Education

Web Filtering for Schools: Keeping Students Safe Online

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 web filtering for schools with 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 schools.

Education Challenges

10-20%

of children and adolescents experience mental health conditions globally.

National Library of Medicine

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 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.

Don’t Take Our Word For It. Take Theirs.

Trusted by Customers Worldwide

“For use, flexibility was key. That’s not an easy process to find a solution that will work with every device…The fact that your (Netsweeper) solution provides support for all of those, was huge.”

Todd Mein, Technical Support Manager Shiawassee RESD

“Netsweeper has been able to demonstrate a strong skill set including project scoping/management, development, deployment, support and supplying products suitable for the EdTech environment. Our relationship has gone from strength to strength…”

Jim Fessey, Head of IT Co-op Academies Trust

“It was the type of ease that we were looking for. We needed something that was going to filter based off of different platforms, whether it was a Chromebook, a Windows device, a MacBook, or an iPad.”

Jackie Carstens, Director of Technology Shiawassee RESD

Supporting Products

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.

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nClient

Extend web filtering and digital monitoring to remote devices (Windows, macOS, 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.

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onGuard

onGuard proactively monitors student activity to detect at-risk activity in real-time. Not limited to text-only content, OCR and active system monitoring screen captures and audits content across the broadest range of media, applications, and devices.

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