The Lightspeed Blog

EdTech, Safety, and Filtering Q and A with Debbie Karcher

Former CIO of Miami Dade County Schools (and ed-tech rockstar) Debbie Karcher has joined Lightspeed! We kicked things off with a little Q&A with Debbie to talk ed-tech, student safety,

World Class Technical Support from Code Ranch

If you follow Lightspeed on Facebook or Twitter, you’ve seen our newest office, Code Ranch, be built from an empty field into a state-of-the-art multi-building campus outside Austin, TX.

A Better Kind of Classroom Management Software

“The teachers have fallen in love with Relay Classroom! We cannot live without it!”

The Revolutionary New Way for Schools to Optimize Tech Use: Introducing Lightspeed Analytics

Education is increasingly going digital. School leaders used to dream of putting a device in each student’s hands; now, 74% of K-12 schools have more than one device per student.

New Year, New Filter: How to Get Smarter Filtering in 2019

We’ve been talking to a lot of schools about filtering, and here’s what they say they want to do in 2019:

Do Tumblr’s New Policies Make It Appropriate for K-12 Schools?

How Lightspeed Revolutionizes SSL Decryption in Schools

“I made one small error in a PAC file and my whole school lost internet access.

How Lightspeed Keeps Students Safer

Web filtering in today’s schools is about more than blocking and allowing websites; it’s also about keeping students safe — from inappropriate content as well as from things like…

Top 5 Ways to Boost Cybersecurity in Your School Today

This is a scary time in cybersecurity for K-12 schools.