Bob K.
BK
Bob K.
Director of Technology
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Awesome Chromebook Integration for Our Chrome Fleet"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Blocksi?

The Chromebook integration is awesome! Blocksi makes it ready to deploy to our Chrome fleet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blocksi?

We use a BYOD program in our Upper School. Is love to see an easier way to integrate Blocksi on those devices other than using Blocksi DNS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mike V.
MV
Mike V.
Teacher
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Eyes on Learning"
5/5
What do you like best about Blocksi?

Instant understanding of student activity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blocksi?

When you heads up a class and they close computers they often stay in heads up when they're no longer headset up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eric T.
ET
Eric T.
Technology Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great for Monitoring Students While They Work"
4/5
What do you like best about Blocksi?

The teachers are able to monitor the students while they are working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blocksi?

Unable to monitor more than one class at a time, so cannot have several open. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shane P.
SP
Shane P.
Technology Director
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Blocksi"
5/5
What do you like best about Blocksi?

Customer service has been amazing. Always there ready to help no matter what. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blocksi?

Searching for specific student data can be hard to find. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education
AP
Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Strong Student Web Safety, Though We Don’t Use Blocksi to Its Full Potential"
3/5
What do you like best about Blocksi?

It blocks inappropriate sites and keeps web use safe for our students. They helped set up the site and answer any ongoing questions. The annual price is reasonable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blocksi?

I don't think there are many downsides but I also don't think that we as a school use Blocksi to its full potential. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
AE
Verified User in Education Management
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy Access to User Analytics Whenever You Need Them"
4/5
What do you like best about Blocksi?

It’s easy to find user analytics whenever I need them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blocksi?

Creating a block list or penalty book isn’t easy, and it doesn’t always save properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Terry H.
TH
Terry H.
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"School System's Initial Experience With Blocksi"
4/5
What do you like best about Blocksi?

After using a number of other filtering systems over the past 25 years, we dropped our most recent filtering partner and selected Blocksi. Here's what we like, based on our experiences of the past 3 months.

1) Blocksi updates fast. Once you get the Blocksi Chromebooks extensions rolled out, you can make a change in a filtering profile, and students see the effect within a few seconds.

2) The Blocksi dashboard is very informative, showing blocked versus filtering sites, most blocked students, videos, etc.

3) Blocksi's student safety feature is nice. It in the few months we have had it, it has alerted us to several situations where students were feeling depressed and possibly considering self-hard.

4) Blocksi for Teachers has some great features that may lead us to replace our current student monitoring system for teachers.

5) Company has been very proactive in reaching out to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blocksi?

1) Blocksi for Teacher appears to have some bugs related to screen sharing and importing lists of blocked or allowed URLs.

2) Individual student reporting could use more detail, such as a list of visited URLS by date and time.

3) Policies applied to a parent OU in Google are not automatically inherited by child OUs. You can set them to inherit, but we had to do this individually by child OU. I'm not certain if there is a setting somewhere that would make policies inherit by default. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel O.
DO
Daniel O.
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Blocksi meets are expectations and more."
5/5
What do you like best about Blocksi?

Blocksi is a beneficial and intuitive platform that has provided multiple features for users here at our schools since day one of implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blocksi?

If you have not used a content filtering platform like this before there is a learning curve, but the technical support is very helpful and knowledgeable about getting the answers and solutions you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brian V.
BV
Brian V.
Technology Director
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Bait and Switch"
2/5
What do you like best about Blocksi?

The first 2 years were great. We were given the teacher dashboard and admin dashboard. I could set up global things for everyone and do general blocking and help for the teachers.

Apparently we were not paying for the admin dashboard even though we got it for the 1st two years of our 3 year contract. At the start of the 3rd year they killed the admin dashboard and told us that we would have to pay $9200 to have it back.

Needless to say we will not be gong back after our contract is up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blocksi?

If students create a link to the teacher chat they can open that window which will send an alert when a teaccher starts to view their screen. Students can then close their browser and the teacher is unable to see what they are really doing.

Really turns in to a classroom management thing but frustrating none the less. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mrs. Rosana D.
MD
Mrs. Rosana D.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy to use"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Blocksi?

Customer Support with blocksi is amazing! They are easy to chat with and often get back to me quickly. Blocksi was easy to implement into the classroom and is used almost everyday in all the classrooms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blocksi?

At times it is difficult to know why something is not working without using costumer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.