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Solutions for Education

Educators are adopting eLearning strategies to extend the learning opportunities of students in the K-12 sector around the world. This trend requires IT managers and senior educators to be aware of and address the issues that can result in expanding the need for student Internet access.

Typical Challenges

• Student online safety is critical. Protecting them from inappropriate content, solicitation, personal identity theft, malicious web proxies and cyberbullying are all serious issues to consider.
• Overall budgetary constraints have affected spend and staffing in the area of IT. In many cases, less money and fewer staff results in the need for more economical systems that are still suitable for requirements of each region.
• Network bandwidth is expensive. High bandwidth sites are resulting in network latency and that must be controlled.
• Solutions installed must be compliant to local regulations. In some cases, these rules are directly linked to funding or governmental refunds that cannot be overlooked such as CIPA (US) and Becta (UK).

Features & Benefits Provided by Netsweeper

• Enable student achievement by providing safe learning environment.
• Centralized web-based administration tools empower IT Managers to control Internet access and activity on a global, group or per user level while also delegating access controls to other named staff, such as specific teachers.
  
• Empower teachers with detailed reporting on student Internet activity to ensure usage is positively impacting student performance.
• Technology to manage Internet access on mobile laptops whether they are on or off the network, thus protecting devices from infection and students from online threats regardless of where or how they connect to the Internet.
• Comprehensive data on all Internet user activity to be utilized in the creation of reports designed to justify investments in network operations, eLearning initiatives and paid-for content.
• Protect students from web-borne threats such as viruses, malicious anonymous proxies and inappropriate content.
  
• Ability to better manage network bandwidth by controlling access to high bandwidth resources.

Netsweeper Internet content filtering solutions for Education are CIPA and BECTA compliant and are designed to put the IT authorities in control at all educational levels. Blocking access to sites with inappropriate content, unsupervised social networks, high bandwidth applications and anonymous proxies, will ensure students remain safe and focused on curriculum activities.


Whether you are looking to filter a state or district network or even an independent school, Netsweeper offers solutions that are flexible and easy to navigate.

To learn more, please contact us at Sales or access our Request a Consultation form.

Testaments of our successful implementations include MOREnet, Prince George's County, and Synetrix.