Lamar County School District Chooses Lightspeed Systems® to Filter and Protect Student Chromebooks

PURVIS, MS. — Mississippi’s Lamar County School District has selected edtech company Sistemi di velocità della luce to provide device filtering and monitoring services for the district’s 19 schools. Filtro Lightspeed™ has been implemented to protect and monitor more than 7,600 student Chromebooks across the district, blocking dangerous web content while also monitoring student activity to help district staff identify suspicious behavior and safety threats.

Lightspeed has filtered K-12 schools for almost 20 years and has provided content filtering services for Lamar County School District’s devices since 2013. By implementing Lightspeed Filter, a multi-OS cloud filtering and monitoring software solution, the district will benefit from features such as:

• Avviso di velocità della luce™ — receive immediate alerts when students enter or browse suspicious and troubling terms/content, allowing staff to intervene or escalate
• Simple SSL filtering — filter SSL sites like Google and YouTube without having to use proxies, PAC files or certificates
• Generatore di report per i genitori: carica un semplice file CSV degli indirizzi e-mail dei genitori per automatizzare la consegna dei report sulle attività dei dispositivi degli studenti nelle caselle di posta dei genitori
• Blocchi: impedisci agli studenti di accedere a Internet se tentano di accedere a troppi siti bloccati consecutivamente
• Smart Play — the game-changing YouTube management feature that allows students to access tens of millions of educational videos (and none of the bad stuff)

“Lightspeed Filter is a turning point in the way we protect our students from the dangers of the Internet,” Lamar County School District Director of Technology Ross Randall said. “With the deployment of Lightspeed Filter, I can now allow my students to access useful content that I would have otherwise blocked due to the inability to granularly filter out the bad. I am confident that my students are in a much safer environment, and with the ability to flag terms I feel we can offer data that can be used in behavioral interventions.”

“After working with the district for more than five years, we have seen how devoted Ross and the rest of the staff are to giving students an advanced, 20th-century learning experience,” Lightspeed Systems President and CEO Brian Thomas said. “By implementing Lightspeed Filter, the district is not only safe from inappropriate and malicious online content, it will also be able to help students who need intervention.”

Informazioni su Lightspeed SystemsLightspeed Systems collabora con le scuole per rendere l'apprendimento sicuro, mobile e facilmente gestibile. In partnership con 6.500 distretti negli Stati Uniti e 25.000 scuole in tutto il mondo, Lightspeed Systems offre soluzioni integrate per reti scolastiche K-12 più intelligenti: Lightspeed Filter, Gestione dei dispositivi mobili Lightspeed™, Gestione della classe Lightspeed™, E Analisi Lightspeed™Per saperne di più, visita https://www.lightspeedsystems.com.

About Lamar County School DistrictThe mission of the Lamar County School’s Technology Department is to support and encourage the integration and successful application of educational technology into the areas of curriculum, instruction, and administration. Located in Lamar County, Mississippi, the district serves more than 10,700 students in 19 elementary, middle, and high schools across Baxterville, Purvis, Hattiesburg, Lumberton, and Sumrall. To learn more, visit https://www.lamarcountyschools.org.