Shepherd filters and watches over your school’s Chromebooks by OU, schedule and campus, and shows teachers every screen in the room. Hosted for you, installed from Google Admin Console.
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The panel is Shepherd’s own policy tester on a sample school. Pick a time of day, a student or a site.
Test a site
Hillside Academy · sample policiesCategory AI chat, blocked by Middle School · Class time
Daniel Reyes · Grade 7 · 10:39 am
coolmathgames.com Games
“Mrs. Hart assigned the fractions game for homework.”
Rule added: allow coolmathgames.com for d.reyes · by admin@hillside · 10:41 am
Daniel Reyes · Grade 7 · 10:39 am
coolmathgames.com Games
“Mrs. Hart assigned the fractions game for homework.”
Rule added: allow coolmathgames.com for d.reyes · by admin@hillside · 10:41 am
Daniel Reyes · Grade 7 · 10:39 am
coolmathgames.com Games
“Mrs. Hart assigned the fractions game for homework.”
Rule added: allow coolmathgames.com for d.reyes · by admin@hillside · 10:41 am
Assign policies to OUs, groups, students or devices. Each can run on a schedule and differ on campus and at home, so the same Chromebook is locked down in class and sensible at night.
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 |
Smart detect reads searches on 15 sites and the titles of YouTube videos, against 11 lists and 619 terms with sensible exceptions. Worrying ones wait in one queue for a person to review.
Needs review
Export CSV| Severity | List | Student | Found | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Self-harm | M. Alvarez · Gr 9 | Search on Google 10:42 am | |
| Medium | Drugs, alcohol and vaping | J. Okafor · Gr 8 | “where to buy vape pods” 10:17 am | |
| Low | Filter evasion | C. Nguyen · Gr 7 | “unblocked games proxy” 9:58 am | |
| Low | Cheating | R. Patel · Gr 10 | “quizlet answers chapter 6” 9:31 am |
See what students watch, including Shorts and players embedded on other sites. Block the one video that is a problem and leave YouTube open for teaching.
YouTube · this week
1,284 plays · 212 viewersYour school’s name and colour, a plain reason, and a way for the student to ask. The request lands in the queue above.
This site is blocked
coolmathgames.com
Category: Games · Signed in as Daniel Reyes
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Teachers see their own classes, with rosters from Google Classroom. Screens refresh every five seconds, and a student who goes offline still shows on the roster.
For a test or a lesson, limit the class to the sites it needs for up to four hours. Everything else closes, and focus ends on its own.
When you need eyes up front, lock the class with one click. Open a page on every device, send a message, or close a tab the same way.
Ava Brooks
Ben Torres
Chloe Kim
Daniel ReyesGames
Ella Fisher
Felix Grant
Today · Hillside Academy
DashboardExtension 3.4.1 on 498 of 512 ChromebooksHealthy
Google Workspace
ConnectedLast sync 2 minutes ago · read-only
Teachers and admins use their school Google account. Students never sign in.
People, OUs and Chromebooks stay current from Google Workspace, read-only.
Teachers see their own classes the moment they open Shepherd.
Allow or block a site for one student, at school or at home.
Flags and access requests reach the people you choose.
History, flags and YouTube plays export for your own records.
Your name, logo and colour, with a plain reason and a way to ask.
Every device, its OU, its extension version and when it last checked in.
Run for you on DigitalOcean. Nothing to install on your network.
First, connect Google. One admin, read-only, once.
Google Workspace
ConnectedLast sync 2 minutes ago · read-only
Then paste two values into Admin Console.
Apps and extensions · /Students
Users and browsers| Extension | Installation policy |
|---|---|
| Shepherd Filter Added from a custom URL | Force install |
| Your current filter Chrome Web Store | Force install until day 30 |
Extension IDckmf…pobdCopy
Update URLget.shepherdfilter.com/extension/update.xmlCopy
Then watch for thirty days, and turn it on.
$3per student, per year
Policies by OU, user, schedule and campus; about 6 million domains in categories; smart detect with a review queue; YouTube reporting and per-video blocks; your branded block page with access requests; reports, exports and the audit log.
A school of 400 students pays $1,200 a year. Staff are free, and the first 30 days cost nothing.
$5per student, per year
Everything in Filter, plus live screens for every class with Google Classroom rosters, focus mode, and locking screens, opening and closing tabs, and messaging students.
A school of 400 students pays $2,000 a year. Staff are free, and the first 30 days cost nothing.
$6per student, per year
Everything in Filter + Classroom, plus OneRoster sync, your existing policies rebuilt with you, an onboarding call with your IT staff, and faster response during an outage.
A school of 400 students pays $2,400 a year. Staff are free, and the first 30 days cost nothing.
We set it up beside your current filter, in monitoring-only mode, free for thirty days. Nothing changes for students until you turn filtering on.