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Delegate Dashboard

Alerts Overview

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

Set up Alerts for the following Web category types:

  • Security Risk

  • Unethical

  • Adult/Mature Content

  • Bandwidth Consuming

  • Business

  • Personal

  • Unrated

Turning Alerts On and Off

You turn alerts on and off whenever you need to.

To turn an alert on and off:

  1. Click Student Safety from the Main Menu and then click Alerts from its sub-menu. The Alerts screen appears.

    Alerts Screen

  2. Click Configure Alerts. The Alerts > Configure Alerts screen appears.

  3. Look for the alert to turn on or off.

  4. Click the ON button to turn the alert off or click the OFF button to turn the alert on.

Alert Types, Severity, and Status

Alert Types
The Blocksi Delegate and Admin Dashboards use the following alert types:

  • Organizational Units

  • Student Safety

  • Search Engine Keywords

  • Flagged Keywords

  • Web Categories

  • YouTube Categories

Alert Severity

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.

Informational Alert
Warning

Warning alerts appear with an orange icon in the alert list, as shown below.

Warning Alert
Critical

Critical alerts appear with a red icon in the alert list, as shown below.

Critical Alert

Note

The alerts shown above are for example purposes only; the district defines what constitutes an information, warning, and critical alert.

Alert Details

See the image below for descriptions of the parts of the alert message.

Alert Descriptions
Alert Status

Alerts can be either Open or Closed.

Alert status is determined by whether the alert is acknowledged: Open alerts are those that users have not acknowledged; Closed alerts are those that users have acknowledged.

Alerts Main Screen

The Alerts main screen displays the following information:

  • Type of Alert

  • Alerts by Organizational Unit

  • Student Safety Chart

  • Search Engine Keywords

  • Flagged Keywords

  • Web Category Alerts

Alerts Screen