

Filtering Current Events to Promote Safe Digital Learning

Shielding kids online can be a very daunting task for parents and schools, where every scroll brings the potential for a surprising news headline or a viral video. That’s why Lightspeed Filter™...

Who’s Winning the Device Wars?

Evaluating Education Devices Here’s our take The device wars are heating up in education. On Tuesday, Apple announced its new iPad, complete with Apple Pencil support and a special discou...

The Most Popular Websites in Every Grade Level

Last year, we told you about most popular websites among K-12 students: We learned Google dominates the K-12 device space — particularly due to the large number of Chromebooks in education — and…
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