Education

Is social media jeopardizing student mental health?

Curb Exposure and Prioritize Digital Safety with Real-Time Web Filtering

Remote learning. Cyberbullying. Policy compliance. Self-harm and potential violence. As a school or district IT administrator, your list of challenges keeps growing. Netsweeper delivers the flexibility and control you need to adapt instantly and proactively to the next digital dilemma. Guided by our decades-long educator partnerships, we develop the most effective, easy-to-use web filtering technologies for K-12.

Supports Mental Health and Physical Safety

Monitor content for red flags and detect problematic online activity in real time, so you can intervene before incidents occur. Our AI-powered web filtering solution analyzes, filters, and blocks harmful or inappropriate online content. Meanwhile, simple, yet customizable reports expose activities that require additional monitoring and action. Administrators can also configure the system to meet the needs of individual schools.

Secures Devices On and Off Campus

Extend remote web filtering and policy enforcement to every device and operating system (Windows, Mac, Chrome, Android, and iOS), anywhere. Integrated into Netsweeper’s core platform, our onGuard technology works online and offline, scanning internet and desktop content as well as user-submitted data in real time—even when disconnected from a Netsweeper network. This enables schools to equip students with devices for remote learning while protecting them from harmful content and cyber threats such as ransomware.

Controls Social Media Use

Limit access to popular student apps like TikTok, YouTube and Twitter easily. Our policy management tool provides safe online access without over-blocking, while giving IT administrators control of app- and web-based social media platforms. This allows schools to select which features they want to block based on their specific needs and criteria such as age, application and time of day.

Reduces Administrative Burden

Simplify management and enforce policies such as CIPA with centralized, customizable tools. Our database of more than 3 billion URLs undergoes real-time, dynamic updates to education-specific categories such as hate speech, weapons, cyberbullying and substance abuse. These categories are AI-populated and not based on static lists, so they deliver full protection from the newest online threats. To expedite and simplify tasks, administrators can set their own filtering policies through our easy-to-use interface, and get detailed reporting via a simple visual dashboard for quick analysis of school or district information.

What about Classroom Management for Digital Learning?

Our classroom management solution helps teachers engage learners, control classes, and share content with students on and off campus. From one-on-one learning to group collaboration, educators will get advanced, yet easy-to-use technology that’s ideal for this generation of digital natives. Solution benefits include:

Cloud-based or locally hosted implementation
Compatibility with Windows, Mac, Chrome, and other devices
Scalable to your IT environment
Easy installation/onboarding

Want to help educators maximize class time? Take advantage of the latest features, such as messaging capabilities, screen sharing, and safety filters.

The Netsweeper Difference for Education

Granular Social Media Control

Manage web- and app-based activity on social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok and Twitter through one interface.

Most Accurate Web Filtering Solution Available for K-12

Perform dynamic, real-time filtering with our AI-based content categorization platform.

Advanced Reporting and Monitoring

Choose pre-configured or customizable tools for detailed logging, reporting and analytics.

Remote Filtering

Secure every device and operating system at any location—even off the campus network.

Flexible, Unified and Scalable

Manage multiple schools through a single interface, delegate administration and scale on demand to meet changing needs.

SafeSearch Enforcement

Block inappropriate/explicit content across popular web search engines, including Google, Bing and YouTube.

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nFilter

An AI-driven web filtering platform that uses dynamic categorization to scan and sort content on billions of websites, preventing new threats efficiently and in real-time. Additional benefits include flexible social media and content controls, multi-tenancy, and comprehensive reporting, as well as painless deployment and straightforward management.

nFilter

Dynamic, real-time web filtering using Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Carrier-grade performance
Flexible social media and content controls
Multi-tenancy
Scalable and easy to manage/deploy
Comprehensive reporting

nClient

Extend web filtering and digital monitoring to remote devices (Windows, Mac OSX, Chrome, Android, and iOS), even when users are not connected to a Netsweeper-filtered network. nClient works seamlessly with nFilter, so devices are managed using the same central policy. All filtering occurs on the device, so no VPN is required.

nClient

Dynamic web filtering for remote devices
Works on every device/OS
Single, central policy management
Online and offline protection and monitoring

onGuard

Integrating seamlessly with the core nFilter platform, onGuard uses active system monitoring, including optical character recognition, to scan content and detect at-risk activity in real time. If potential risks are identified, an alert is sent to an administrator who reviews the information and determines whether further action is necessary. At-risk online activity is recorded for case tracking and escalation processing via the onGuard dashboard.

onGuard

AI-driven monitoring and alerts for at-risk behavior
Seamless integration with nFilter
Real-time scanning and reporting
Intuitive dashboards
Online and offline monitoring
Trend analysis/data charting

Multiple Deployment Options

Why upgrade now? You’ll get a K-12 solution that’s better, faster, easier and more cost effective. Plus, our solutions integrate seamlessly with your existing network infrastructure, so there’s no reason to wait.

Choose the deployment option that's right for your district or school:

In-line Appliance • Cloud Agents • Hybrid Cloud • Layer 7 • VM Infrastructure • DNS • GRE Tunneling • IPsec

Multiple Deployment Options