Unplug the Chromebook cart. As a teacher who supports no screens, I unplug the cart and only plug it up to charge the Chromebooks before tests and equip module pretests. So simple.

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Anonymous wrote:Lightspeed is a bargain flash sale version of Go Guardian. You get what you you pay for and it's crap. I could do so much moreover with GoGuardian.

Why is a school district with a $3B+ budget cheaping out on this??

+1 Totally. As a parent who knows there's so much video game playing going on in their kid's school, I'm happy to advocate for paying for a license for a monitoring software that actually works. Who makes these decisions at MCPS and when is the next chance to change back to GoGuardian?

While I prefer GoGuardian, the temu version does the same as GoGuardian. It’s just less user friendly. And if people had a hard time figuring GoGuardian, there’s no way in hell they can figure this one out as it took my a bit and I am tech savvy. Like I legit know of teachers that didn’t even know how to freeze or block shit on GoGuardian, on Lightspeed is a little less forward but I do it on my end and kids don’t play in my class because EVERYTHING is blocked but the sites they need for my class. The main issue here is that MCPS do NOT teach teachers how to use these tools. They do sometimes have optional pdo’s, but let’s be honest, who in their right mind is going to sign up for a training outside work hours? They do need to have trainings during the first week and not make them optional at all as I have had to taught veteran teachers how to use these tools.

Anonymous wrote:The biggest issue with these programs is that if the teacher is actually doing what they are supposed to, they are not at their desks long enough to be monitoring the app.

Teacher here, I use heavily these programs. I don’t need to be at my desk watching. I have a selection of websites that I put on the allow list, anything else gets automatically blocked. I don’t have any problem with students gaming in my class. The only time I am monitoring the computer is when we are doing a reading test because of that stupid add-on on chrome that insta translates anything the kids highlight in a small box and since it’s a pop-up box (not a pop up window or another window) it doesn’t get registered, so I gotta monitor it at the PC. Other than that, the app does everything for me/

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Anonymous wrote:Lightspeed is a bargain flash sale version of Go Guardian. You get what you you pay for and it's crap. I could do so much moreover with GoGuardian.

Why is a school district with a $3B+ budget cheaping out on this??

+1 Totally. As a parent who knows there's so much video game playing going on in their kid's school, I'm happy to advocate for paying for a license for a monitoring software that actually works. Who makes these decisions at MCPS and when is the next chance to change back to GoGuardian?

The biggest issue with these programs is that if the teacher is actually doing what they are supposed to, they are not at their desks long enough to be monitoring the app.

Anonymous wrote:Lightspeed is a bargain flash sale version of Go Guardian. You get what you you pay for and it's crap. I could do so much moreover with GoGuardian.

Why is a school district with a $3B+ budget cheaping out on this??

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Anonymous wrote:How is Lightspeed working out for teachers?

Kids know how to get around it in my experience. I use it regularly. It’s not as good as Goguardian.

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Anonymous wrote:How is Lightspeed working out for teachers?

Kids know how to get around it in my experience. I use it regularly. It’s not as good as Goguardian.

Why pretend to care about brain rot on chromebooks. Let it rip! We will have more influencers and more passive content users. Dream come true for Big Tech.

How is Lightspeed working out for teachers?

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t MCPS just use iBOSS?

The thing about iboss is that it's at the district level. For example, if Larlo is distracted by X website, but Carlo uses it to enrich his learning, than X webiste can't be blocked for ONLY Larlo. Teachers have way less control over anything.

Why can’t MCPS just use iBOSS?

Lightspeed is a bargain flash sale version of Go Guardian. You get what you you pay for and it's crap. I could do so much moreover with GoGuardian.