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Jeffrey M.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/11/2020

"Lightspeed Relay is Simple to use."

5/5

What do you like best about Lightspeed Filter?

Easy to link with powerschool and our google server settings. The reports are full of useful information that can be easily distributed to the administration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed Filter?

That it doesn't filter BYOD. That I need to use a rocket. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lightspeed Filter:

You won't find and easier web management system that filters what you need filtered, that is also easy to setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed Filter solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows devices to go where you want them to go. I am able to see where most of the internet traffic is going. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AE

Verified User in Education Management

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/9/2020

"Lightspeed Systems Relay Review"

5/5

What do you like best about Lightspeed Filter?

What I like best about Relay is the reporting functionality. It makes it really easy to drill down to the specifics of what a user or users have been viewing. It is also very easy to deploy to our student Chromebooks to allow filtering even when off our network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed Filter?

We had some difficulty with the Mac and Windows Relay clients early on, but those have been resolved. The Chrome extension works flawlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lightspeed Filter:

Consider using Active Directory or Google as your user and group management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed Filter solving and how is that benefiting you?

Relay allows us to filter our students' Internet activity no matter where they log in from. The Chrome Relay Agent is simple to deploy from G Suite and helps protect our students from inappropriate content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Nathan F.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/10/2020

"Lightspeed works! A few rough edges, but great overall product."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Lightspeed Filter?

I have access to whatever information I need, whenever I need it. And working at a small private school as the only technology resource, this makes life that much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed Filter?

There seems to be to much lag time when moving between reports or pulling up the initial information that I need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AE

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/24/2020

"As of late, the experiences have been somewhat troublesome."

1.5/5

What do you like best about Lightspeed Filter?

I do like the ease of pinpointing a student's usage, although lately I have been unable to download their usage and send it back to an Admin or teacher. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed Filter?

The inability to add a student to a class, Or modify certain things that are inaccurate from the GG$L link that we are using to populate our classes with teacher and student information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lightspeed Filter:

They really need to hire more technicians that can actually answer questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed Filter solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are seeing what we can and cannot allow with our filter, based upon usage and the amount of hits the students are trying to attempt to login to and the genre of their requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Alex R.

mobile technology assistant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/24/2020

"JSD Relay usage"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Lightspeed Filter?

I like the fact that I can get as granular as I want with my filter policies. I also like that it will filter my students anywhere that they use their school account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed Filter?

At current, I am having trouble getting the safety check portion up and running. I have yet to contact support about it, but I will in the coming weeks and I am sure that they will get it taken care of as I have always had good experiences with their support. Also, sometimes the management portal is a little sluggish. I am not really sure why this is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lightspeed Filter:

The setup and usage is fairly easy, the only thing that I would recommend is to set aside an afternoon when you are not bothered to get everything going. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed Filter solving and how is that benefiting you?

Desktop monitoring and web filtering. One of the portions of relay that has been handy is the teacher's ability to see what is going on while the students are on their Chromebooks. They love this capability. It allows them to keep the students on task and to make sure that they are not doing things that they don't need to be doing. This becomes handy for our AMI days, as the teachers can help students from home as well. As long as they are logged in and the teacher is in the classroom relay portal, they can click on the class that the student is in and see what the student is working on and help them if they are having trouble. This has been a great feature for the last couple of years since we have started to work with these days in place of snow days, helping to keep our students from having to go to school later in the summer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AE

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/9/2020

"Lightspeed to the rescue!"

5/5

What do you like best about Lightspeed Filter?

We are able to manage our students learning by being able to redirect their in-class experience to stay on task, monitor their behavior online on or off school premises as well as knowing they are searching safely! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed Filter?

There are times not all students appear in classes as they should. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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John S.

Technology Integration Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/24/2020

"Relay has streamlined our filtering"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Lightspeed Filter?

Safety Check has been the most valuable to me. Even though many of the alerts are not actionable, I would rather have that than missing even one authentic alert. Filtering by category is also a godsend. We would never get the level of filtering we need if we had to enter each category. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed Filter?

We have a lot of requests to see history for specific students. While we can do that, it's usually not appropriate in the cases in which it's requested. It's not really a dislike about Relay, however. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AP

Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/9/2020

"easy to use and robust"

5/5

What do you like best about Lightspeed Filter?

The simplicity of the interface is remarkable as well as the management and integration with the relay classroom is awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed Filter?

At this moment i havent find anything that i dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jeff R.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/24/2020

"Works great in our 1-to-1 Chromebook district"

5/5

What do you like best about Lightspeed Filter?

The platform is very easy to use. There is a ton of detail in the reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed Filter?

We had some issues with the SmartAgent on our Macbooks at first, but with the latest release, those seem to have disappeared. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lightspeed Filter:

If using in a chromebook / google environment, make sure that your google admin console settings are set up correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed Filter solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have to provide filtered web access to students, and keep them from accidentally getting to inappropriate content. This does the job. With the alerts, and the ability to dig into a users browser history, behavior management is easy. When you can show a student (and the parents if need be) exactly which sites were visited, and exactly what search strings were used, it is easy to determine intent, and to address that behavior. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AP

Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/9/2020

"Relay"

5/5

What do you like best about Lightspeed Filter?

Relay is nice as it allows us to filter school owned chrome books whether we are on campus or remote. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed Filter?

Sometimes it over filters teachers when they are at home on their home machine, but happened to be logged into their google account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.