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Learn about upcoming events, K-12 edtech insights, back-to-school tips, student mental health resources, software implementation and utilization, and more, from the experts at Lightspeed on the Lightspeed Systems® blog.
Lightspeed Classroom Management™
Creating a Seating Chart in Lightspeed Classroom Management™
Did you know you can create a seating chart with Lightspeed Classroom Management?
Digital Citizenship
Top 3 Ways Lightspeed Systems™ Helps Schools Foster Digital Citizenship
Even people who work with students probably don’t realize just how much time kids spend online. For teenagers, that number goes up to 7 hours and 22 minutes.
Lightspeed Filter™
What Are Your Kids Doing Online? Here's How to Keep Parents Informed
Happy new year from Lightspeed Systems! It’s just the beginning of 2018 and we’re ready to share a major new feature release in Lightspeed Filter™ (formerly Relay). 1.
Data and Analytics
What We Learned About K-12 Students From 147 Million of Their Online Searches
If you had to guess, how many online searches does the average K-12 student perform in one month? And how many websites do they visit? What noneducational sites or topics
Data and Analytics
What Millions of Student Searches and Page Views Can Tell Us About Their Digital Habits
If you tuned into our blog last week, we revealed some fascinating insights about student web behavior, courtesy of our new data science team.
Data and Analytics
Can You Guess the 30 Most Popular Websites Among K-12 Students?
In our last blog post, we revealed the most popular online searches by K-12 students in school districts using Relay.
Data and Analytics
We Analyzed Thousands of Student Web Searches About Suicide. Here's What We Learned
In our day-to-day work at Lightspeed Systems, we’ve seen how a deeper understanding of user behavior can lead to life-saving interventions, particularly for students dealing with mental health...
Lightspeed Filter™
Keeping YouTube Safe: How to Ensure Your Students Get the Best Content (And Not the Rest)
Safe YouTube Learning in K-12 schools has always been a challenge. Recently, the tech industry uncovered millions of uploads that, on the surface level, appear innocent. 1. 2.
Cyberbullying
Strategies to Stop Cyberbullying in K-12 Schools
With so much technology at their fingertips, most students today have unprecedented access to texting, chats, apps, and online content. And cyberbullying can have lasting effects.
Lightspeed Filter™
10 Tips for Take-Home Chromebooks
More and more schools are realizing the benefits of sending devices home with students: It enables 24/7 learning, gives students access to all their resources, builds their technology skills, and...
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