Managing Student Tabs

Use Make Active, Focus, and Make Active and Focus to manage student browser tabs and keep students on the right page during a GoGuardian Teacher session. GoGuardian Teacher gives you 3 tab management actions to help students stay on task that are located in the Student Activity section, accessible by clicking on and expanding a student's screen view.

Tab Actions

Make Active - Moves a background tab to become the student's active (frontmost) tab.

Turn Focus On - Sets the active tab as the focused tab. Other tabs are temporarily hidden for the student and it cannot be closed while focus is turned on. Focus applies to 1 webpage at a time, not an entire website.

Make Active and Focus - Moves a background tab to active and immediately focuses it in one action.

Use Make Active

Click a student's tile to expand their screen.
Go to the Student Activity section.
Find the background tab you want to move to active.
Click Actions and select Make Active.

Turn Focus On

Click a student's tile to expand their screen.
Go to the Student Activity section.
Find the tab that is already the student's active tab.
Click Actions and select Turn Focus On.

Turn Focus Off

Turn off Focus for all students - click the Turn Focus Off button in the command bar and confirm by clicking Yes.

Turn off Focus for one student:

Click the Unfocus button in the lower corner of the student's tile in the Screens grid.
Or expand the student's screen view and click Actions, then Turn Focus Off.

Open a Tab in Focus

Click a student's tile to expand their screen view.
Click Open new tab.
Enter the URL.
Turn on the Focus Website toggle.
Click Open Tab.