Is GoGuardian going away???

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It was included as a cut in the superintendent's recommended operating budget. MCPS said only 3000 out of 14000 teachers used it at least once recently.

Yeah. That 3,000 out of 14,000 stat is pretty hard to justify paying for the full license for all teachers.

It doesn’t speak to how MCPS rolled it out tho, which likely led to those low adoption numbers.

3000 out of 14000 is a really low percentage when you could install something less expensive just for site blocking and let it be done by the enterprise system in IT.

If teachers need or want it to remain for certain grades now is the time to notify the BOE and their Admin to speak up.

I'm sure they do network/DNS blocking, but that is very, very limited compared to endpoint controls.

It's also really useful for pushing websites out to students if you want everybody to go to a single website

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It was included as a cut in the superintendent's recommended operating budget. MCPS said only 3000 out of 14000 teachers used it at least once recently.

Yeah. That 3,000 out of 14,000 stat is pretty hard to justify paying for the full license for all teachers.

It doesn’t speak to how MCPS rolled it out tho, which likely led to those low adoption numbers.

Nope. Site blockers aren’t blocking translation pages or sites with calculators,etc,etc,etc. the solution is to cut central office bloat and keep things that are actually useful. Remind is not useful. At all. GoGuardian is.

Both of them are useful.

[Anonymous]

Might as well make all my tests open note if they are going to disable GoGuardian.

It's like they dont want us to actually stop cheating or to help focus students on classwork.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GG is active and automatically blocks problematic sites. Also, you can see all student screens at once on your teacher screen, making it easy to see who is looking at what.

I love the ability to send screenshots and even activity timelines to parents whose kids are screwing around on sites that we can’t block. 45 min class and your son spent 42 min on various Google docs set up for chatting rather than the assignment that was due at the end. Changes the conversation immediately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Might as well make all my tests open note if they are going to disable GoGuardian.

It's like they dont want us to actually stop cheating or to help focus students on classwork.

There are other programs that are better for stopping cheating. GG is most useful to helping immature brains stay on task.

[Anonymous]

I am a sub and have used it. It doesn’t require any training and is necessary for all grade levels using Chromebooks.

[Anonymous]

I love that "most teachers don't care if students play video games all day" is the justification for taking a tool away from teachers who do care.

[Anonymous]

I use it frequently for 4th and 5th. Many of my fellow elementary teachers don’t use it because they aren’t on chromebooks very much. But absolutely middle and high school teachers need to be able to see what’s on everyone’s screens. Last year I had a kid who was supposed to be working on a project was instead searching up airsoft rifles on Amazon.

[Anonymous]

It is stupid to take away GoGuardian. Whoever made that decision obviously knows nothing about modern classrooms and should not be making any decisions affecting students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is stupid to take away GoGuardian. Whoever made that decision obviously knows nothing about modern classrooms and should not be making any decisions affecting students.

Her name is Stephanie Sheron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is stupid to take away GoGuardian. Whoever made that decision obviously knows nothing about modern classrooms and should not be making any decisions affecting students.

+1

[Anonymous]

I teach HS juniors and seniors. I don’t use it because I mostly use paper assignments.
I feel it is nice for all of us to get a break from screens whenever we can. And I am always walking around helping students so it would be tough to monitor a screen. I can see how middle schoolers might need Go Guardian as they are more impulsive and less mature

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a sub and have used it. It doesn’t require any training and is necessary for all grade levels using Chromebooks.

Do subs have Go Guardian or are you logged in to teacher’s account?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was included as a cut in the superintendent's recommended operating budget. MCPS said only 3000 out of 14000 teachers used it at least once recently.

Yeah. That 3,000 out of 14,000 stat is pretty hard to justify paying for the full license for all teachers.

It doesn’t speak to how MCPS rolled it out tho, which likely led to those low adoption numbers.

+1 why the heck are only 3000 out of 14K using it?

DD, sophomore, told me that their chromebooks have it.

Yes, they have it. But it isn't doing anything if the teachers aren't using it.

yes, but why aren't they using it?

Presumably, because they don't need to.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is stupid to take away GoGuardian. Whoever made that decision obviously knows nothing about modern classrooms and should not be making any decisions affecting students.

Her name is Stephanie Sheron.

Thanks. Will email her.