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The GoGuardian App release notes track the app's changes on iPad.

GoGuardian App

2025

Release Notes

April 21, 2025

The GoGuardian App on Windows Release Notes

The GoGuardian App release notes track the app's changes on Windows.

Chat log enhancements

Improvements to help teachers and admins navigate student chat history more efficiently

Scenes conflict resolution

Minimize classroom disruptions and optimize learning time

The GoGuardian App on Mac Release Notes

The GoGuardian App release notes track the app's changes on Mac.

Mobile-friendly Beacon alerts

Access alerts and take action from any mobile device.

Proactive proxy detection is here

Detect and block new proxies before they become a problem.

Configure Beacon to your holiday schedule

Customize GoGuardian Beacon to your school's Safety Plan during holidays

After-Hours Email Summary

Customize your school's safety protocol and reduce the risk of missed alerts with Beacon's after-hours email summary capability

Flexible Scheduling for Every Classroom

Manage and automate your unique classroom scheduling needs on GoGuardian Teacher

Teacher-initiated Filter Override

Reduce lesson disruptions and empower teachers with GoGuardian's new filtering override

Streamlined Smart Alerts Interface for Easier Management

Our latest updates make the Smart Alerts interface more intuitive to streamline workflows for administrators.

Enhancements to Announcements

Improvements designed to make Announcements in GoGuardian Teacher even more effective for your classroom communication

Enhancements to Filtering Simulator

Updates to GoGuardian Admin Filtering Simulator makes it more intuitive for Administrators to test websites and YouTube links against their policies

Focus and Reorder Student Websites

Minimize off-task behavior by reordering and locking student tabs on GoGuardian Teacher

Snoozing Active Planning Alerts

We have expanded the capability to snooze Active Planning (AP) alerts for Beacon Core and 24/7 customers

Enhancements to Strengthen Digital Safety and Streamline Workflows

Updates to GoGuardian Admin provide more robust filtering and offer more efficient ways to take action

Gmail API-based alerting

Get alerted when there’s concerning activity in a student’s school-issued Gmail account, regardless of the device they're using.

GoGuardian Teacher and Pear Deck Tutor Integration

Assess understanding. Assign assistance.

Block Uncategorized Sites

Introducing a new way to block digital distractions and threats

Smart Alerts Model Improvements

Enhanced Smart Alerts for Increased Safety and Productivity

Customize Beacon Alerts with Configurable Alert Reminders

Manage the frequency and volume of alert notifications with new GoGuardian Beacon reminder settings

Customize Beacon Alerts With Separate Escalation Lists

Beacon's new separate escalation lists feature offers schools the ability to create unique escalation lists for both during and after school hours

GoGuardian Admin Top Blocked Students

The Top Blocked Students feature helps IT admins identify students that are attempting to bypass filtering

App-based deployment for GoGuardian Teacher on Windows

Simpler, smoother setup with this new GoGuardian Teacher deployment

New GoGuardian Admin Dashboard

Elevate your workflow with the revamped Admin Dashboard

Admin Provisioning for Google, Clever, and Classlink

Automatically sync administrator roles with your existing student information system.

Enhancements to GoGuardian Teacher’s Screens View

Discover GoGuardian Teacher’s fresh new look

OneRoster Integration

Automatically sync classroom and staff information using OneRoster.

Enhancements to Drag and Drop

Easily move students from one group to another and organize your classroom dashboard with these added functionalities.

New AI Filtering Category

Control access to artificial intelligence sites with GoGuardian Admin.

Drag and Drop

Rearrange student tiles within a GoGuardian Teacher session using Drag and Drop.

Redesigned Navigation in GoGuardian Admin and Organization Management

Discover the newly redesigned navigation for our most intuitive experience ever.

Beacon Alert Email Enhancements

Beacon alert emails have been enhanced to feature additional relevant information in a reader-friendly format.

Student Check-Ins

Gauge how students are feeling with this new GoGuardian Teacher feature.

Pear Deck Instant Share on GoGuardian Teacher

Launching Pear Deck presentations just got easier with this GoGuardian Teacher integration!

Role and Permission Enhancements

Customize access to GoGuardian product features with new role and permission enhancements

Beacon Dashboard

Turn data into action with the new Beacon Dashboard

Scenes Policy Checker

Quickly check if a website is blocked by your school or district's filtering policy.

Proxy Categorization Enhancements

Experience improved proxy detection with GoGuardian Admin.

