Go Guardian

Owned by Pamela Wolfe
Last updated: Dec 05, 2024 by Jeffrey Lyon
6 min read

Basics and Logging In: 

  1. Log in via Clever 

  2. Select GoGuardian

  3. On the left, look for classes and look for “pending”

  4. You’ll need to activate/authorize pending classes so you can manage them

  5. You need to start a session (class period) and stop a session at the end of class.

 

GoGuardian Basics Video 

 

 

 

How to Start a Session:

  1. Select a class from your active sessions.

  2. On the far right side of the screen you will see the start session screen

  1. Choose how many minutes you want the session to last (the length of the remaining time in class) and select “Start Session”

 

 

 

 

 

Seeing Students Screens:

  1. Once in an active session, you will see previews of each student’s current tab displayed. 

  2. You can toggle between how big you want the screen previews in the top right corner.

 

  1. Click on any students screen preview to open up a larger view. 

 

 

 

 

Closing a student’s tab: 

  1. Once in the student’s individual screen, you will see their active tab and all other tabs they currently have open. 

  2.  In order to close a tab just select the “Close” button next to any of the tabs. (This may take a few seconds before the change appears on the screen.)

 

 

Opening A New Tab for a Student:

  1. Click the checkbox for your chosen student or students. There is also an option to select all at the top.

  2. Once you have clicked a checkbox, options will appear at the bottom to open a new tab, lock a device, unlock a device, or exclude from session.

  3. Click the “Open New Tab” and type in the web address and click “Open Tab.”

 

 

Chatting with a student:

 Quick Loom Video. - does have student names, can be deleted if needed.

Click on a student. Click the chat bubble.  It is circled in red in the picture below.

This screen pops up.  Toggle the chat to on.  Type your message in the box in the bottom right corner and then click the send button. 

 

 

The student will see an icon on their screen indication that they have a chat message.  It is circled in red below.  However, you will not be able to see if they ever read it.

 

Send an announcement to a student.  An announcement will make the student click a “Got It” button to make it go away so you can ensure they will see it before they can do anything else on their screen. 

Click on a student. Click the chat bubble.  It is circled in red in the picture below.

Click on send announcement.  Type your message and send.

This is what the student will see.  They will have to click the “Got It” box before they can proceed.

How to add Co-Teachers / Aides to GoGuardian:

  • Click on your class (“testtoo” in the example)

 

  • Click ‘Teachers’

 

 

  • Click ‘Add Teacher’

 

  • If ‘Add Teacher’ doesn’t show, you may have to scroll to the right.

 

 

  • After clicking ‘Add Teacher’, Search for another user by name, email, etc

 

 

  • Make sure you use ‘Teacher’ as the Classroom Role. You should be the only Owner.

 

 

  • Click ‘Add Teacher’

How to add a Scene:

Step 1. Go to the left side of your screen and click on Scenes.

Step 2. Once you select Scenes you can choose to allow only certain websites, or block websites. For this example we’ll choose blocking specific websites.

 

Step 3. It will ask you to name your list of blocked websites, and add a description if you’d like alongside icon colors.

 

Step 4. Once you name your list you can start adding websites that will be blocked. If you want some recommended websites quick lists is over at the right where it will bring up popular websites. For example if you want your kids only on Kahoot you can create a Allowed Websites list and add Kahoot meaning they can only open Kahoot. In the bottom right you can also create a Tab Limit.

 

Step 5. To enable a scene go to your class that’s live, and choose Apply a Scene.

 

Step 6. After clicking Apply a Scene you can select what students you want to be in the scene.

 

How to use Student Groups:

Step 1.) Navigate to your class you want groups in and choose the Student Groups tab. You can then choose create Student Group.

 

Step 2.) After choosing Create Custom Groups you can then choose which students to set in Group A, B, C, etc… The benefit of student groups is you can mass apply Scenes to each group individually, meaning if you have a group of students that are missing a lot of work you can put in them in their own tab and apply a lockdown scene.

 

Step 3. Once you have your groups you can go back to the Student Groups tab, select the group you created and then apply the scene by clicking the section called No scene applied. Once you click No scene applied you can select a scene you created.