GAT Labs vs GoGuardian
Elevating Google Workspace Management & Security
Gain full admin control across the entire Google domain, not only your classrooms. GAT Labs moves beyond GoGuardian’s web filtering and student safety, providing in-depth Google Workspace for Education auditing, reporting, and security overview.
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GAT Labs & GoGuardian Feature Breakdown
While live Classroom management and web filtering are a strong suit for both tools, GAT Labs takes it a step further with comprehensive, domain-wide functionalities that audit and report security, ensure data protection, and automate administrative tasks.
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GAT Labs Product / Feature
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GAT Labs Feature Description
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GoGuardian Corresponding Product / Feature
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GoGuardian Feature Description
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GAT+
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Deep, domain-wide auditing, reporting, management & security across all Google Workspace areas, including Drive, email, Calendars, Meet, Groups, third-party apps (OAuth), users, YouTube, Looker, Contacts, and Classrooms.
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GoGuardian Admin
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Web filtering, monitoring & reporting. Provides filtering policies and general usage reporting across school devices, specifically for student activity.
Lacks deep auditing/content search for non-browser services like Drive files, Gmail content, Calendars, or Meet logs. |
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GAT Unlock
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Secure admin content access, which enables IT/Security to gain temporary, auditable, and multi-person approved access or change permissions on sensitive user data (Drive files, emails) and perform bulk security tasks.
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No corresponding feature
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GoGuardian focuses on real-time web activity and device location. It does not offer a workflow for temporary, approved administrative access to a user's email or Drive file content.
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GAT Flow
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Admin workflow automation streamlines user lifecycle management (onboarding, offboarding, user modifications) and bulk administrative tasks for Google Workspace. It automates tasks like email signature management, license assignment, group changes, and folder sharing.
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GoGuardian Admin (Roster Management, Integrations)
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Automates class rostering and session scheduling via integration with Google Classroom, Clever, etc.
No equivalent tool for admin-level bulk user management, license, or Drive migration automation. |
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GAT Shield
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Advanced, real-time monitoring & DLP for Chrome browser and Chromebooks. Provides continuous, live monitoring, web filtering, and DLP alerts based on all in-browser activity (searches, chat, downloads, extensions, specific policy violations).
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GoGuardian Admin
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Web Filtering allows for customizable policies, granular YouTube filtering, and monitoring of all student online activity. Smart Alerts notify staff of activity indicating self-harm or violence across search/web apps.
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Teacher Assist
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Live Classroom management allows teachers to monitor student screens in real-time during class, manage tabs (open, close, block), chat with students during Classroom sessions, and create temporary URL rules for the class.
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GoGuardian Teacher
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Live Classroom management enables teachers to view student screens in real-time, open/close/lock tabs, and send messages to students to foster engagement and focus.
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Taskmaster
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This tool automates the supervision and integrity checks of student assignments in Google Classroom, including checks for AI-generated content, plagiarism, and cut-and-paste activities.
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No corresponding feature
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Taskmaster is a highly specialized tool for academic integrity monitoring within assignments. GoGuardian's focus is on online safety and screen management, not assignment content integrity checks.
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GAT Labs - DLP
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Data Loss Prevention policy enforcement and granular content scanning across Drive and email content.
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GoGuardian Beacon
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Suicide & self-harm alerting focuses on identifying and alerting staff to potential mental health crises based on student activity (searches, app use). The focus is on safety rather than general DLP/Compliance.
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GAT Labs - Non-Browser Data Visibility
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Audits Shared Drive access, externally shared files, Gmail content, Calendar resources, etc.
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No direct corresponding feature in GoGuardian
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GoGuardian's primary focus is the Chrome device/browser activity. It does not provide the deep admin-level audit and management of Google Drive/Gmail/Calendar file content and metadata that GAT+ and Unlock offer.
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The GAT Labs Difference
Complete Google Workspace for Education Oversight
Our goal is to provide you with advanced tools to control every aspect of your school domain, from classrooms and student online activity to user data, device usage, and file access.
Full Domain Auditing
While CloudM focuses on backup, archive, and recovery of Google Workspace data, GAT Labs delivers real-time governance.
We audit user activity, file sharing, and third-party app risks as they happen, helping you prevent security incidents before they occur.
We audit user activity, file sharing, and third-party app risks as they happen, helping you prevent security incidents before they occur.
Data Compliance
Effortlessly ensure compliance with data protection requirements for educational institutions. GAT Labs provides live control of all sensitive data (including files shared inside and outside the domain) and alerting on data privacy threats in Google Workspace.
Workflow Automation
Save time, reduce human errors, and keep your data secure by automating repetitive administrative tasks. Schedule complex actions, such as onboarding and offboarding, with automated workflows, tailored to your school’s needs.
GAT Labs: Top-Rated Leader in Google Workspace Management
Customers experience the power of smart, secure, and comprehensive auditing and security solutions built specifically for Google Workspace and Chrome environments. Go beyond standard administration, secure your domain with a proven suite trusted by educators and businesses worldwide.
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Three Reasons Schools Choose GAT Labs
Forensic-Level Auditing Across Every App
GAT Labs provides visibility into every corner of your domain, including activity in Classroom, Meet, Chat, and Gmail, ensuring your audit trail is complete, unlike general management consoles.
Real-Time Endpoint Security
GAT Shield provides real-time monitoring within the Chrome browser, tracking keyword searches, uploads, and page visits to close gaps left by console-only tools and safeguard student well-being online.
Secure, Compliant Access Workflows
GAT Unlock’s multi-person approval system ensures investigations are fully transparent and audit-proof, thereby ensuring compliance with strict data protection requirements.
“GAT+ adds capabilities not available in Google Workspace, making managing Workspace content so much more accessible. The continuous expansion and improvement of features means the products get better and better. For us admins, it's a day-to-day tool we can't live without any more”.
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Management & Security
- What are the core functions of GAT Labs in an educational Google Workspace environment?
- What functionalities does GoGuardian provide, particularly for web filtering, student monitoring, and classroom management?
- How do GAT Labs’ auditing and security capabilities differ from GoGuardian’s real‑time classroom and browsing controls?
- In what ways might GAT Labs offer deeper administrative insight and forensic investigation than GoGuardian?
- What advantages could schools gain by choosing GAT Labs instead of, or in addition to, GoGuardian?
- What trade‑offs or challenges might a school face when deciding between GAT Labs and GoGuardian?
- Propose a 5‑step decision plan for a school IT team to evaluate whether to deploy GAT Labs, GoGuardian, or a combined solution.