lightspeed parent portal

by Prof. Vallie Torp 8 min read

What is Lightspeed parent portal?

Lightspeed Parent Portal helps parents establish healthy screen time limits with controls to pause web browsing on their child's device while at home and outside of school hours for 1 hour, 3 hours, or overnight.

What is Lightspeed System Web access?

Lightspeed MDM allows users to remotely deploy, update, and revoke apps across student devices—even after it's been issued—without having to physically handle the device. Track lost or stolen equipment, control hardware settings, reset passwords, and restrict access to protect your technology.

What is Lightspeed Web Filter?

Patented Lightspeed agents leverage advanced AI to automatically block millions of inappropriate and harmful sites, images, and videos. Lightspeed Filter helps technology teams scale student safety with our cloud-based, device-level protections that work across all devices, operating systems, and learning environments.

What can teachers see on Relay?

Relay allows teachers to see what the students are browsing in real time, plus allows the teacher to see the most viewed sites. Please Note - Relay will only display 4o students per class. The Student List can be filtered to view Everyone, Status, or Currently Browsing.

How do I bypass Lightspeed system?

Luckily, you may bypass a Lightspeed Systems Internet filter by browsing the Internet through a proxy website....Go to the FastPassProxy website. ... Enter the URL for the Web page that is being filtered by Lightspeed Systems into the field in the middle of the Fast Pass Proxy website, next to where it says "Site URL."More items...

How do I disable Lightspeed Systems at school?

Uninstalling Lightspeed ServerNavigate to the Lightspeed OnSite Downloads page.Click Upgrade or Install for any version of OnSite 2015 2.0. ... Extract the files in the downloaded archive (zip) file.Double-click the dmg file.Double-click the Uninstaller.Check the boxes for the components you wish to uninstall.More items...

What is Lightspeed alert agent?

Lightspeed Alert™ is a critical component in student safety plans and the prevention of self-harm, cyberbullying, suicide, and school violence. District administrators and their delegates are notified instantly of threats and can intervene before an incident occurs.

What is Lightspeed proxy?

The Network Agent acts as a man-in-the-middle proxy to enable the use of features from Lightspeed Filter, including YouTube Smart Play, Image Filtering, and Blocked Keyword Search. The Network Agent has the ability to filter individual YouTube videos and filter the video thumbnails.

What is the weekly parent report email?

The weekly Parent Report Email will contain an invitation to Log In or Register for the Relay Portal. Click the button at the end of that email to get started.

How long can you pause your student's internet?

You may select an amount of time to pause web browsing For 1 hour, For 3 hours, or Until tomorrow morning.

What is a landing page?

The landing page provides a summary of your student’s most recent browsing activity. The page reports on sites your student has visited in the past seven days, including times the sites were accessed.

Overview

Lightspeed Parent Portal™ enables parents or guardians to support their student’s internet-based learning by monitoring their student’s most recent web browsing activity and temporarily limiting access.

Admin Setup

Session-based data reporting to the Parent Portal and Weekly Parent Report email requires the following Lightspeed Filter Agent versions.

Parent Report Email

Every Sunday, all parent/guardian email addresses included in the imported Parent Report Recipient CSV will receive the Weekly Parent Report, which contains:

Parent Portal Account Creation

Recipients of the Relay Portal Weekly Report will receive a login/registration link in the footer of each weekly email. Parents/guardians can create their account in the Portal by entering First Name, Last Name, Email Address and Password.

Weekly Parent Report Email

Currently, to unsubscribe, guardians must notify their Organization Administrator that they would like to be removed, and the Organization Administrator will have to remove the guardian from the Parent Report Recipients CSV file and reimport it.

Parent Portal Dashboard

Yes. Each URL in the Past 7 Days table is listed in its entirety and serves as clickthrough link to the specific website.

Pause Web Browsing

Yes, across Chrome, Windows, Mac, and iOS devices. Minimum requirements for Lightspeed Filter Agents are as follows.

How often does the Web Activity information update?

The time delay of Web Activity displayed in Portal is less than a minute.

How do I pause internet access for my child?

Within the Parent Portal landing page, you will find on the right side of the page a " Pause web browsing " panel. Just flip the switch to on and choose an amount of time to pause web browsing be it " For 1 hour ", " For 3 hours ", or " Until tomorrow morning".

What does it look like when I pause my child's ability to browse the internet?

When browsing is paused, your child will see a screen similar to the one below ...

Is there a limitation on when I can pause web browsing?

You will not be able to use Parent Portal to pause your child's web browsing ...

Can I pause internet access for my child on during school hours when my child is not at school?

At this time, we cannot configure the Pause Web Browsing feature to work during school hours on days your child is not at school, holidays, or vacation days.

Can I schedule the Parent Portal to pause web browsing every day at a specific time?

Not at this time. Beaverton School District has made a feature request to Lightspeed Systems asking for parents to be able to schedule pausing web browsing in a future release.

Can I block specific sites?

Unfortunately no. Beaverton School District has made a feature request to Lightspeed Systems asking for parents to be able to use the Parent Portal to block specific websites in a future release.

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