Lightspeed Systems

“Lightspeed Filter has allowed our district to reclaim visibility to what students are doing online.”

“Once we moved to Lightspeed Filter, we started saving hours a week, every week, and the difference was immediately obvious.”

“[iBoss] was absolutely terrible, it didn’t work at all, there were problems from the start that never went away.”

“Classroom management allows me to get on with doing what I do best: teach.”

“The fact is these solutions empower teachers to teach, secure in the knowledge that their students are on task, engaged, and safe.”

“Using Lightspeed Filter alongside Classroom Management allows the schools to see any inappropriate behaviour, any content that’s being accessed and searched on a single dashboard,” said Ms. Shah. “This access to the filtering and reporting is very useful for our DSLs. It gives great insight into learners and helps keep them safe wherever they are and whichever device they use.”

“Because we do a lot of online testing using tools like Microsoft Forms,” Ms. Shah explained, “you can actually drill down and allow an individual student access to one web URL and turn off web browsing for the rest of the internet. That has revolutionised how we use testing because we are now secure in the knowledge that students are only accessing approved content.”

“If a teacher is in in the classroom and a student has done some amazing work,” said Ms. Shah, “instead of having to save it and send it, a teacher can use Classroom Management to easily share that student’s screen with everyone.”

“Groups was one of the most powerful features,” declared Ms. Shah. “The reason I like groups is that they’re dynamic. They are easy to rearrange and amend. Yet, equally, the tools that sit within them are the same as you have for the whole class.”

“One of the key features with Lightspeed Classroom Management is the whole class view,” said Ms. Shah. “It’s here that the teacher can either have a view of all screens at once or in a list view. There are also insights that appear when it’s something you’re not expecting to see: for instance, the AI will alert the teacher to students who are going off task.”

“Plus, I can support teachers from my home office, while the senior leadership team can to the same regardless of where they are.”

“I think my favourite comment that I received is this: ‘Classroom management allows me to get on with doing what I do best: teach.”

“With this solution, teachers can lock an entire class and their devices in one go so that they can get students’ attention.”

“That’s where Lightspeed Classroom Management came into play: it allows the teachers across our schools to manage and monitor their devices.”

“Because we were already set up for 1:1,  we didn’t skip a beat  when COVID hit. We sent devices home, and it just worked! We didn’t have to stress about keeping students on task and keeping them safe, we were already set up for success for that.”

“That feature was critical for us. It made it easier to maintain the Chromebooks on the cloud without the need for a VPN network connection,”

“We had Lightspeed Classroom available to teachers district-wide, but when COVID pushed us to virtual learning, every teacher used it to teach effectively and view their students’ activity from afar. Now they use it every day for both in-person and remote instruction, and they love it.”

“We knew we wanted to move forward with Lightspeed Classroom because it was exactly what we needed for our teachers.”

““It has been a true partnership. I get the help I need when I need it. Not just to get things working again, but to follow best practices on how the product is designed to work so we are set up for success,” highlighted Merrill.”

““There are a lot of things to like about the filter. The flexibility is fantastic. I can filter and report on my users exactly the way I want. The YouTube controls are fantastic, giving my teachers and students access to the educationally focused content they need for learning while keeping them safe on the platform,” stated Merrill.”

““Our previous filter went down quite often, and we spent hours on the phone with support trying to problem-solve. This always began with a 20-minute recap of our environment. We also had a lot of historical data reporting requests from building and district administrators, and pulling those reports was an arduous task, “ explained Brian Merrill, Educational Technology Analyst at Central Bucks School District.”

“There are a lot of things to like about the filter. The flexibility is fantastic. I can filter and report on my users exactly the way I want. The YouTube controls are fantastic, giving my teachers and students access to the educationally focused content they need for learning while keeping them safe on the platform.”

“It has been a true partnership. I get the help I need when I need it.”

“Our previous filter went down quite often, and we spent hours on the phone with support trying to problem-solve. … We also had a lot of historical data reporting requests from building and district administrators, and pulling those reports was an arduous task.”

“We got the most outstanding support from Lightspeed that I would have to put it in my top two or three support services from my entire IT career, which is well over 30 years.”