Filter
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per student, per year
- Policies by OU, user, schedule and campus
- About 6 million domains in categories
- Smart detect with a review queue
- YouTube report and per-video blocks
A web filter
for your flock
Web filtering and live classroom screens for Chromebook schools, hosted for you and set up in Google Admin Console.
Shepherd is watching
For the first thirty days Shepherd runs beside your current filter. It sees every page your Chromebooks load and blocks nothing. When the reports look right, flip one switch.
Enforce filtering
Off · monitoring only
Turn on what your school needs
Each switch below is a real setting in the Shepherd console. Try them: every one says what it would do at a school like yours.
Block social media during class.
Grades 6 to 8, 8:05 am to 3:10 pm on school days. At home, the home policy takes over.
Flag worrying searches.
11 term lists and 619 terms, read on 15 search sites. High-severity flags alert the people you choose.
Block one video, not YouTube.
One click in the YouTube report adds a rule for that video. The rest of YouTube stays open.
Let students ask for access.
Requests land in one queue. Approve a site for one student or for the whole school.
Show my class’s screens live.
Every screen refreshes every 5 seconds. The roster comes from Google Classroom.
Every Chromebook, accounted for
Each device checks in every nine seconds. When one goes quiet, its card in the classroom view says so, and the dashboard counts who is online right now.
From pilot to filtering
Set up Shepherd
0 of 4Hillside Academy
- Connect Google WorkspaceDirectory and Classroom, read-onlyConnect Google
- Install the extensionPaste the ID and update URL
- Watch for 30 daysMonitoring only, beside your old filter
- Turn on filteringWhen the reports look right
First, connect Google. Read-only, and only once.
Set up Shepherd
1 of 4Hillside Academy
- Connect Google WorkspaceRead-only · 612 people, 38 OUs, 24 classes
- Install the extensionPaste the ID and update URLID ckmf…pobdCopy
- Watch for 30 daysMonitoring only, beside your old filter
- Turn on filteringWhen the reports look right
Then paste two lines into Admin Console.
Set up Shepherd
2 of 4Hillside Academy
- Connect Google WorkspaceRead-only · 612 people, 38 OUs, 24 classes
- Install the extension498 of 512 Chromebooks checking in
- Watch for 30 daysDay 12 of 30 · monitoring only
- Turn on filteringWhen the reports look right
Then watch for thirty days. Nothing is blocked.
Set up Shepherd
4 of 4Hillside Academy
- Connect Google WorkspaceRead-only · 612 people, 38 OUs, 24 classes
- Install the extension498 of 512 Chromebooks checking in
- Watch for 30 days30 days · 1.2M pages seen, none blocked
- Turn on filteringOn since day 31 · old extension blocked
Last, turn it on and retire the old filter.
Built inside a working school
Run first at a K-12 school
Shepherd began as the filter one private Christian K-12 school needed and could not find at a fair price. It runs there every school day: about 550 people and some 118,000 requests a day.
Made by the person on call
It was written by the school’s IT administrator, the one who pastes extension IDs into Admin Console and takes the call when a lesson site is wrongly blocked. That is who reads your email.
Priced per student
Filter + Classroom
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per student, per year
- Everything in Filter
- Live classroom screens
- Google Classroom rosters
- Lock screens, open and close tabs, send a message
- Focus a class on a few sites
Complete
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per student, per year
- Everything in Filter + Classroom
- Alerts by email or webhook
- OneRoster sync
- Your old policies rebuilt with you
- An onboarding call with your IT staff
- Faster response during an outage
Start with thirty days
We set up a monitoring-only pilot beside your current filter, free for thirty days. Nothing changes for students until you turn filtering on.