GoGuardian Parent App

Welcome to GoGuardian Parent!

GoGuardian Parent is a mobile app to help keep parents/guardians aware of your children's browsing activity and more. GoGuardian Parent is a companion to the classroom management and internet filtering tools that St. John’s uses on the laptops issued to the middle school students. Through the use of this app, we hope to keep open communication with you about your student’s use of their school issued device.

 

What is GoGuardian Parent?

GoGuardian Parent was created to help parents better support teachers and administrator by allowing you to see what your child is browsing during the day. You have a better idea of what websites they are visiting most often. This gives you a better idea of your child’s browsing behavior while on school devices, making it easier to work together with St. John’s to encourage more effective and appropriate browsing habits at school and home.

 

What's the intention of the app?

GoGuardian Parent allows for you to take a more active role in your children’s online habits. This helps create a sense of transparency of your student's online browsing activity while at school and at home. 

 

What is included in this app:

• Top 5 summary of student browsing (extensions, documents, and websites visited)

• Teacher interventions (closed tabs and locked screens)

• 30-day view of websites, videos, documents, and extensions

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1. Download and open the application

Download the GoGuardian Parent App available on the Apple App Store and Google Play.

 

Apple App Store: HERE 

Google Play HERE. 

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2. Enter the email address for authentication

Once the application has loaded, follow the on-screen prompts to authenticate the application with your email address you provided the office during registration. 

 

If this is an incorrect email, please contact the office or Mrs. Miles to correct your email.  

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3. Email verification

*After successfully entering your email address, a prompt will appear "Please check your email - Click the link in your email to log in." 

*Check your email on your phone for a link to log in to the app. Tap the "Verify your email", and it will take you straight to the app. 

*Proceed to check your email and click the link within the email to complete verification. If the link does not work, use the PIN provided within the email within GoGuardian Parent to complete verification.

 

4. Review terms and conditions

After successfully entering the email address, proceed to read the terms and conditions for GoGuardian Parent by navigating to the bottom of the text box. After reading the terms and conditions, click the checkbox to confirm review of the text and click the "I Agree" button.

 

NOTE: If the message "You must review the Terms of Service to the end to continue" appears after clicking "I agree," be ensure that the text has been reviewed by reading to the bottom of the text within the text box and click the checkbox to confirm.

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5. Explore GoGuardian Parent

After successfully signing in, choose a student account to review activity from the "Your Students" page. Depending on the administrative configuration, you may have access to the following information depending on your school or district's configuration:

1. A list of the student's top 5 Top visited domains and GSuite files.

2. All browsing activity by domain is logged within the Chrome browser for the student's managed Google account.

3. You are able to set “screen limit” times for at home.

4. Block any websites you do not want them using. (Remember the schools parameters will override the parents’ during the school day.)