Secure student devices & ensure CIPA compliance with currentware

Effortlessly Block Inappropriate Content With the Category Web Filtering Solution

BrowseControl’s web filtering category database provides you with a convenient way to block millions of websites across over 100 URL categories.

Easily block users from accessing inappropriate content including social media sites, porn, games, known virus-infected websites, and more!

• Inappropriate Content: Prevent minors from accessing adult-oriented websites including pornography, adult dating, drugs, hate sites, and chat rooms
• Internet Distractions: Stop students from disrupting their learning environment with distracting games, social media sites, and video sites
• Easy Exceptions: Allow web filtering exceptions for permitted domains while blocking a target category, such as allowing access to LinkedIn while blocking Social Media

Learn More: BrowseControl’s Web Content Categories

Protect Students and School Networks Without Blocking Legitimate Research

Over blocking while using web filtering for schools and libraries harms education; when you implement web content filtering policies that are inflexible and overly aggressive it can unintentionally generate false flags and block access to legitimate research.

CurrentWare’s web filtering for schools can be adjusted in just a few clicks, allowing school administrators to adjust their web filtering policies as soon as over blocking is detected.

• Staff Access: Use CurrentWare’s Operator Accounts to provide staff with the ability to adjust their classroom’s web filtering policies without giving them access to other admin features
• Ease-of-Use: Once deployed adjusting student and computer web filtering policies is as easy as a few clicks, allowing IT staff to delegate the management of internet use policies with minimal support
• Custom Policies: Prevent young students from accessing inappropriate content while providing older students with more flexible access for legitimate research purposes

Advantageous Pricing for Education & Nonprofits

School districts are forced to do more with less. CurrentWare’s computer monitoring and web filtering for schools provides a cost-effective way to manage technology in your school network without straining budgetary needs.

• Education Discounts: To help manage EdTech costs, CurrentWare offers educational institutions 10% off of any of the products in the CurrentWare Suite.
• Bundled Solutions: CurrentWare’s classroom management solutions can be purchased individually for the greatest flexibility or as a full suite for the best value.
• Volume Licensing: Volume-based licensing provides advantageous pricing for schools with large quantities of devices that they need to monitor and restrict.
• Prepurchase Discounts: Pricing breaks are available for schools and libraries that sign up for multi-year plans, or have future growth planned and can commit to bulk orders.

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CIPA Compliant Internet Monitoring—BrowseReporter

CurrentWare’s BrowseReporter allows schools to implement and maintain CIPA compliance by monitoring their students’ use of the school’s technology.

Along with CIPA-compliant monitoring, BrowseReporter gives you access to additional features such as real-time internet monitoring and detailed internet activity reports through a centralized console.

With BrowseReporter, schools are provided with detailed reports on the sites and applications used by students with metrics such as total browsing time, sites visited, and keywords searched.

What is the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA)?

“The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was enacted by Congress in 2000 to address concerns about children’s access to obscene or harmful content over the Internet. CIPA imposes certain requirements on schools or libraries that receive discounts for Internet access or internal connections through the E-rate program – a program that makes certain communications services and products more affordable for eligible schools and libraries. In early 2001, the FCC issued rules implementing CIPA and provided updates to those rules in 2011.” – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

The goal of CIPA is to limit children’s access to obscene or harmful content over the Internet by incentivizing public libraries and K-12 schools to implement a “technology protection measure that protects against access to visual depictions that are obscene, child pornography, or harmful to minors” such as CurrentWare’s CIPA-compliant web filtering for schools and libraries.

How Can Schools & Libraries Become CIPA Compliant?

Schools and libraries must certify they are in compliance with CIPA before they can receive E-rate funding.

To become CIPA compliant, public libraries will need:

1. Internet safety policies that dictate safe internet practices
2. Internet filtering technologies to proactively prevent exposure to obscene visual content (referred to as a “technology protection measure” outlined under CIPA)

Schools have two additional CIPA requirements:

1. Methods of monitoring the online activities of minors
2. Education to minors about appropriate online behavior including cyberbullying awareness and expectations for conduct when using social networks or chat rooms.

Learn More: Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), Federal Communications Commission

Fight Distractions for Effective Classroom Management

Implement computer monitoring & web filtering for schools to defeat distractions, increase student engagement, and empower teachers to teach confidently with technology.

• Block Distractions: Block PC games, inappropriate content, social media sites, and more to keep students focused on their tasks
• Time-Based Controls: Apply web filtering rules based on schedules to accommodate breaks, after-school programs, and clubs
• Disable Internet: In just a few clicks you can block internet access entirely, allowing students to use their laptops to take notes without the temptation to browse the web

Prevent Cheating in Online Tests

Laptops and desktops are critical learning tools, but without internet filtering it’s far too easy for them to cheat on their tests. Take back control over student PC use with CurrentWare’s computer monitoring and web filtering for schools.

• Internet Control: Allow access to only a select list of URLs while blocking all others to ensure that students are only accessing permitted materials
• Monitor PC Use: Get near-real-time visibility into student PC usage to ensure that they are not misusing their computers during instruction
• Live Screen Monitoring: Monitor student desktops within your LAN in real time with a live feed of what they’re doing on their computer

Protect Devices Anytime, Anywhere

To truly support remote learning and 1:1 device programs you need computer monitoring and web filtering for schools that ensures student safety no matter what network your students use.

• Anti-Tampering: The CurrentWare Client stays on the student’s computer and cannot be uninstalled or disabled without administrator access
• Scheduled Monitoring: Disable internet monitoring outside of schools hours to give students the freedom to browse without data collection
• Endpoint Security: Protect endpoint devices with CurrentWare’s robust solutions for PC activity monitoring, USB device control, and web filtering for schools

Easily Customize Web Filtering Policies

Easily provide access to bona fide research—without exposing students to adult content.

CurrentWare’s granular tools and user-friendly interface allow IT admins to delegate adjustment of web filtering policies to teachers and other trusted staff members.

• Request Access: When a student tries to access a blocked website they can click a link to request access
• Policy Groups: Apply unique policies to groups of students and devices to give mature age groups greater freedom without exposing young students to inappropriate content
• Operator Accounts: Admins can selectively allow staff to modify web filtering policies for multiple devices without being given access to all of the admin console

Enforcing Internet Use Policies Has Never Been Easier

Our student computer monitoring and internet filtering software gives you detailed control and visibility of web activity, making it the perfect tool for enforcing internet use policies.

• Collect Evidence: Maintain records of students attempting to visit inappropriate websites on school devices
• Internet Security: Improve security with triggered alerts every time your students or staff visit high-risk websites including porn, torrents, and file sharing websites
• Filtering & Monitoring: Track student computer activity to collect evidence of unwanted computer usage then block unwanted websites and applications based on the reports