Product Updates

See the latest feature release, product enhancement, and bug fix updates for GoGuardian products.

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Enhancement
July 12, 2024

Streamlined Smart Alerts Interface for Easier Management

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

GoGuardian Admin
2024
Release Notes
July 1, 2024

The GoGuardian App on Windows Release Notes

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

GoGuardian App
2024
Release Notes
June 28, 2024

The GoGuardian App on Mac Release Notes

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

GoGuardian App
2024
Release Notes
June 27, 2024

The GoGuardian App on iPad Release Notes

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

GoGuardian App
2024
Enhancement
June 24, 2024

Enhancements to Announcements

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2024
Enhancement
June 13, 2024

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

GoGuardian Admin
2024
New Feature
June 4, 2024

Focus and Reorder Student Websites

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2024
Enhancement
May 20, 2024

Snoozing Active Planning Alerts

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

GoGuardian Beacon
2024
Enhancement
May 13, 2024

Enhancements to Strengthen Digital Safety and Streamline Workflows

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

GoGuardian Admin
2024
New Feature
April 18, 2024

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 Beacon
2024
New Feature
March 27, 2024

GoGuardian Teacher and Pear Deck Tutor Integration

Assess understanding. Assign assistance.

GoGuardian Teacher
2024
Enhancement
March 20, 2024

Block Uncategorized Sites

Introducing a new way to block digital distractions and threats

GoGuardian Admin
2024
Enhancement
November 15, 2023

Smart Alerts Model Improvements

Enhanced Smart Alerts for Increased Safety and Productivity

GoGuardian Admin
2023
New Feature
October 25, 2023

Customize Beacon Alerts with Configurable Alert Reminders

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

GoGuardian Beacon
2023
New Feature
October 18, 2023

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 Beacon
2023
New Feature
October 17, 2023

GoGuardian Admin Top Blocked Students

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

GoGuardian Admin
2023
New Feature
September 20, 2023

App-based deployment for GoGuardian Teacher on Windows

Simpler, smoother setup with this new GoGuardian Teacher deployment

GoGuardian Teacher
2023
Enhancement
September 14, 2023

New GoGuardian Admin Dashboard

Elevate your workflow with the revamped Admin Dashboard

GoGuardian Admin
2023
New Feature
August 16, 2023

Admin Provisioning for Google, Clever, and Classlink

Automatically sync administrator roles with your existing student information system.

Platform
2023
Enhancement
August 15, 2023

Enhancements to GoGuardian Teacher’s Screens View

Discover GoGuardian Teacher’s fresh new look

GoGuardian Teacher
2023
Enhancement
August 9, 2023

Enhancements to Drag and Drop

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2023
New Feature
August 9, 2023

OneRoster Integration

Automatically sync classroom and staff information using OneRoster.

Platform
2023
New Feature
August 2, 2023

New AI Filtering Category

Control access to artificial intelligence sites with GoGuardian Admin.

GoGuardian Admin
2023
Enhancement
June 7, 2023

Drag and Drop

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.

GoGuardian Admin
2023
Enhancement
April 20, 2023

Beacon Alert Email Enhancements

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

GoGuardian Beacon
2023
New Feature
March 30, 2023

Student Check-Ins

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2023
Enhancement
March 16, 2023

Role and Permission Enhancements

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

GoGuardian Admin
2023
New Feature
March 16, 2023

Pear Deck Instant Share on GoGuardian Teacher

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2023
New Feature
March 3, 2023

Beacon Dashboard

Turn data into action with the new Beacon Dashboard

GoGuardian Beacon
2023
Enhancement
March 2, 2023

Scenes Policy Checker

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2023
Enhancement
February 21, 2023

Proxy Categorization Enhancements

Experience improved proxy detection with GoGuardian Admin.

GoGuardian Admin
2023
New Feature
November 2, 2022

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 Teacher
2022
New Feature
October 6, 2022

GoGuardian Admin Policy Templates

Get started quickly with pre-configured policies.

GoGuardian Admin
2022
New Feature
September 26, 2022

GoGuardian Beacon for iOS, macOS, and Windows

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

GoGuardian Beacon
2022
Enhancement
September 12, 2022

Clever and Classlink Integration Updates

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

Platform
2022
New Feature
August 30, 2022

Custom Groups

Penalty Box is now Custom Groups

GoGuardian Admin
2022
New Feature
August 5, 2022

Google Directory Provisioning

Provision Teacher users via Google Directory Sync

Platform
2022
New Feature
August 3, 2022

GoGuardian Teacher for iOS

Expand your classroom management to iOS!

GoGuardian Teacher
2022
Enhancement
June 27, 2022

Improved Website Categorization

Improved website categories for GoGuardian Admin

GoGuardian Admin
2022
Enhancement
June 7, 2022

New: Customize Beacon 24/7 Call Notifications

Introducing more flexibility for Beacon 24/7 alerts

GoGuardian Beacon
2022
Enhancement
May 4, 2022

New Beacon Alerts Page

New alerts page for Beacon Core and 24/7.

GoGuardian Beacon
2022
Enhancement
April 7, 2022

Open Beta: New Role and Permission Controls

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

Platform
2022
New Feature
January 18, 2022

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.

GoGuardian Admin
2022
New Feature
December 13, 2021

SFTP Sync for Staff User Provisioning

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

Platform
2021
Enhancement
November 3, 2021

Scenes + Student Groups

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
New Feature
October 21, 2021

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.