GoGuardian for iOS, macOS, and Windows

Expand GoGuardian product coverage to new operating systems

2022

Enhancement

October 11, 2022

Share Scenes on GoGuardian Teacher

Now you can share Scenes with your fellow educators!

GoGuardian Admin Policy Templates

Get started quickly with pre-configured policies.

GoGuardian Beacon for iOS, macOS, and Windows

Expand your school's student safety to iOS, macOS, and Windows devices.

Clever and Classlink Integration Updates

Provision GoGuardian Teacher for teachers based on their respective Clever or Classlink OU.

Custom Groups

Penalty Box is now Custom Groups

Google Directory Provisioning

Provision Teacher users via Google Directory Sync

GoGuardian Teacher for iOS

Expand your classroom management to iOS!

Improved Website Categorization

Improved website categories for GoGuardian Admin

New: Customize Beacon 24/7 Call Notifications

Introducing more flexibility for Beacon 24/7 alerts

New Beacon Alerts Page

New alerts page for Beacon Core and 24/7.

Open Beta: New Role and Permission Controls

Join the beta for new role-based access controls within Org Management.

Why Was This Blocked?

To make troubleshooting easier and save users time, we’ve added a new feature that allows customers to quickly uncover why a site is blocked.

SFTP Sync for Staff User Provisioning

This latest feature release will help many of our IT administrators who crave automation in user provisioning

Scenes + Student Groups

Now teachers can better support differentiated instruction by applying Scenes to student groups or individual students.

School Session Indicator

We’ve created School Session Indicator to notify student users when GoGuardian is being used to filter or monitor content on their devices.

Separate Escalation List for Threats & Violence

Schools and districts can now assign a separate escalation list for Threats and Violence alerts.

X3 Model / Improved Smart Alerts

We've reduced the number of false positives in GoGuardian Admin's Smart Alerts by 25%

Tab Through Student Enlarged Screens View

Tab through all the student enlarged screens by clicking the 'Previous' and 'Next' arrows located beside students' names.

Quick Editor

We've released Quick Editor, a major workflow enhancement for IT admins, and a new faster way to apply filtering rules in GoGuardian Admin.

GoGuardian Teacher OUs Improvements and Bug Fixes

Bundled improvements to the GoGuardian Teacher OU experience in Org Management.

Student Chat Enhancements

Student chats that are easier to find and are less disruptive.

Email Student Reports

We've added the ability to email PDFs of student reports!

Rationale Tab Updates

We've updated section headers in the Rationale tab to clearly specify the content that generated the Beacon alert.

URL Checker

Check if a website is blocked for students

GoGuardian Teacher OU updates

This is the Org Management side work to support Role Based Access Control updates in GoGuardian Teacher.

View and Filter Alerts

Beacon has a new filtering option to view alerts in the dashboard.

Accessibility and VPAT Certification

Beacon is now fully accessible!

Website Categorization Updates

Website Categories has a new look!

New Beacon Search Model

We have built a new Beacon Model to improve the performance on searches to reduce the overall number of alerts and false positives.

Snooze Alert By Domain

Beacon users can now snooze all of the pages and content related to a domain, allowing them to better manage incoming alerts and false positives.

Policy Checker

We've updated the compare button on the Custom Policies page and called it Policy Checker.

Scenes Reboot (Phase 3)

The third and final installment of Scenes Reboot is here!

Warning: Your Scene is Blocking You From Opening a Tab

Receive a warning when opening a tab that's blocked by a Scene.

User Management OU Enhancements

This is the first piece in Org Management that supports GoGuardian's Role Based Access Control initiative

Activity Page Reset Pagination

Users can now reset pagination on any sort/filter change.

Activity Page Update

No users can filter table data by the 'Results' column.

Beacon Accessibility

With this release we are ensuring Beacon is accessible to individuals with disabilities.

Beacon FAST Model

The new Beacon FAST model is expected to reduce overall alerts by as much as 20% per customer, with many of these alerts being false positives.

Intune Win32 Configuration Legacy App Update

This update replaces our previous Azure Configuration app

Entity Details Page Redesign

Part 2 of our Student Engagement Analytics project updates

"Idle" Student Status

When a student is "idle" for longer than 10 minutes, the student tile will display this status.

Student Screen Annotations

Call a student's attention to a link, button, or point of interest on a website.

An Easier Way to Find Chat Logs

We’ve made chat logs easier to find and access for each student.

Scenes Reboot (Phase 2a)

Support Query Matches for Youtube

Recently Opened Tabs

We’ve added a “Recently Opened Tabs” section everywhere you can use the "Open Tab" command.

