Ensure CIPA Compliance in Google Workspace for Education with GAT Shield
What is CIPA (Children’s Internet Protection Act)?
CIPA is a federal U.S. law requiring all K12 schools and libraries to protect students from harmful online content and practices. CIPA compliance is requested from educational institutions that want to apply for School and Library (E-Rate) program discounts on communication services.
If your school allows children to access the Internet, you must monitor their access to inappropriate content on all school computers.
This requires you to implement the following at your school:
Internet safety policy which covers restricting access to inappropriate, harmful, and illegal online content, student security and safety, and preventing unauthorized access, disclosure, and dissemination of student personal information.
Why CIPA Compliance Matters for Schools?
Student Wellbeing Support
Robust Data Loss Prevention
Trustworthy Education Environment.
Easy Management
Safety Support
Support and Training
Classroom Screen Monitoring
Filtering Capabilities
Online Activity Reporting
How to Choose the Right Web Filtering Solution for School?
Ensure CIPA Compliance in Google Workspace for Education with GAT Shield
Equip yourself with a top-notch solution for web filtering to constantly ensure that your Google Workspace for Education domain is CIPA-compliant. Using GAT Shield, K12 admins can:
▪️ Monitor all users’ online activity in real time.
▪️ View the full URL of the pages visited by students.
▪️ Real-time customized web filtering and alerting for specific categories, URLs, or keywords.
▪️ Report live Chrome browser activity detailed insights for each user.
▪️ Search for specific keywords across the school domain.
How GAT Shield Supports
your CIPA Compliance
in Google Workspace for Education
The GAT Labs tool has a special section that helps achieve CIPA compliance in just a few clicks. GAT Shield implements CIPA compliance across the entire school domain or any selected group, organizational unit, or set of users.
When the functionality is activated, the following features are enabled:
- ▪️ A special URL filtering called “CIPA-Compliant-Category”; all sites under this category are blocked
- ▪️ Strict Safe Search for both words and images on Google
- ▪️ Restricted YouTube access
- ▪️ Blocked access to websites via IP addresses
Get our CIPA Compliance Checklist
- Chrome Browser, Google Workspace
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