Two Main Types of Notifications:

  • Flagged (Self-harm, violence, bullying, gun-related)
  • Blocked (Pornography, drugs, etc).

Notifications can be set up individually – i.e., Flagged to guidance or SRO, inappropriate content to APs or others. Blocked Notifications are about things that are actually blocked, so students weren’t able to access content; Self-Harm Notifications may or may not be blocked (i.e., if a student is looking up a suicide hotline, it will still let the student access that information, but it sends a notification).


Notifications can be set at a school level

 

10 Minute Bans

Another option for notification on blocked content is a 10 minute ban. If a user tries to access blocked content more than 10 times in a row, it cuts off their internet for 10 minutes.

  • Main problem we’ve seen with this is false positives during class causing kids to get blocked.

 

Volume of Inappropriate Content Notification:

  • 17000 since December 7 (270/day)

Volume of Flagged Content Notifications:

  • 400 since December 7 (6/day)
  • A LOT of false positives
  • Obviously searcing for answers to school work
  • Searching for memes
  • School nurses/pscyhologists searching for medication information