![]() Apparently they’ve had, and I quote, “Lots of positive feedback about teachers taking control of and locking apps on students’ mobile devices.” That was the point where my jaw really hit the floor. Orchestrator allows teachers to view all students screens from a dashboard, “ensures safety by seeing who is protected by the webfilter and who isn’t”, and perhaps most worryingly, “record sessions to store a students activity to share or investigate.” This immediately rang all sorts of alarm bells where is that data being stored, who owns it, who has access to it? Although Lightspeed’s products are primarily designed for use on schools’ own mobile devices, the presenter added that they can also be installed on children’s own mobile devices and can be used to monitor their web activity outwith school hours. One of their products, Classroom Orchestrator, is designed to allow teachers to monitor students screens and devices “making it easy to see who’s off-task, who needs extra attention, and who’s excelling”. There doesn’t seem to be any mention of trivial issues such as privacy, ethics and consent. I presume in this instance “the detail” means individual students.Īccording to their press, Lightspeed Systems create tools to help schools manage and filter their networks as well as empower classroom learning. As well as just blocking content, Lightspeed’s Web Filter also incorporates hierarchical filtering “to keep students safe, even when they leave the classroom,” along with web activity reporting functionality “from the high level to the detail”. Their honesty, enthusiasm and willingness to share was in stark contrast to the previous presenters and event sponsors Lightspeed Systems who presented their “online safety and web filtering systems” for education. Inspirational has become a rather throwaway term used to describe speakers, but these young people really, truly, were an inspiration. Stephen and Rebecca stood up in front of an audience of over a hundred delegates and spoke confidently and articulately about the importance of the Digital Leaders initiative and how much they enjoyed and benefitted from being part of it. The best, and it really was wonderful, came from teachers Natalie Lockhead and Nicola Paterson, and pupils Rebecca and Stephen from Kirklandneuk Primary School, who are part of the school’s Digital Leaders Network. The Digital Leaders Network encourages children who are confident with using all kinds of technology to support their teachers and peers by sharing their skills and knowledge, while at the same time enabling the children to develop confidence, literacy and skills for life. Oh, also found out some random tips that are pretty cool about blocking the weebly and google sites you don't students to get to, but still allowing the domains overall.Last week I attended the Holyrood Connect Learning Through Technology event where I saw a rather jawdropping demonstration of the very best and very worst that education technology has to offer. I appreciate that they certainly wanted to get this fixed ASAP. Great that they wanted to get it fixed that badly, but hey at least it is doing what it is supposed to do without causing chaos in the classroom (well, as far as I can test it). We had to fix little bugs here and there all over the place, multiple little things were messed around with and then it started working. Still not positive it was a real easy fix or anything. A Senior Engineer came out today to figure out what was up (I'm in Austin not too far from them). Rant overĮDIT: So, apparently we got their attention. Their customer service has gone down the drain as well. Also their "Device Detective" has never once worked, and their LS Classroom app sucks and works maybe 70% of the time. ![]() Happening all the time on different videos, doesn't matter if they have been approved by the teacher/me or not, doesn't matter the rules, it just randomly blocks ones that are needed. Now it is blocking YT Videos even under completely correct rules (they even say this), and I even white listed it. Right off the bat the way they have the rules setup is annoying, the GUI is very unfriendly and took a little bit of time to figure out how to get to the right sub groups. ![]() I had LS Rocket for quite awhile, we thought transferring to Relay would be pretty easy. ![]()
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