This is what high school teachers see when they open GoGuardian, a popular software application used to monitor student activity: The interface is familiar, like the gallery view of a large Zoom call.

A student works on a computer at a K-12 school in Provo, Utah. School districts across the country have adopted computer monitoring platforms that analyze what students are doing on school-issued ...

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A new report from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) found that computer technology — like artificial intelligence (AI), content filtering, and student activity monitoring — poses risks to ...

This story originally published online at The 9th Street Journal. Gaggle, a school surveillance and safety management software that has generated criticism since being introduced in Durham schools, ...

Districts increasingly rely on monitoring software to keep students safe and on-task when they use school-issued digital devices, but the practice may do more harm than good, according to a report out ...

Several universities have given up using software to detect the use of artificial intelligence in student work.

Student monitoring software recently initiated by the Cumberland Valley School District for learning devices assigned to district students in grades 5-11 was a focus of public ire at a district school ...

Tell us about your experience with automated tools meant to detect suspicious student behavior. By Kashmir Hill We are no longer accepting submissions. Some of the responses were included in this ...

In today’s Internet age, the Keylogger is an indispensable solution for monitoring the activity of users of a computer. Parents can use this tool to monitor their children while they work on the ...

During the summer months, we are often asked what kind of computer a student is expected to bring to campus. Importantly, no student is required to provide their own computer for success at UMass ...

There’s a new privacy backlash brewing in schools, and it could be about to escalate rapidly. Software that enables students to sit supervised exams in their bedrooms when unable to travel has quietly ...