Product Updates

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

GoGuardian Teacher

2023

Enhancement

May 19, 2023

Redesigned Navigation in GoGuardian Admin and Organization Management

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

Goals, Interventions and Early Warning Reports in Data Studio

New reports offer schools more flexibility and tailored analysis in their journey to deploy more proactive, data-driven approaches to student support.

Pear Deck Home Base Redesign

We’ve made it easier than ever for you to access the tools you need for your classroom

Beacon Alert Email Enhancements

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

What’s new in Edulastic: April 2023

New features for Enterprise including recording question type, immersive reader, and bulk assign options.

Edulastic Data Studio

Empower district and classroom leaders to uncover student learning insights to guide strategic decisions and support student outcomes.

Student Check-Ins

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

Role and Permission Enhancements

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

Pear Deck Instant Share on GoGuardian Teacher

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

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.

What’s new in Edulastic: February 2023

Access new reports and accommodations with these Edulastic updates.

Pear Deck Immersive Reader For All

Now available for free to all Pear Deck users, Immersive Reader helps learners improve comprehension and build confidence in their reading skills.

Content Orchard Filtering

The Pear Deck Content Orchard now has filtering!

Edulastic Integration with OneRoster

Class rostering made even simpler

GoGuardian for iOS, macOS, and Windows

Expand GoGuardian product coverage to new operating systems

Edulastic Enhancement: Filter Users by School

A product enhancement to support district administrators

Edulastic Text-To-Speech Controls for the Passage-Based Question

Toggle TTS (aka Read Aloud) on and off at the item level for passage-based questions.

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

Review Student Mastery Records from the Previous Year

Learn about your students' academic history with this new feature.

Google Directory Provisioning

Provision Teacher users via Google Directory Sync

Practice Assessments to Complement Eureka Math Squared

Edulastic's SparkMath now offers practice support for EM2!

New Edulastic Features for Back-to-School 2022

Updates cover hints, assignment types, common assessment controls, and more!

GoGuardian Teacher for iOS

Expand your classroom management to iOS!

Pear Deck for Google Classroom Add-on

Transform lessons into powerful formative assessments and active learning experiences in one seamless environment.

Pear Deck's New Content Orchard

Discover ready-to-teach content in the Content Orchard

Improved Website Categorization

Improved website categories for GoGuardian Admin

New: Customize Beacon 24/7 Call Notifications

Introducing more flexibility for Beacon 24/7 alerts

Bubble Sheets and Reference Materials

Two new updates for premium Edulastic accounts

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.

Bug Fix for Disappearing Responses

Solution to the bug in which a student's first response would sometimes disappear.

Sign-Up Flow Consolidation

Improvements to the Pear Deck sign-up flow

Content Orchard: Phase 1

The Content Orchard is now featured in the Launchpad and Google Slides Add-On!

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.

Add Audio Redesign

We've updated the Add Audio UI!

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.

GoGuardian Teacher OUs Improvements and Bug Fixes

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

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.

Student Chat Enhancements

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

Rationale Tab Updates

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

Email Student Reports

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

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!

COPPA Compliance

We removed tracking codes on the /join screen to comply with COPPA requirements.

Be Internet Awesome Curriculum Refresh

Check out our updated digital citizenship lessons from Be Internet Awesome!

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!

Reflect & Review

Reflect & Review is a new feature that makes it easier for all teachers to provide feedback to students once a Pear Deck session ends.

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.

Intune Win32 Configuration Legacy App Update

This update replaces our previous Azure Configuration app

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.

Entity Details Page Redesign

Part 2 of our Student Engagement Analytics project updates

Student Screen Annotations

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

"Idle" Student Status

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

April Improvements: New Features for Reports, Zero Point Questions, State Test Skins and More!

Explore improvements to help empower students, updates to report filters, ways to save settings, a Questar skin to help prep for state testing, and more.

An Easier Way to Find Chat Logs

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

SparkReading: Content bundles to help your students grow as readers

SparkReading includes phonics, book bundles, reading comprehension and more. Guide your students as they grow as readers. Learn more & sign up for a free trial.

