Built by a school IT admin
Shepherd started in a school, not a sales deck. It was written by the person who keeps a private Christian K-12 school’s Chromebooks running, and it still filters that school every day.
Today · Hillside Academy
Dashboard- Online now
- 412
- Pages today
- 38,906
- Blocked today
- 1,217
- Flags to review
- 3
- Open requests
- 2
- Focus sessions
- 4
Extension 3.4.1 on 498 of 512 ChromebooksHealthy
Where it started
Our first school needed what every school needs from a filter: policies that follow the bell schedule, teachers who can see their class, a way to notice a child in trouble, and reports a principal can read. The commercial filters did those things at district prices, with district complexity.
So its IT administrator built one. It now serves about 550 students and staff, and handles about 118,000 requests on a school day.
Shepherd Filter is a service of Timothy Roe Computer Services, LLC, the IT company behind it.
Assignments · /Students/Middle School
Filtering| Policy | When | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Middle School · Class time | School day Mon–Fri 8:05 am – 3:10 pm | On campus |
| Middle School · Testing | Testing week Apr 13–17, 8:05 – 11:30 am | On campus |
| Middle School · Home | Any time | Anywhere |
What we believe about filtering
This site is blocked
coolmathgames.com
Category: Games · Signed in as Daniel Reyes
Questions? help@hillside.example
A fence, not a cage
A good filter keeps out what children should not see and gets out of the way of learning. Most of a school day should never meet a block page.
Watch with care, not suspicion
Smart detect exists to help a counselor notice a student who is struggling, not to build a file on every child. Flags go to people you choose, and every review is recorded.
Teachers first
A blocked lesson site costs a teacher the class period. Requests, per-video YouTube rules and focus mode are there so teachers get an answer in minutes.
Your data is your school’s
We keep it in the United States, never sell it, and delete it when you leave.
Who Shepherd is for
Christian and private K-12 schools first, and small districts after them: schools on Google Workspace with managed Chromebooks, where the IT team is a few people or one.
If that is your school, we would like to hear from you, whether or not you are ready to switch.
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
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.
Start a 30-day pilot