Integrations

Clever and ClassLink are too possible integrations to sync teachers, classrooms, and students. For more information on Clever and ClassLink, please navigate to the respective articles below:

For more information on Integrations, click here. 

Chromebooks Only Toggle is now in Org Management under Products > General

We recommend enabling this toggle if Chromebooks are the only devices where users should ever be monitored by GoGuardian. 

Teacher Settings in Org Management are now consolidated under a single tab

With the addition of more items to the Products tab in org management, this tab was becoming crowded with too many options for users to navigate between. All Teacher related products are grouped together now. 

Dashboard now shows up-to-the minute online student information

To see this in action, log in to GoGuardian Admin and visit the Reporting Dashboard.

Custom Block Page in Admin 2.0

Under Configuration > Global Config, a customized block page can be used for your entire organization. Some popular options we have seen is adding a Google form or survey for website requests to their block page or adding a school logo.

Click here to learn more about custom block page!

GoGuardian Teacher

Refined Navigation

The global navigation, the menu that pops out from clicking the hamburger menu in the top left, was often very cluttered for teachers, especially if you had many classes and scenes. This required scrolling to access different parts of the nav and also hid links to student reports and email preferences if the list of classes/scenes got too long.

The new global nav is significantly less cluttered -- this was commonly reported and enjoyed by teachers the in user testing we conducted.

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New Enlarged Student Screen

Our new GoGuardian Teacher UI gives teachers access to commands from an enlarged screen view, which makes it easier to find commands and interact with your student.

Students' Chrome tabs are now listed on the right side for easy access to view what websites a student has open:

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Commands From Student Tile

To perform a command for an individual student other than lock screen, you used to have to click the "All" checkbox, and then deselect many students (it selects all students by default) and finally click one of the gray commands.

All teacher commands are now accessible by clicking the three-dot contextual menu in the top right corner of the student tile. This includes Chat, as long as it is Enabled.

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Easier to Archive and Restore Classrooms

You used to have to (1) click a classroom card (2) navigate to the settings tab and (3) find the archive classroom button. Now, the archive button is directly on the classroom card.

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Active Class Session Shortcut

We discovered that the most common path in GoGuardian Teacher is to go from different pages in Teacher to your active Classroom session. We've made this much easier, and you'll no longer have to click on the hamburger menu and then your active Classroom session. Instead, click on the green text of your active Classroom to be taken directly into that session!

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Timeline View Improvements

You can now use side-scroll through your Session Timeline in addition to clicking and dragging. This also allows us to use smooth scrolling and momentum, meaning the faster you swipe your fingers on the trackpad, the faster you scroll through the timeline.

The timeline view should also load faster now due to an upgrade to back-end services used to render the timeline. Timeline controls stick to the top of the page when you scroll down to see students below the fold.

Clicking Favicons Opens Up Tabs in a New Window

Teachers often click a student's screen, view the other tabs they have open, and then open one or more of those tabs in a new window to see what they're looking at. The new version makes that process much faster as they can click the favicons to open those tabs in a new window without having to enlarge the student's screen.

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See Who Imported a Google Classroom and When

Many classes have co-teachers that share a Google Classroom. A Google Classroom can only be imported once, which can be confusing for the teacher that tries to import the Google Classroom after it has already been imported. Providing more information about who imported the class and when should resolve this confusion.

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Consolidated Account Page

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District Quick Lists Created by Super User

Super Users will be able to manage Quick Lists through Org Management, and they will be available to Teachers when creating scenes. To make this process even easier, admins will be able to upload and download lists using a CSV.

Click here to learn more about Quick Lists!

GoGuardian Beacon

"Why" an Alert was Generated

We've introduced the Rationale tab to give users more visibility into understanding why an alert was generated.

When clicking into an alert, the contents of the Rationale tab will be listed including Screenshots of activity prior and after an alert, as well as a specific screenshot taken when the alert was generated.

Words on the Page will display the text found within the page, along with highlighted terms that may have been related to self-harm or suicide. Users also have the option to download a PDF of the Words on the Page from an alert.

More information on this feature can be found here: Understanding Why an Alert was Generated

Notifications by Phase

Users are now able to configure Beacon alert notifications by Phase. If you and your staff decide not to send Notifications for certain phases, such as Suicide Research, this can be toggled off under the Staff Notifications settings area of Beacon. 

More information on this feature can be found here: Staff Escalation List

Filtering the Beacon Alert Dashboard

Individual users in Beacon can now sort which alerts they'd like to see on their dashboard by selecting only the Phases they'd like to see from the filtering options at the top of the dashboard. 

Additionally, users can narrow down the time frame of alerts using the date range picker in the top right of their dashboard. More information on these features can be found here: Beacon Dashboard and Alert Filtering

Beacon Grouped Alerts

You will now be able to review and take action on a group of alerts rather than individually assessing each individual alert. Once an action is taken on a grouped alert, the alert group will close, and any subsequent activity on the same URL and Predicted Phase combination will form a new group of alerts. This will ensure that any subsequent activity will still produce a notification and require review.

For the full article on Beacon Grouped Alerts, click HERE.