Product Updates | GoGuardian

The Pear Deck release notes track changes in the app.

2024

April 2, 2024

New NGPF ready-to-teach lessons available

Pear Deck Learning and nonprofit Next Gen Personal Finance have partnered again to deliver high-quality personal finance curriculum in Content Orchard

GoGuardian Teacher and Pear Deck Tutor Integration

Assess understanding. Assign assistance.

The GoGuardian App on Mac Release Notes

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

The GoGuardian App on iPad Release Notes

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

The GoGuardian App on Windows Release Notes

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

Block Uncategorized Sites

Introducing a new way to block digital distractions and threats

New District Library Enhancements

The latest Pear Deck District Library upgrades make it easier than ever to find, organize, and share high-quality instructional resources.

New Math and ELA Pear Deck Certified Content

New Certified standards-aligned lessons for math and ELA has been released into the Content Orchard

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

New time-saving features for Pear Deck District Library

Our commitment to making your teaching journey smoother and more productive continues, and we're excited to introduce you to some brand-new features

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

Enhancements to Drag and Drop

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

OneRoster Integration

Automatically sync classroom and staff information using OneRoster.

New AI Filtering Category

Control access to artificial intelligence sites with GoGuardian Admin.

Pear Deck District Library

There’s now a better way to share your Pear Decks with co-teachers and colleagues

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.

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

2022

Enhancement

October 13, 2022

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.

Pear Assessment

2021

Pear Deck Release Notes

New NGPF ready-to-teach lessons available

GoGuardian Teacher and Pear Deck Tutor Integration

The GoGuardian App on Mac Release Notes

The GoGuardian App on iPad Release Notes

The GoGuardian App on Windows Release Notes

Block Uncategorized Sites

New District Library Enhancements

New Math and ELA Pear Deck Certified Content

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

New time-saving features for Pear Deck District Library

Admin Provisioning for Google, Clever, and Classlink

Enhancements to GoGuardian Teacher’s Screens View

Enhancements to Drag and Drop

OneRoster Integration

New AI Filtering Category

Pear Deck District Library

Drag and Drop

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