Google School + Impero Query

[LMetcalfe]

Hi All.

 

Our school uses Google for all of our lessons and every student has a Chromebook. We used Impero for monitoring/filtering.

 

A lot of the kids play on Google games (i.e. Snake, Minesweeper and Solitaire).

 

Is there any way we can use the filtering system inside of Impero to restrict their access to Google games? I've tried blocking https://www.google.com/fbx?fbx=snake_arcade, http://elgoog.im/, https://www.google.com/doodles and https://www.google.co.uk/logos/ and they're still able to access them.

 

Outside of blocking search terms of snake, minesweeper and solitaire, are there any other solutions?

[Warwick_Tech]

Hi All.

 

Our school uses Google for all of our lessons and every student has a Chromebook. We used Impero for monitoring/filtering.

 

A lot of the kids play on Google games (i.e. Snake, Minesweeper and Solitaire).

 

Is there any way we can use the filtering system inside of Impero to restrict their access to Google games? I've tried blocking https://www.google.com/fbx?fbx=snake_arcade, http://elgoog.im/, https://www.google.com/doodles and https://www.google.co.uk/logos/ and they're still able to access them.

 

Outside of blocking search terms of snake, minesweeper and solitaire, are there any other solutions?

 

This has been a bane of many of us for a while - there are several threads about this and no one has a definitive answer, as the games are so linked to google services; even bing now offer chess and tic-tac-toe.

 

My 'all-round' solution was to block javascript using a GPO on Google, but they just go to google.ie, or google.au or google.mars (you get the idea)

 

a lot of people will tell you it's a classroom/supervision/dicipline issue, but that's simply not true, if they can be distracted or waste time, they will find some way (Famous birthdays has been a favourite for some bizzare reason)

 

These days I personally leave the google games open, I'd much prefer they waste time safely than google 'unblocked games' which can lead to FPS games or worse, malware.