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How GAT Labs Improves Student Security and Safety at The Good Shepherd International School

GAT Labs Success Story The Good Shepherd International School

About

The Good Shepherd International School (GSIS) in Ooty, Tamil Nadu, India, was founded in 1977. Its mission is to educate students to be confident, open-minded, and passionate according to the motto “Truth, Trust, and Triumph.”

GSIS is a CIS (Council of International Schools) accredited, full-time, coeducational, residential school and an IB Continuum School, offering the Cambridge, ICSE, ISC, and IB programs. It serves 700 students aged 10-18 from over 30 countries, with 85% coming from India or Indian families living abroad.

The GSIS employs the Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals plan and provides students with 1:1 Chromebooks.

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1243 users

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About the School Admin

Prasanth Siva has been the Senior IT Administrator at the GSIS since 2017. Previously, he worked in the hotel industry in the IT sector. He uses GAT daily, as do two other team members.

What Prasanth’s Daily Work Looked Like Before Deploying GAT

Before using GAT Labs’ solutions, Prasanth counted only on the basic functionalities of Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals. With this version, it wasn’t possible to perform deep audits and monitor the school domain. For instance, online access management wasn’t an option; students could access any website they wanted. There were no such restrictions in place.

How GAT Labs Improved Student Activity Management

Prasanth believes that using GAT Suite for Education significantly impacts the management of the school domain. Using it completely changed his daily work

Alert Rules & Download Management with GAT Shield

One of the most appreciated features is automated alert rules, which enable Prasanth to set and monitor the school internet policy for students. In GAT Shield, he customizes and sets alert rules for blocking YouTube, downloading, logging, restricting browser activity, etc. Being able to manage student downloads is one of the key features of the toolset for Prasanth’s daily work. This allows him to restrict students from downloading videos, games, and other large files in the school domain. Students are limited to downloading 15 MB of educational content per person daily at max.

File Sharing Management with GAT+

Another essential policy at the school regulates the sharing of files internally and externally and managing user permissions. The policy blocks sharing Drive files with exe, APK, and video format extensions. Thanks to GAT+, students are allowed to share only educational files externally and internally (via the link with public or link with organization).

How GAT Labs Meets the School’s Vital Needs

Using GAT+ and GAT Shield, GSIS saves a lot of time monitoring and auditing the domain. Prior to using them, managing and preventing these shares took up to a whole day, whereas now, this work takes less than an hour.
Now, the IT team can precisely address the school’s security and safety needs. GAT Shield’s real-time online activity monitoring enhances their efforts for efficient cybersecurity and minimizes online risks in the school domain.

GAT+’s file-sharing restrictions and GAT Shield’s web filtering capabilities enable them to reduce online distractions and help students focus on learning. These policies safeguard student privacy, creating an extra layer of online safety and data protection.

Prasanth confirms that the GAT is helping him achieve his goals. The school sees the toolset as a key element of its long-term IT strategy.
He recommends GAT Suite for Education to other schools as a perfect toolset to manage school domains with its wide range of features, from granular auditing to real-time monitoring and web filtering.

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