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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher who uses GoGuardian. [b]You can see a child's screen who is at home sick if the kid is logged into their school account on a chrome browser during their normal class time.[/b] My school let parents and students know about this and highlighted that students should sign into and out of their school accounts only for school work. This is a brand new piece of software this year but it has been really useful in preventing kids from being off task during class. You wouldn't believe the amount of time many kids spend toggling between school work and .io games. I hope that the county figures out a system for protecting privacy without getting rid of the software because 11-14 year olds really have poor judgement when it comes to internet use. [/quote]

OP here.  Thank you for responding.

1.  Why is MCPS monitoring screens and not just URL when the kids are using their home personal computer to log in?  This was my assumption all this time but seeing a screen remotely seems extremely intrusive.

2.  When you say during "normal class time", is that by teacher's discretion?  Meaning, if teacher wanted to see the kids' screen during "non school hours", are they able to see it as well?  Looking at the goguardian website, it seems to state that teachers an view any previous sessions when kids are logged in from anywhere.

3.  Who else has access to seeing the kids' screens aside from the teacher?  Can subs access this information?  Random IT people from the county?[/quote]

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