Lightspeed Systems

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been the hottest topic among educators over the past year since ChatGPT made its mainstream debut last November. Much of the discussion, however, has been one-sided, focused on generative AI ’s abilities to enhance student learning outcomes. But AI offers so much more for educators, including the ability to save precious resources, the most precious of all which might be teachers’ time.

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Lightspeed Systems

OCTOBER 25, 2023

We’re excited to announce the launch of our highly anticipated Merge Classes tool in Lightspeed Classroom Management ! With this new tool, teachers can easily combine classes to monitor and manage in one place. That’s right—keep an eye on every student, share messages, and apply web rules and class controls faster and more efficiently than ever before.

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Lightspeed Systems

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Time-Saving Tool Allows Teachers to Quickly Combine Sections to Manage Classes and Monitor Students in One Place Austin, Texas —October 24, 2023—Today, Lightspeed Systems®, the edtech market leader in digital safety, security, and equity solutions, announced a new Merge Classes feature of its Lightspeed Classroom Management product, saving teachers time and allowing them to teach more effectively by easily combining sections and managing classes in one place.

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Lightspeed Systems

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Equipping Teachers to Manage Academic Honesty in the Classroom Academic integrity is a foundational tenant of education; it always has been, and it always will be. As such, academic dishonesty—student “cheating,” for example—has always proven a pain in the arse for educators. With enabling technologies at the fingertips of students at every grade of the K-12 spectrum, there’s a tendency for some to consider cheating a byproduct of today’s Information Age.

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Lightspeed Systems

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Over the past year, no topic has been more discussed among K-12 educators than artificial intelligence (AI) and, in particular, generative AI. in the classroom. As an application, generative AI learns from existing, input data to generate new content that reflects the characteristics of the training data but does not repeat it. Thus, generative AI can produce a wide variety of new content, including images, videos, music, speech, text, software code, and more.

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Digital Equity Module Empowers School Districts to Bridge the Digital Divide and Empower All Students to Excel Austin, Texas—September 19, 2023—Today, Lightspeed Systems®, the edtech market leader in online student safety and learning effectiveness, announced its Lightspeed Digital Insight product, along with its integrated Digital Equity module, was recognized as a winner of this year’s Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Back to School 2023 in the Primary Education category.

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

What is your school district’s biggest student safety and wellness challenge? Is it staffing and resource shortages? District liability concerns? Perhaps it’s an inability to keep up with the 24/7 needs associated with student safety and welfare? Or, does your district suffer from inadequate technologies? Those were the questions posed at the very start of the webinar, “Confronting the New Reality of Today’s Student Mental Health Crisis,” featuring Christi Frias , Student Services Director

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Confronting the New Reality of Today’s Student Mental Health Crisis School districts are facing an all-hands-on-deck moment as the reality of today’s worsening student mental health crisis sets in. For districts like San Marcos USD in California, technology is providing the opportunity to augment staff resources and allow teams to develop collaborative solutions to better identify and support students.

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Confronting the New Reality of Today’s Student Mental Health Crisis School districts are facing an all-hands-on-deck moment as the reality of today’s worsening student mental health crisis sets in. For districts like San Marcos USD in California, technology is providing the opportunity to augment staff resources and allow teams to develop collaborative solutions to better identify and support students.

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The rise of mobile technologies and the Internet of Things (IoT) has had an enormous impact on K-12 schools, both inside and outside the classroom. Connected devices are seemingly everywhere, from interactive whiteboards to connected security cameras, from web-based systems managing equipment to IoT-enabled GPS tracking systems monitoring the location and movement of school buses.

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As a school district IT professional, you have a web content filter deployed to be in compliance with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). However, your role as a school district IT professional has grown more important and more difficult than simple CIPA compliance. Comprehensive web content filtering is mission-critical to effective digital learning, particularly since schools have provided devices to students for learning.

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As a school district IT professional, you have a web content filter deployed to be in compliance with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). However, your role as a school district IT professional has grown more important and more difficult than simple CIPA compliance. Comprehensive web content filtering is mission-critical to effective digital learning, particularly since schools have provided devices to students for learning.

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, technology plays a pivotal role in enhancing the teaching and learning experience. Educational apps have become valuable tools for educators to engage students and streamline classroom activities. However, with the vast array of educational apps available, it’s essential for school districts to establish clear guidelines and procedures for app approvals to ensure students’ safety, data privacy, and the alignment of apps with cu

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Access to education fundamentally changes life outcomes. And after all, isn’t that the penultimate goal of our overworked educational community? For a long time, technology enabled access to education. Gradually, learning management systems created efficiency and awareness, along with, admittedly, a healthy dose of frustration. Recently though, the COVID-19 pandemic put a turbo-boost on this evolution that would put Barry Allen (aka, “The Flash”) to shame.

