Blocksi Alerts is a powerful tool that can send live notifications to school administrators and delegates when harmful behavior is detected on students’ Google Workspace Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Chat, and YouTube categories. Alerts detects activity related to any of the following:
Cyberbullying | Web categories |
Profanity/Swearing | YouTube categories |
Signs of depression/anxiety/low self-esteem | Nudity/Mild/explicit sexual content |
Signs of self-harm/suicidal thoughts | Inappropriate behavior/content |
Violence | Hate speech |
Alcohol/drug-related content | Keywords |
Phishing | Student safety |
You can set up Alerts for the following Web category types:
Security Risk
Unethical
Adult/Mature Content
Bandwidth Consuming
Business
Personal
Unrated
You can also set up Alerts for all YouTube Categories.
You turn alerts on and off whenever you need to.
To turn an alert on and off
Sign in to the Blocksi Admin Dashboard using your Google credentials.
Click Student Safety from the Main Menu and then click Alerts from its sub-menu. The Alerts screen appears.
Click Configure Alerts. The Alerts > Configure Alerts screen appears.
Look for the alert that you want to turn on or off.
Click the ON button to turn the alert off or click the OFF button to turn the alert on.
Blocksi uses three levels of severity to identify alerts: informational, warning, and critical. These levels are user-defined.
Informational
Informational alerts appear with a yellow icon in the alert list, as shown below.
Warning
Warning alerts appear with an orange icon in the alert list, as shown below.
Critical
Critical alerts appear with a red icon in the alert list, as shown below.
Note
The alerts shown above are for example purposes only; the district defines what constitutes an information, warning, and critical alert.
See the image below for descriptions of the parts of the alert message.
