Keep a watch on the students internet activity

[genesis]

Hi

 

We use NetSweeper and Impero on our network and one of the staff is asking how do the students know that the school is monitoring the internet activity.

 

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

[mikes]

weird question, how do the students know? By the school telling them ??

[CHiLL]

You should have an official school policy covering computer and Internet usage in place that the students and parents are aware of. We no longer require users to sign AUPs, though we do have a pre-login message users must dismiss which outlines the basics of the policy, configured via Group Policy. I believe all parents are issued with the computer/Internet policy as part of the onboarding process and we also run an induction for new year 7 students (but not any in-year admissions), where we specifically outline that everything is monitored and stored. We use Sophos for our firewall/filtering, Impero for classroom management/monitoring and Smoothwall Monitor, also for monitoring (but it's not monitored by us, but by Smoothwall externally).

[Brax]

We state in the AUP and in a window for a logon script that network usage is logged. But most students find out in their computing lessons when their teacher takes control of the screen and puts them back on task! Also smoothwall blocks them often so they know it's being monitored. Edited March 15, 2024 by Brax