GoGuardian Tips

How To's

Edit the schedule for the class:

-->Select the class you want to edit.

-->Select Settings (Third tab in the center of the blue line at top)

-->Select Scheduling (You may need to scroll down, or the schedule may pop up)

-->Edit the schedule

Delete a student from a class:

Follow the directions provided at this link. If you added your students through Google Classroom, be sure to follow the directions for removing using Google Classroom.

Removing Student from GoGuardian Classroom

Student showing as offline during a session:

-->Have student sign out of device

-->Student should remove account from device

-->select down arrow to the right of student name

-->select remove

-->remove user

-->Power off the device

-->Restart and add new student

Once all of the extensions have been loaded the student should show up on your dashboard as active.

What our teachers are sharing about GoGuardian

D. Fiddler reported:

This is what I have discovered after practicing with three classes when using "scenes" in Go Guardian:

First Class: The students were already actively working on a Google Document in Classroom. I implemented a "scene" that would only give them access to Study Island and a dictionary page. I "thought" they would still be able to access Classroom, but this was NOT the case. It closed ALL of their current tabs with the "Uh, oh!" page.

Second Class: I added Google Classroom to the exceptions and updated the scene page. If the students did not have the tab already in use, it would not allow them to open a new tab once I applied the scene.

Third Class: The students were instructed to open all of the tabs that we would be using that was acceptable and applied to the scene. After the tabs were open, I applied the scene. This seemed to work.

M. Wilson reported:

I've also found out that if they don't put in the address as "classroom.google.com" and instead just try to write "google classroom" in the address bar, it will not let them go to classroom. They have to write it as the actual address. Additionally, even if your scene allows for classroom, they cannot "turn in" on the document. Instead, they have to go back to classroom to turn the assignment in. It's workable, though. :)

S. Flaming reported:

I used scenes last year and it should be fine to turn it on just before class or as class starts. If they are just closing their Chromebook between classes and not shutting down, it doesn't always work, they have to go out and go back online.

you can also set up a scene and call it something like "class time" or everyday and load it with exclusions of the websites that you know kids keep going to that you don't want them in. And, use that scene everyday. This will help to keep them on task, if a website becomes a problem with multiple kids, just add it to the "class time" exclusions.