Baugo Community Schools in Indiana selected Securly's web filtering solution to enhance student safety and monitor bullying through identity-based reporting. The school, transitioning to a 1:1 Chromebook policy, faced challenges with previous providers, including inadequate support and high costs, which led them to choose Securly for its effective and cost-efficient monitoring capabilities. Securly's services ensure consistent student safety both on campus and at home, fostering better communication between parents and the school.

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Baugo Community Schools choose
Securly’s web filtering solution to keep
its students safe 24/7 with identity-
based, and at-home monitoring.
Customer Name:
Baugo Community Schools
Location: Elkhart, Indiana
Business ImpactBusiness Challenge
Baugo Community Schools has about 2000 students and 250 support
staff including 130 teachers. Students are provided Chromebooks,
while teachers use PCs and MacBooks. David Wolford, the Instructional
Tech at Baugo Community Schools is determined to implement a 100%
1:1 Chromebook policy. This parity is essential to enable students and
teachers to live in the same world when it comes to the technology
they use. Though the school did use Untangle, their inability to provide
identity-based reporting in place of IP-based reporting prompted them
to look for other solutions.
Identity-based reporting and active reporting were considered
important to help the school monitor bullying issues and intervene
immediately.
Problems arose due to the gap between at-home monitoring and
parents’ understanding of at-home web filtering, which the previous
provider was unable to resolve.
Customer support from other competitors under consideration
included “ridiculous response time”, and complicated whitelisting
procedures.
Cost was also a major factor in view of the transition to
Chromebooks and the 1:1 goal.
Monitoring beyond social media, by
detecting bullying threats over email
Identity-based reporting instead of IP based
reporting helps educators and parents zero
in on the problem areas
Blend of active monitoring, periodic alerts,
and social media activity monitoring can
enable quicker analysis of problem
Parent portal that provides parents visibility
of student’s activity and encourages
engagement
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Chromebook filtering
As the school moves to 100% Chromebook
use, Securly’s zero-touch filtering using
Chrome extensions without the hassle
of proxying or SSL certificates becomes
important. At the same time, it can support any
blend of devices including MacBooks and PCs,
which are currently being used extensively by
teachers and the support staff.
“The speed at which you
guys are innovating product is
awesome. Securly is already
an amazing tool to keep kids
safe on the internet and it just
keeps getting better. From an
IT standpoint, it is seamless to
deploy”
— David Wolford
Instructional Tech,
Baugo Community Schools
David Wolford looked at various options, but Securly’s cost-effective
solution that provides active identity-based monitoring along with alerts
and Facebook monitoring, and the ability to detect threats of bullying
over email tipped the scales in its favor.
The incidence and danger of cyber bullying cannot be played down
for the cyber generation, and Securly’s ability to detect threats over
email can help schools and parents tackle the problem head on.
The PageScan and Auditor features give Securly an edge over other
providers by enabling in-depth and exhaustive filtering and monitoring.
Not only does Securly keep students safe on campus, it also provides
the same level of filtering when at home. Students’ activity reports are
then sent to the parents’ inbox. This will help bring the school and
parents on the same page and find workable solutions for students’
problems.
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