Lightspeed Filter

KCSIE and Prevent Duty Compliant Web Filtering Powered by Lightspeed

At Coconnect we have chosen to work with Lightspeed due to their dedicated focus to supporting online education. Their focus has allowed them to design innovative systems that are easy to use and specific to the needs of School leaders, DSLs and Network Managers.

Lightspeed’s unwavering focus in education has helped them develop some of the most-up-to date enterprise class software that is rapid and easy to deploy. But most importantly produce reports and systems that are easy to use and interpret by DSLs, School leaders and governing bodies.

With over 25 years of experience in education, Lightspeed take privacy and security seriously. They’ve got strong safeguards in place to keep your students’ data secure.

Lightspeed Web Filtering

Lightspeed is one of the worlds largest School Broadband filtering systems and is 100% focused on Education. They are proud to support over 23 million students, across 31,000 schools in 42 countries, with more than 15 million devices in use.

Protect Students from harmful online content

Ensure KCSIE compliance on every device, app, browser, operating system, and learning environment. Lightspeed Filter, purpose-built for education and powered by the most comprehensive database in the industry, protects students from inappropriate online content on- and off-site network—virtually anywhere students are learning.

Support for every device

You probably have a mix of devices at your school or trust. Lightspeed helps you simplify your management and reduce the time you spend configuring systems. Lightspeed Filter™  uses SmartAgents™  for  Chromebooks, Mac, Windows, and iOS. It also filters BYOD and other devices. This means all your web filtering is covered, no hardware required, in a single, time-saving system.

Lightspeed Benefits

Lightspeed’s portal provides a full 360 view of student and staff online activity, enabling DSLs to look for warning signs on every school owned device.

How Lightspeed Web Filtering works

Lightspeed Categorisation System

Lightspeed’s categorisation system is continually updated by their AI and content database team, incorporating lists from third parties like the Home Office and the Internet Watch Foundation. Their AI sorts hundreds of thousands of websites into over 100 categories daily, ensuring a safe digital learning environment

Delegated access

Coconnect or your ICT Team can allow delegation to staff to access your Lightspeed system. Safeguarding leads can monitor alerts and view reports, while your ICT team can change filtering rules to suit the school or trust.

Easy to use and sharable reports

Lightspeed provides an easy use and navigate reporting system, providing a full 360 view of student activity, for both filtering and monitoring from a single portal.

Share fully interactive reports easily with other members of staff, parents or other bodies for set periods of time without having to export as PDF or CSV

Parent Portal

Lightspeed Parent Portal, schools can provide parents with ability to view and control over their child’s internet use on school owned devices, at home and after school.

Social Media Control

Lightspeed provides in-depth Social media controls including blocking access to sites like Facebook, X (formally Twitter), Pinterest and Instagram. Or providing read-only mode allows access to social media platforms but restricting the ability to post, comment and chat with friends

BYOD & Agents

Lightspeed Smart Agents authenticate users automatically and apply the correct filtering and reporting based on user login, both at school and whilst at home if using a school owned device. For BYOD, Lightspeed uses its Smart Agent to authenticate devices against local Active Directory, AzureAD, or GSuite.

YouTube Smart Play

Lightspeed offers schools and trusts a unique way to use YouTube via their Smart Play system.

Smart Play categorises millions of YouTube videos as educational, blocking non-educational content and controlling thumbnails, comments, and sidebar videos.

Malware, Phishing and proxies

Lightspeed Filter automatically blocks new and unknown sites whilst their categorization system is running. So, if there’s a new malware site that pops up overnight, you don’t have to worry about students finding it in the morning.

Lightspeed Filter actively blocks unauthorised proxies from use.

Cloud DNS & SmartShield

Lightspeed Filter delivers two options, Cloud DNS Filter and Lightspeed SmartShield™ , to make sure your school or trust is covered for BYOD and IoT devices such as Interactive screens. These two solutions can be either implemented individually or together to provide additional protection.

How Can We Help?

We’re a broadband provider that specialises in supplying top notch internet to schools all over the UK. But broadband is just the tip of the Coconnect iceberg! Our safeguarding, security anti-virus, firewalls and cloud services are also available to keep your school running like a well-oiled machine.

So if you fancy checking out what we can do for your school, just fill in your details and we’ll get back to you!