ProgressChecks: Track Student Mastery, Standard by Standard

We’ve released free math ProgressChecks to help you identify where students are at.

Recently Opened Tabs

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

Scenes Reboot (Phase 2a)

Support Query Matches for Youtube

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!

New Improvements to Parent Portals, Rubrics, Work Upload, and Regrade

This month we are delivering new insights, ways to show work, and enhancements to improve a variety of your favorite tools in Edulastic.

Announcing SparkScience Premium NGSS-Aligned Questions

The SparkScience assessment bundle consists of content playlists for elementary, middle, and high school levels.

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.

Now Available: Activate a Teacher Premium Trial

Starting this week, you can sign up for a two-week Edulastic Teacher Premium trial.

New Edulastic Updates: Free Trials, Anti-Cheat Features, and More

We’ve taken your feedback and released new anti-cheating features and other tune-ups to continue to deliver the best-in-class online assessment tool.

Deployment Dropdown Search Option

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

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.

Notes Functionality Improvement

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

Announcing a New Way to Give Math Practice: SparkMath

SparkMath offers curriculum-aligned differentiated math practice, arranged in modules, for your students.

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

Drag and Drop Student Tiles

Redesigned Navigation in GoGuardian Admin and Organization Management

Goals, Interventions and Early Warning Reports in Data Studio

Pear Deck Home Base Redesign

Beacon Alert Email Enhancements

What’s new in Edulastic: April 2023

Edulastic Data Studio

Student Check-Ins

Role and Permission Enhancements

Pear Deck Instant Share on GoGuardian Teacher

Beacon Dashboard

Scenes Policy Checker

Proxy Categorization Enhancements

What’s new in Edulastic: February 2023

Pear Deck Immersive Reader For All

Content Orchard Filtering

Edulastic Integration with OneRoster

GoGuardian for iOS, macOS, and Windows

Edulastic Enhancement: Filter Users by School

Edulastic Text-To-Speech Controls for the Passage-Based Question

Share Scenes on GoGuardian Teacher

GoGuardian Admin Policy Templates

GoGuardian Beacon for iOS, macOS, and Windows

Clever and Classlink Integration Updates

Custom Groups

Review Student Mastery Records from the Previous Year

Google Directory Provisioning

Practice Assessments to Complement Eureka Math Squared

New Edulastic Features for Back-to-School 2022

GoGuardian Teacher for iOS

Pear Deck for Google Classroom Add-on

Pear Deck's New Content Orchard

Improved Website Categorization

New: Customize Beacon 24/7 Call Notifications

Bubble Sheets and Reference Materials

New Beacon Alerts Page

Open Beta: New Role and Permission Controls

Bug Fix for Disappearing Responses

Sign-Up Flow Consolidation

Content Orchard: Phase 1

Why Was This Blocked?

SFTP Sync for Staff User Provisioning

Scenes + Student Groups

School Session Indicator

Add Audio Redesign

Separate Escalation List for Threats & Violence

X3 Model / Improved Smart Alerts

Tab Through Student Enlarged Screens View

GoGuardian Teacher OUs Improvements and Bug Fixes

Quick Editor

Student Chat Enhancements

Rationale Tab Updates

Email Student Reports

URL Checker

GoGuardian Teacher OU updates

View and Filter Alerts

Accessibility and VPAT Certification

Website Categorization Updates

COPPA Compliance

Be Internet Awesome Curriculum Refresh

New Beacon Search Model

Snooze Alert By Domain

Policy Checker

Scenes Reboot (Phase 3)

Reflect & Review

Warning: Your Scene is Blocking You From Opening a Tab

User Management OU Enhancements

Activity Page Reset Pagination

Activity Page Update

Beacon Accessibility

Intune Win32 Configuration Legacy App Update

Beacon FAST Model

Entity Details Page Redesign

Student Screen Annotations

"Idle" Student Status

April Improvements: New Features for Reports, Zero Point Questions, State Test Skins and More!

An Easier Way to Find Chat Logs

SparkReading: Content bundles to help your students grow as readers

ProgressChecks: Track Student Mastery, Standard by Standard

Recently Opened Tabs