Platform
2021
New Feature
October 13, 2021

Separate Escalation List for Threats & Violence

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

GoGuardian Beacon
2021
Enhancement
September 28, 2021

X3 Model / Improved Smart Alerts

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

GoGuardian Admin
2021
Enhancement
September 2, 2021

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
2021
Bug Fix
August 31, 2021

GoGuardian Teacher OUs Improvements and Bug Fixes

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

Platform
2021
New Feature
August 31, 2021

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 Admin
2021
Enhancement
August 5, 2021

Student Chat Enhancements

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
Enhancement
July 29, 2021

Rationale Tab Updates

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

GoGuardian Beacon
2021
Enhancement
July 29, 2021

Email Student Reports

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
New Feature
July 22, 2021

URL Checker

Check if a website is blocked for students

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
Enhancement
July 15, 2021

GoGuardian Teacher OU updates

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

Platform
2021
Enhancement
July 1, 2021

View and Filter Alerts

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

GoGuardian Beacon
2021
Enhancement
June 24, 2021

Accessibility and VPAT Certification

Beacon is now fully accessible!

GoGuardian Beacon
2021
Enhancement
June 22, 2021

Website Categorization Updates

Website Categories has a new look!

GoGuardian Admin
2021
Enhancement
June 8, 2021

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.

GoGuardian Beacon
2021
Enhancement
June 3, 2021

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.

GoGuardian Beacon
2021
Enhancement
June 2, 2021

Policy Checker

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

GoGuardian Admin
2021
Enhancement
June 1, 2021

Scenes Reboot (Phase 3)

The third and final installment of Scenes Reboot is here!

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
Enhancement
May 13, 2021

Warning: Your Scene is Blocking You From Opening a Tab

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
Enhancement
May 10, 2021

User Management OU Enhancements

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

Platform
2021
Bug Fix
May 7, 2021

Activity Page Reset Pagination

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

GoGuardian Admin
2021
Enhancement
May 5, 2021

Activity Page Update

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

GoGuardian Admin
2021
Enhancement
April 30, 2021

Beacon Accessibility

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

GoGuardian Beacon
2021
Enhancement
April 26, 2021

Intune Win32 Configuration Legacy App Update

This update replaces our previous Azure Configuration app

Platform
2021
Enhancement
April 26, 2021

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.

GoGuardian Beacon
2021
Enhancement
April 22, 2021

Entity Details Page Redesign

Part 2 of our Student Engagement Analytics project updates

GoGuardian Admin
2021
New Feature
April 20, 2021

Student Screen Annotations

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
New Feature
April 20, 2021

"Idle" Student Status

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
Enhancement
April 15, 2021

An Easier Way to Find Chat Logs

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
Enhancement
April 1, 2021

Recently Opened Tabs

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
Enhancement
April 1, 2021

Scenes Reboot (Phase 2a)

Support Query Matches for Youtube

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
New Feature
March 25, 2021

New Extension Transparency icon

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

Platform
2021
Enhancement
March 24, 2021

Snooze Alert Improvements

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

GoGuardian Beacon
2021
New Feature
March 23, 2021

Google Coursework Integration

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
Enhancement
March 19, 2021

Improved Close Tab Command

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
Enhancement
March 18, 2021

Slimmer Global Navigation

We've made more room for student screens!

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
Enhancement
March 9, 2021

Scenes Reboot (Phase 2)

Rebranding of the GoGuardian Teacher Scenes landing page.

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
Enhancement
March 8, 2021

Support for Canadian Phone Numbers

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

GoGuardian Beacon
2021
Enhancement
March 4, 2021

Faster Screens View & Improved Student Tiles UX

Some UX improvements to the Screens View in GoGuardian Teacher.

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
Bug Fix
February 18, 2021

“Loading…” Bug On Student Tiles Resolved

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
Enhancement
February 11, 2021

Deployment Dropdown Search Option

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

GoGuardian Beacon
2021
New Feature
February 4, 2021

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.

Platform
2021
Enhancement
February 4, 2021

Notes Functionality Improvement

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

GoGuardian Beacon
2021
New Feature
February 2, 2021

Threats & Violence Categories

Beacon now monitors and detects Threats and Violence related content.

GoGuardian Beacon
2021
Enhancement
January 28, 2021

Scenes Reboot (Phase 1)

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

GoGuardian Teacher
2021
Enhancement
January 27, 2021

Time-series Charts

We have released Part 1 of our multi-phase Student Engagement Analytics project

GoGuardian Admin
2021
Enhancement
January 27, 2021

Policy Management Enhancements

We have made key updates in the Custom Polices page to give the users better access control in managing policies within GoGuardian Admin.

GoGuardian Admin
2021
Enhancement
January 11, 2021

Updated Exported Reports

To improve the user experience of exporting reports we've made updates on how we generate and download reports across the GoGuardian Admin interface

GoGuardian Admin
2021
Enhancement
January 8, 2021

Dashboard Redesign

The GoGuardian Admin Dashboard has gone through a design upgrade for improved user experience.

GoGuardian Admin
2021
New Feature
December 16, 2020

Student Groups

With Student Groups, teachers and co-teachers will have more flexibility in how they monitor and intervene with a subset of students in a GoGuardian classroom.

GoGuardian Teacher
2020
New Feature
December 15, 2020

Create OUs from ClassLink Integration

Now our customers can use roster data to build OUs for ClassLink orgs

Platform
2020
New Feature
December 15, 2020

Notes Functionality

Beacon now allow customers to jot down comments, ideas, and actions related to a specific alert.

GoGuardian Beacon
2020
Enhancement
December 11, 2020

Screenshot Improvements in Screens View

Higher resolution and faster screenshots

GoGuardian Teacher
2020
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