What about when my child is at Beaufort?
At Beaufort we have many different methods of protecting our students. Our internet connection comes from the South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL). The SWGfL, amongst other things, provides a filtered internet connection for the vast majority of schools in the South West. They will filter out inappropriate content before it reaches the school. The technicians at Beaufort also have the option to add more sites to the filtered list as an when they are discovered. As there are hundreds of new sites being made every minute we are always playing catchup.
In addition to the filtered internet connection, we run a software package called Impero on all machines.
Impero allows the school to monitor what applications are run, websites visited, documents printed, deleted files etc. It also has a built in violation list, so if a student accesses inappropriate content, or types an inappropriate word it will take a screenshot of the computer and save this to a log. If a teacher is monitoring the class it will also flag up a violation on their machine, alerting them to the computer and user. The log is checked by the technicians on a weekly basis.
We also have an acceptable use policy that every user has to accept when they logon. Read the acceptable use policy .
