GOGUARDIAN PARENT
Cabot Schools has launched the GoGuardian Parent App. The GoGuardian Parent App is an application available on devices running iOS and Android. It is designed to enable schools to share managed user history collected via GoGuardian Admin and GoGuardian Teacher with verified parents and guardians.
The GoGuardian Parent App provides Parents and Guardians the ability to pause their children's internet, block specific websites, and schedule internet availability on district-managed Chromebook devices outside of normal school hours.
STEP ONE: DOWNLOAD AND OPEN THE PARENT APPLICATION
STEP TWO: ENTER EMAIL ADDRESS FOR AUTHENTICATION
Once the application has loaded, follow the on-screen prompts to authenticate the application with your email address on file with your student's school.
NOTE: If the message "Sorry, the email you provided can't be verified. Please try again or contact your school's administrator" appears, double-check the spelling of the full email address.
If it is correct, please contact the school to verify the email is on file.
STEP THREE: VERIFY YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
After successfully entering the email address, a prompt will appear "Please check your email - Click the link in your email to log in."
Proceed to check your email on your mobile device and press the link within the email to complete verification. If the link does not work, use the PIN provided within the email within GoGuardian Parent to complete verification.
STEP FOUR: REVIEW TERMS AND CONDITIONS
After successfully entering the email address, proceed to read the terms and conditions for GoGuardian Parent by navigating to the bottom of the text box. After reading the terms and conditions, press the checkbox to confirm review of the text and press the "I Agree" button.
STEP FIVE (OPTIONAL): CONFIGURE FILTER SETTINGS FOR YOUR STUDENT
From the homepage of the parent application displaying a summary of your child's browsing activity, press the middle icon at the bottom of the interface to open the Filters menu.
After pressing Filters, tap the blue button at the bottom right corner of the interface to add a website to block access to for your child's managed device. You can add subdomains such as mail.google.com or entire domains such as youtube.com.
Wildcard expressions are currently NOT supported by GoGuardian Parent. After typing the domain or subdomain, press the blue button Create to save the filter. It may take around 2 minutes or so for the filtering to take effect on a child's managed browser.
Delete a filter by pressing the area to the right of the site and dragging it to the left. The row will be highlighted in red and will be deleted after being flicked to the left.
STEP SIX (OPTIONAL): PAUSE YOUR STUDENTS INTERNET WHILE AT HOME
A. HOW TO PAUSE MANUALLY
TIME LIMITS
From the homepage of the parent application displaying a summary of your child's browsing activity, press the fourth icon at the bottom of the interface to open the time limits menu.
PAUSE
Press the pause internet button to view and select the desired timeframe from the preset increments to pause the internet for your child. It may take around 2 minutes or so for the filtering to take effect on a child's managed browser.
RESUME
Once the internet has been disabled, the app will show a countdown to indicate when access will resume for your child along with an indication that the internet is turned off. Press the Resume Internet button to allow your child to continue using the internet as needed.
B. HOW TO PAUSE ON A SCHEDULE
TIME LIMITS
From the homepage of the parent application displaying a summary of your child's browsing activity, press the fourth icon at the bottom of the interface to open the time limits menu.
CREATE SCHEDULE
Create a recurring schedule by specifying start time and end time of when the internet is to be disabled as well as the day(s) of the week you'd like the start and end times to apply to. Then click Create
OVERNIGHT SCHEDULE
For overnight scheduling to pause internet during the late evening/early morning, create two schedules for each day - for example 8:30 PM to 12AM and 12AM to 7:30AM each day.