FAQs
The Blocksi Teacher Dashboard is a classroom management system for teachers who wants to assist students on Chromebooks or Windows-OS devices during class, while at the same time monitor their screens, collect analytics, and enforce a filtering policy to either run assessments with limited internet resources, or just block or unblock access to certain materials on the internet for pedagogy and curriculum purposes. The teacher dashboard runs only during the class session for a limited amount of time. When class ends, the enforced new filtering policy falls back to the administrator filtering policy.
The Teacher Dashboard shows you a collection of tiles of every student's screen in your classroom, near real time.
The Teacher Dashboard allows you to see every open tab and close the ones deemed irrelevant.
The Teacher Dashboard enforces an internet and YouTube filtering policy set by the administrator, to which teachers can make exceptions or set their own filtering policies.
The Teacher Dashboard allows you to import your classes from Google classroom and add students to the class based on their Google IDs.
Blocksi Manager is fully embedded as an extension in Google Chrome and uses Chrome as a native browser.
The Teacher Dashboard allows you to collect analytics of each web category your students visited, which YouTube videos they watched, and which sites they accessed during your class.
There is no specific limit set.
Student's screens (Chromebook or Windows) are displayed as tiles that when clicked on, are displayed full-screen along with the analytics and web history of that student during the class session. A specific filtering policy different from the class filtering policy can also be enforced to a specific student. Refresh time is near real time, less than 3-4 seconds depending on network upstream bandwidth conditions.
Administrators can push specific teacher filtering policies to be used during the class session only to the Teacher Dashboard. Teachers can change the filtering policy for their class on the fly, and pick another one or make exceptions to the current one. Once the class is over, it falls back to the administrator school-wide filtering enforced policy.
Teachers can import classes from Google Classroom, can add students using a join access code, select them from the Google Workspace user directory, or import them from a .csv file.
Teachers can add web filters across 85 categories, create block and allow lists, add YouTube filtering across 32 categories, or restrict YouTube to a specific channel or exception list. Usually the administrator pushes to the Teacher Dashboard filtering policies that would fit a teachers' requirements for their classes, and the teacher would just need to make exceptions (block or allow) some specific sites.
Yes, they do. The reports contain all URLs visited and every YouTube video watched during the class session.
Yes, the teacher can see icons for each tab open and can close the ones which are deemed not necessary for the class.
Yes, the teacher can block access to the entire internet and allow only access, for example, to a specific set of web pages along with a Google form, so that the students in class have access to a limited number of resources when completing assessments.