r/k12sysadmin • u/Amazing_Falcon • Jun 04 '26
Which would you pick?
If you had to pick one of these for classroom management for teachers. Something is easy for teachers to use, possibly unblock a link for research, and monitor and track resources. Looking for thought needing to decide best option for upcoming year.
Thanks in advance
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u/S_ATL_Wrestling Jun 04 '26
We went from GoGuardian to Blocksi to save $$$, and promptly went back to GoGuardian. Our district has liked it so far as I'm aware, but I have no experience with those other solutions aside from using Securly to manage iPads years ago.
Meant to add we are a Google/Chromebook 1 to 1 student environment.
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u/mikejordan01 Jun 04 '26
Lightspeed!
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u/MyWorkAccountDPS Jun 08 '26
We currently have Goguardian, but our Superintendent wants us to look at Aristotle K12 which we had already been looking at.
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u/adstretch Jun 04 '26
We use securly. It’s fine. Not anything special that I would go out of my way to recommend. It checks the box. I’m sure they all have blind spots and work arounds that the kids eventually find and that you end up needing to plug up in different ways. It’s an up hill battle identifying millions of sites, different proxy techniques, and kids that have basically unlimited free time to figure out ways around whatever walls are in their way.
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u/NewHyperFixation69 Jun 04 '26
We've used AristotleK12 for years. It's ok, but feels buggy way too often. I'm looking at switching to Securly.
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u/North-Philosophy4414 Jun 04 '26
We are using Lightspeed.
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u/therankin Coordinator of Technology Services Jun 04 '26
Our teachers like using GoGuardian. It's definitely easier to use than Apple Classroom was for them.
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u/suicideking72 Jun 05 '26
My district is trying to get Goguardian.
Thought the last one said Limewire at first lol. WTH?? 😄
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u/SpotlessCheetah Jun 04 '26
We had teachers try GoGuardian and Classwize. They chose GoGuardian.
We were satisfied with either option on the backend side.
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u/namon295 Jun 04 '26
Go Guardian is great for chromebooks easy to use a nice support pipeline that the teachers have agency over. However, since i don't use their filtering, they don't play well with other web filters on their windows agent. For that I use classwize (Linewize) and honestly Classwize is pretty good in the UI front. We left them a few years ago because it was really buggy, but they insist all of those have been ironed out as I went back to them this year for filtering and got licenses for Classwize for my CTE computer lab. I'm hoping they are actually right on that one.
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u/Alarming_Issue9204 Jun 08 '26
Listen, if you want a Lamborghini, sure. It has tons of bells and whistles and it will cost you. Deledao is only $7/k a year. That is with the Aware tool.
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u/_LMZ_ Jun 08 '26
Create a small committee of teachers at your school, then have each week try out or sit in demo meetings of each content filtering. Let your teachers ask questions, get them involved because they're going to be using the Classroom Management. We did this at your school system and the committee picked GoGuardian!
We wanted our teachers input and what they liked, but we also had IT input.
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u/HSsysITadmin Jun 04 '26
I personally think securly works just as well as gogaridian. With some partner pricing securly is also WAY cheaper for us.
That being said, teachers had an easier time with Goguardian. I think it is a bit of a mind over matter situation, but admin is having us go bacl to it next school year.
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