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Coronavirus, School Closures, and Lightspeed Filter™

Many districts have relied on their firewall for content filtering and reporting.

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5 Signs It’s Time to Upgrade Your School’s Web Filtering

Web filtering software for schools is about more than being CIPA-compliant.

Rising Suicide Rates

Over the weekend I read this article from EdWeek about rising suicide rates among young kids.

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Top Lightspeed Filter™ Features You May Not Be Using

Lightspeed Filter does a lot — and we’re on a mission to optimize EdTech Lightspeed Filter all the time. That means there are probably some features you’re not even using.

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Five Ways to Maximize Class Time with Lightspeed Classroom Management™

As someone who’s been the teacher, I know how excited teachers and students are to revamp the learning process.

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4 Steps to Distance Learning Success

You’re buying devices. In fact, schools purchase about 30 million devices each year! Wow.

Lightspeed Filter™ Reports Just Got Better with the Web Activity Log

Because of their breadth and actionability, Lightspeed Filter reports are already one of the things that set us apart and make us the top filter in K12 schools.

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4 Ways Schools Can Drive Ed-Tech ROI and Compliance With Analytics

It’s something we hear from a lot of schools: first came all the devices, then came a flurry of apps and applications and digital tools and curriculum to use with

DNS over HTTPS – What Schools Need to Know about Web Filtering with DoH

Recently, Mozilla announced its plans to implement the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol by default in the Firefox browser starting in late September.