Teacher/Classroom internet control

[neonetman]

We are currently runningVeyon as our classroom management software (as it is free, and there is no budget for this). I've had a request from a teacher for the ability to control internet as well. Whilst I know Veyon do an addon for this, we simply don't have the budget to buy this. Does anyone know of a free or open source solution for this?

[mavhc]

Wonder how easy it is to write a plugin, it's QT and C++

 

Blocking the internet isn't too hard, could set a fake proxy server, and restore the real one upon unblock.

 

https://github.com/veyon/veyon/blob/master/plugins/screenlock/ScreenLockFeaturePlugin.cpp

[jthompson]

We cobbled together a system by which teachers can apply temporary internet bans to students. An internet ban lasts for the remainder of the current timetable period and puts the student on our walled garden web proxy profile (access only to essential sites like Google Classroom). This is done with various scripts and scheduled tasks in the background that essentially add the user to a security group, which then governs the web proxy settings they get from Group Policy. The snag is that a ban doesn't take effect until the user's next login or gpupdate. However, it's early days and staff are mainly wanting to use it pre-emptively at the start of certain lessons anyway, rather than reactively.