The Lightspeed Platform
Lightspeed Systems gives leaders across the district the visibility and control they need. With powerful integrations between products, the Lightspeed platform helps break down silos and foster seamless collaboration so everyone is working together toward student success.
A Smarter, Unified System.
EdTech Balance
Ensure balanced technology use with screen time insights that show how devices are used across your district and classroom controls that keep learning focused.
- Track screen time by grade, campus, app, and time of day, including during and after school hours.
- Spot usage trends, top apps, and non-educational activity to inform training, intervention, and policy decisions.
- Keep students on task by viewing screens, closing distracting tabs, locking devices, and setting web rules.
- Support active instruction with screen sharing, student messaging, link sharing, class merging, and co-teacher controls.
AI Guardrails
Adopt AI with confidence using tools built on our SMART AI framework—Safe, Managed, Appropriate, Reported, and Transparent.
- See which students use AI tools, review prompts and conversations to understand intent, and identify behavior patterns that support informed policies and responsible AI use.
- Understand AI usage at the district, campus, grade, and class level.
- Manage AI access with flexible policies.
- Evaluate AI tools for privacy, risk, and instructional value.
- Support responsible classroom use with teacher visibility and controls.
- Monitor and report student AI activity to identify safety concerns, escalate risks, and communicate guardrails.
Student Safety
Spot early signs of crisis with online safety intelligence and anonymous reporting that empower timely, life-saving intervention.
- Detect signs of self-harm, violence, bullying, and crisis across web, search, files, and apps.
- Provide a confidential channel for students and staff to safely report safety concerns.
- Capture full context—screenshots, browsing history, notes—for confident response.
- Expand staff capacity with our expert 24/7/365 human review and rapid alert escalation.
- Enhance campus safety with visibility into student movement through digital hall pass tracking.
App Governance
Ensure compliance and efficient collaboration with the most complete end-to-end app governance solution.
- Capture teacher app requests and route them to IT, curriculum, and privacy reviewers.
- Spot usage trends, top apps, and non-educational activity to inform training, intervention, and policy decisions.
- Keep students on task by viewing screens, closing distracting tabs, locking devices, and setting web rules.
- Support active instruction with screen sharing, student messaging, link sharing, class merging, and co-teacher controls.
IT Management
Protect your district’s technology with the visibility and controls to secure devices, meet compliance, and keep learning systems running reliably.
- Identify security risks, filter bypass attempts, and unauthorized access across managed, BYOD, and IoT devices.
- Simplify compliance with data privacy and tools to efficiently vet apps and block those that don’t meet requirements.
- Maintain device health and inventory through centralized configuration and monitoring.
- Prevent app outages, security incidents, and network issues with proactive oversight.
- Ensure scalable and efficient mobile device management across all operating systems.
ROI Optimization
Turn data into smarter decisions with clear visibility into how technology is actually used —and the ROI it delivers.
- Get the most complete view of app and device activity across device types and OSes, from district to campus, grade, class, and student level.
- Cut spend by spotting unused and redundant apps.
- Monitor instructional vs. non-instructional screen time to support balanced use.
- Align departments around a shared source of truth.
Unified Workflows
Lightspeed solutions work together to ensure end-to-end edtech management. Cross-product workflows keep IT, administrators, and teachers aligned with automated controls — so teams are efficient, accountable, and proactive instead of reactive.
One Lightspeed
One login.
For every product.
SSO across the entire platform, enforced through Google or Microsoft 365. Your team signs in once and had access to every tool they’re authorized to use — nothing more, nothing less.
One vendor.
One contact. One team.
One procurement process, one renewal, one support queue that already knows your district. No coordinating between multiple vendors when something goes wrong or needs to change.
Built for K-12.
Not retrofitted from enterprise.
Every product is designed for school districts, not adapted from enterprise software. One agent runs across Chromebooks, iPads, Windows, and Macs, because that’s what districts actually have.
All for One Low Price.
One bundle costs less than stitching point solutions together.
Student Safety
- Student Safety
- Digital safety monitoring
- Social media monitoring & alerts
- AI activity monitoring & alerts
- Anonymous reporting/tipline
Filtering & Classroom
- Filtering & Classroom
- Hall pass
- Parent Portal
- Screen time analytics
- Content filter, devices & network
- Classroom & screen monitoring
Device Management
- Device Management
- MDM / device management
- Device, battery, & system health
- Device geo-location
- Device missing mode
- Wi-fi / connectivity reporting
App Intelligence
- App Intelligence
- App usage & ROI reporting
- App license management
- Vetting, security, & privacy rating
- DPA & policy management
- API / data warehouse integration
