The response to our new product for YouTube filtering at BETT 2010 was fantastic and we were delighted to hand over the first appliance to Bolton Council last Thursday at the show.
The council will be deploying Media Filter to schools in its area to help them take advantage of YouTube media content in a secure [...]
At BETT 2010, which starts today, we will be unveiling Bloxx Media Filter, a secure web appliance which enables schools and students to obtain all of the educational benefits of online social media content, such as YouTube, in a safe and secure online environment.
The Bloxx Media Filter lets teachers quickly identify curriculum related YouTube video [...]
As the new academic year gets underway, ICT managers will be steeling themselves for the ongoing battle of trying to prevent students using anonymous proxies to get unfiltered access to the entire web.
Bloxx has just issued a press release that again highlights the dangers and risks of anonymous proxies in education.
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Bloxx announced yesteday that Schoharie Central School District in New York use its Web content filtering appliance to monitor and protect its staff and students.
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The UK’s Office for Security and Counter Terrorism - a department of the Home Office - has just released an updated document that highlights the risk posed by Violent Extremism content which is readily available on the Web.
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The Bloxx Web filtering appliance has added the new Bing search engine to its SafeSearch blocking. The Bloxx appliance can be set up to automatically enforce SafeSearch on search engines, even when users try to change the settings.
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The BBC has reported that a Scottish teacher who posted messages discussing her pupils on a social networking website is being investigated by her employers. You can read the full story here.
The secondary teacher in Argyll and Bute is understood to have posted up to 38 updates a day on the Twitter site and based [...]
When you think about the challenges of providing a safe and secure learning environment in education, you might reasonably believe that the focus is almost entirely around students.
But as a couple of stories that surfaced in the UK press in the last week so have shown, if schools and colleges put all of their efforts [...]
The UK government has released anti-extremist guidelines for colleges to adhere to following a number of cases involving students using college facilities to promote terrorism. The report by the Department for Universities and Skills and the Association of Colleges, recommends that higher education establishments ensure they monitor staff and students’ internet activity and report anything [...]
Most organisations these days have some sort of web filtering installed on their network. However, even though you have filtering, your users and network may not be fully protected and it may cause you all sorts of problems.
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