GoGuardian

Top of the Line Chromebook Monitoring Solution

Kommentare: We have had great success in our 1:1 program with GoGuardian. We have been able to reach out to families when a child was endangered, and our staff is feeling very comfortable using devices in the classroom.

Vorteile:

GoGuardian provides many different features that make implementing a 1:1 Chromebook program fairly easy. The filtering solution is fairly quick and easy to learn and can work off-site. They also have Smart Alerts which notifies us when a student is doing something that could cause self-harm or is looking at pornography. Lastly, the teacher portal allows teachers to monitor and easily step in to help students stay engaged.

Nachteile:

The teacher side of things could use some improvements in the way that it interacts with the Chromebooks, although this might require a different type of installation. It would be great to get a constant live snapshot of Chromebook devices rather than just the current tab.

GoGuardian Teacher

Kommentare: This tool is amazing, and most of our teachers use it.

Vorteile:

GoGuardian is extremely user friendly. I sent one text to a teacher saying, go to this site and login this way. I then stopped in an hour later and she was chatting with students, setting up scenes, locking kids out of their devices. She needed no training. BUT if there is a need, they also have amazing tutorials to show how to do things.

Nachteile:

Its great, but we do seem to have students that can figure out ways around it.

I hate it a lot

Vorteile:

Nothing, Im a student that uses it and I really dislike go guardian.

Nachteile:

It snitches on me and all my friends, It shows my history report to my teachers, It allows them to track my screen, I mean do they just not trust me anymore as a student?

Excellent Device-Monitoring Program

Kommentare: I am a huge advocate for GoGuardian. Through it, my class is more efficient, more on topic, and better focused. In an era of education where every student uses a device, GoGuardian is quickly becoming essential.

Vorteile:

GoGuardian does an excellent job of allowing me to monitor and have some control over the devices of my students. The monitoring itself is great, but my favorite parts of GoGuardian are the automatic and manual tab controls. At certain times throughout the day (start of lessons), I can have specific tabs automatically open and others not be allowed. These small controls help my classes to run much more smoothly.

Nachteile:

GoGuardian has a bit of a habit of slowing down, freezing, or being unreliable. Though this has considerably improved in the last year, there are still lessons in which it is unavailable or experiencing slow downs. This used to be a larger concern and doesn't happen much anymore, but it is still very inconvenient when it happens. I know that there are issues and nothing works perfectly all the time, but the dependability of the product is really important.

Great product!

Kommentare: GoGuardian Teacher has been a great product and is loved by our teachers. They can choose to monitor or restrict Chromebooks. We use GoGuardian Admin to monitor Smart Alerts and track lost Chromebooks.

Vorteile:

GoGuardian gives you the ability to easily manage your Chromebooks in the classroom. It allows our teachers the freedom to teach instead of monitoring devices.

Nachteile:

There is not much to dislike. They recently added a feature to allow Admins to log in as teachers to troubleshoot issues. That was a previous complaint that has now been addressed.