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.
What You Will Learn
- How to Configure Safe Content
- How to Configure Web Filtering
Steps to Configure Safe Content and Web Filtering
Access Profiles
- Log in to your Mobile Guardian Dashboard.
- Navigate to "Profiles" on the left-hand side panel.
Edit a Profile
- Select a Profile to Edit
You can edit an existing Conditional profile or the Baseline profile to add Safe Content and Web Filtering.
- Click the Edit (Pencil) Icon next to the desired profile under "Actions".
Configure Safe Content
- Select "Safe Content" in the profile settings.
Enable Safe Content:
- Check the "Enable web filter" checkbox.
- Check the "Enable safe browsing" checkbox.
- Click "Save".
Configure Web Filtering
When selecting "Enable web filter", this will display the "Allowed list & Blocklist" tab.
Configure 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.
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.
Block or Allow URLs
You may block or allow individual URLs to ensure that the specific URL is either blocked or allowed.
Bulk upload URLs to your Allowed/Blocklist:
Mobile Guardian provides a convenient way to update your Safe Content settings by uploading a CSV file. This eliminates the need to manually add or remove individual web URLs, especially when dealing with a large number of entries.
Steps for Bulk URL Management in Safe Content:
- Log in to your Mobile Guardian dashboard.
- Navigate to Profiles, select the Profile, What Tab and select Safe Content.
- Navigate to the "Allowed List & Blocked List" tab.
- Under the URL’s heading, locate the "Actions" drop-down.
- Choose the desired action:
- "Import from CSV": To add the URLs from your CSV file to the existing list.
- Select your prepared CSV file.
- The system will process the file and display the added URLs below the corresponding heading.
- Review the updated list to ensure the changes have been applied correctly.
Save Your Configuration
Finalise and Save:
- Once you've added the desired categories and URLs, click the back arrow in the top left corner to save your additions automatically.
Enhanced Allowlist/Blocklist Management
To give you better control, your URL management lists include a search function. Use the search bar to find specific URLs within your Allowlist or Blocklist. The function also provides an immediate view of the total number of URLs you’ve placed in the list. When viewing, note that the first 20 URLs will appear in the list below the search tool.
You have now successfully configured Safe Content and Web Filtering on your Mobile Guardian Dashboard.
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