We are pleased to introduce our newly updated Web Filtering Categories, engineered to deliver a safer, more robust, and highly precise filtering architecture.
This new update works behind the scenes to keep out harmful, explicit, or distracting content, ensuring your students only explore approved, age-appropriate sites.
Follow this step-by-step guide to configure these settings in your Mobile Guardian Dashboard.
Plan Class
If enabled, Web Filtering allows you to block or allow categories and websites during the class.
Toggle on the Enable web filter; this should expand the Web Filtering settings.
If you would prefer to block all online activity during your class, toggle Block all traffic.
Web Filtering Categories
You may select from the following pre-configured category configurations.
- High: Very restrictive, blocking all harmful content and all adult-related sites.
- Moderate: Moderately restrictive, protects against all adult-related sites.
- Low: Minimal restrictions, blocking only potentially harmful content.
- To start defining custom category block lists and allowed lists, choose the "None" option.
- After your selection, select Save
The system is divided into Core Parent Category Groups, each designed to help you easily manage student access, protect network infrastructure, and enforce safeguarding compliance.
Technical & Security Protection
This section manages critical background network operations and active digital defenses. It blocks malicious web threats (such as malware, phishing scams, and command-and-control networks) as well as unapproved tools that attempt to bypass school filters, route traffic anonymously, or take remote control of network devices.
Student Safety & Legal Compliance
Built to support legally mandated safeguarding policies, this group shields students from highly sensitive or illegal material. It restricts access to explicit content, online gambling, hate speech, weapons, cyberbullying platforms, and self-harm materials. It also flags compliance-related issues such as piracy platforms and academic cheating networks.
Classroom Focus & Productivity
These rules are designed to prevent distractions and keep students on-task during lessons. This includes managing high-volume recreational sites such as social media feeds, browser-based games, streaming entertainment services, consumer e-commerce storefronts, personal messaging apps, and generative AI tools.
Approved Educational & Wellness Resources
This group contains verified materials permitted to support the active school curriculum and student wellness. It houses mainstream reference databases, student learning management systems (LMS), approved school email systems, official education agency resources, and essential mental health or crisis support helplines.
Block or Allow Categories
Next to each category you can select to Block, Allow or Off. Leaving the category selection to Off means the category and subsequent linked websites would not be filtered.
URL Testing
In the Web Filter setting section on the Dashboard, you have been provided with a URL Testing feature. This is a really useful feature to test your web filtering configurations or you can use it to test the accessibility of any online content you would like to share with your class.
Simply enter the URL into the field, to test if the settings have been applied and click Test
If the URL you are testing has not been blocked using the Blocklisting Category, you can click on the Blocklist link to action this URL.
Alternatively, you can use this feature to test if a website is trying to be accessed has been blocked.
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