New Extension Transparency icon

Students will now see and click on our extension transparency icon to find out teacher session information

Snooze Alert Improvements

Alert Bypass has been updated to be called Snooze Alert, with improved alert accuracy and reduced number of false positives.

Google Coursework Integration

GoGuardian Teacher will now show classwork for all classes which were synced from Google Classroom.

Improved Close Tab Command

It's now easier and clearer for teachers to close tabs for students.

Slimmer Global Navigation

We've made more room for student screens!

Scenes Reboot (Phase 2)

Rebranding of the GoGuardian Teacher Scenes landing page.

Support for Canadian Phone Numbers

Beacon 24/7 users can now add Canadian phone numbers to their escalation list.

Faster Screens View & Improved Student Tiles UX

Some UX improvements to the Screens View in GoGuardian Teacher.

“Loading…” Bug On Student Tiles Resolved

This fix resolves the "Loading..." issue on student tiles.

Deployment Dropdown Search Option

Now administrators can quickly search, identify, and select a deployment from the deployment dropdown list.

Notes Functionality Improvement

We've updated the notes functionality in Beacon to support the ability to delete notes and add notes to grouped alerts.

New Installation Tab

Org Management has a brand new installation tab that centralizes all of the different GoGuardian installation options in one easy-to-find location.

Threats & Violence Categories

Beacon now monitors and detects Threats and Violence related content.

Scenes Reboot (Phase 1)

Infrastructure/filter logic improvements, as well as bug fixes, for Scenes

GoGuardian Teacher

2021

The GoGuardian App on iPad Release Notes

The GoGuardian App on Windows Release Notes

Chat log enhancements

Scenes conflict resolution

The GoGuardian App on Mac Release Notes

Mobile-friendly Beacon alerts

Proactive proxy detection is here

Configure Beacon to your holiday schedule

After-Hours Email Summary

Flexible Scheduling for Every Classroom

Teacher-initiated Filter Override

Streamlined Smart Alerts Interface for Easier Management

Enhancements to Announcements

Enhancements to Filtering Simulator

Focus and Reorder Student Websites

Snoozing Active Planning Alerts

Enhancements to Strengthen Digital Safety and Streamline Workflows

Gmail API-based alerting

GoGuardian Teacher and Pear Deck Tutor Integration

Block Uncategorized Sites

Smart Alerts Model Improvements

Customize Beacon Alerts with Configurable Alert Reminders

Customize Beacon Alerts With Separate Escalation Lists

GoGuardian Admin Top Blocked Students

App-based deployment for GoGuardian Teacher on Windows

New GoGuardian Admin Dashboard

Admin Provisioning for Google, Clever, and Classlink

Enhancements to GoGuardian Teacher’s Screens View

OneRoster Integration

Enhancements to Drag and Drop

New AI Filtering Category

Drag and Drop

Redesigned Navigation in GoGuardian Admin and Organization Management

Beacon Alert Email Enhancements

Student Check-Ins

Pear Deck Instant Share on GoGuardian Teacher

Role and Permission Enhancements

Beacon Dashboard

Scenes Policy Checker

Proxy Categorization Enhancements

GoGuardian for iOS, macOS, and Windows

Share Scenes on GoGuardian Teacher

GoGuardian Admin Policy Templates

GoGuardian Beacon for iOS, macOS, and Windows

Clever and Classlink Integration Updates

Custom Groups

Google Directory Provisioning

GoGuardian Teacher for iOS

Improved Website Categorization

New: Customize Beacon 24/7 Call Notifications

New Beacon Alerts Page

Open Beta: New Role and Permission Controls

Why Was This Blocked?

SFTP Sync for Staff User Provisioning

Scenes + Student Groups

School Session Indicator

Separate Escalation List for Threats & Violence

X3 Model / Improved Smart Alerts

Tab Through Student Enlarged Screens View

Quick Editor

GoGuardian Teacher OUs Improvements and Bug Fixes

Student Chat Enhancements

Email Student Reports

Rationale Tab Updates

URL Checker

GoGuardian Teacher OU updates

View and Filter Alerts

Accessibility and VPAT Certification

Website Categorization Updates

New Beacon Search Model

Snooze Alert By Domain

Policy Checker

Scenes Reboot (Phase 3)

Warning: Your Scene is Blocking You From Opening a Tab

User Management OU Enhancements

Activity Page Reset Pagination

Activity Page Update

Beacon Accessibility

Beacon FAST Model

Intune Win32 Configuration Legacy App Update