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

While not new, generative AI (artificial intelligence) has rapidly ascended to the top of the K-12 education scene this year, creating fervor amongst a community with much to resolve already—declining benchmarks, limited budgets, staffing shortages, enrollment declines, and student wellness concerns to name a few. Since its coming out party in November 2022 , generative AI has education leaders scrambling to discover its wide-ranging implications.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 31, 2023

On June 13, 2023, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Texas House Bill No. 18, the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act, also known as the SCOPE Act. The SCOPE Act requires covered digital service providers to provide minors with certain data protections, prevent minors from accessing harmful content, and give parents tools to manage their child’s use of the service.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 29, 2023

An important issue in today’s digital learning-fueled K-12 educational environment is the concept of digital equity and closing the digital divide. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), whose Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel coined the phrase “the homework gap,” nearly 17 million schoolchildren are without internet access at home. Digital equity and closing the digital divide have risen to become a top priority for school district administrators across the country.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 25, 2023

Overview OVERVIEW With a strong focus on data governance, Fayette County Public Schools partners with Lightspeed Systems® to effectively manage their edtech ecosystem—in and outside of the classroom. Lightspeed’s Engagement & Impact solution provides Fayette County with a comprehensive, easy-to-use solution that ensures student data privacy, empowers teachers to manage devices within the classroom, and enables smart and informed edtech decision making.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 25, 2023

School districts across the nation face an uphill battle when it comes to providing adequate mental health and safety support to students. The Great Resignation left school safety teams short-staffed and overwhelmed—a dangerous combination as school violence is on the rise and student mental health is on the decline. Download your copy of the 7 Strategies for Improving Student Safety with Technology ebook to learn how safety and mental health teams can use technology to improve student safety, r

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 24, 2023

Within K-12 education, there is no greater priority than student welfare. Student welfare is the mission that brought so many of us to the space. Everything else pales in comparison. Student welfare, of course, is comprised of many elements, including teaching and learning, student mental health, student safety, and, importantly, student data privacy.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lightspeed Alert scans vast amounts of information and flags potentially concerning text or images, creating alerts that district and school staff then follow up on in the real world. However, not all alerts are the same. An alert that contains potential child pornography, for example, is quite different from an alert that flags two students using flirtatious language.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 22, 2023

Lightspeed Systems has been a leader in the web content filtering category for over twenty years, and when you have been in a space for that long, you uncover a lot of tips to share with others. Some are learned by asking clients, some are learned by years of observation, and still others are learned from the hard lessons of trial and error. Most importantly, you learn how to anticipate the future of sneaky students and increasing risks.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 21, 2023

With the mass proliferation of digital learning tools in recent years, digital distractions run rampant. Educators need to ensure students use them properly to advance their learning. Classroom management apps help with that, offering teachers visibility into students’ online activity so they can spot students who are getting off-task or struggling to keep up with their peers.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 16, 2023

Overview Central Bucks School District (CBSD) partnered with Lightspeed Systems to address the significant challenges they faced with their previous inline web filtering solution. With over 17,000 students and a diverse range of devices, including iPads and Windows laptops, the district struggled to provide students with a safe and productive online environment due to reliability issues, poor reporting capabilities, and inadequate support from their existing filter provider.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 17, 2023

Technology-enabled education has been on an upward trend for well over a decade. The global COVID-19 pandemic only accelerated the adoption by school districts across the entire K-12 spectrum. Technology, both the internet and the mobile devices it enables, offers almost unlimited opportunity. However, it is also rife with challenges to both educators and students alike.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Challenge When Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) began deploying its 1:1 initiative several years ago, the district’s instructional and technology teams worked closely together to ensure teachers had the support and professional development required to ensure the initiative was a success. Now that the district has successfully made the digital leap, VBCPS leaders are asking themselves what’s next in terms of leveraging their digital learning tools, devices, and data to further impac

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 16, 2023

KTAL news recently wrote an article about Caddo Parish Public schools focus on student safety and how the expansion of their use of the Lightspeed systems platform was received positively by students. Read the Article The post Student safety technology received positively by students as Caddo Parish Public Schools integrates Lightspeed Systems platform appeared first on Lightspeed Systems.

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Lightspeed Systems

JUNE 9, 2023

THE Journal is dedicated to informing and educating K–12 senior-level district and school administrators, technologists, IT professionals, and tech-savvy educators who serve the nation’s public schools, so they may improve and advance the learning process through the use of technology. Launched in 1972, THE Journal was the first magazine to cover “Technological Horizons in Education,” which has since come to be known as “ed tech.” They recently wrote an article about our new Di

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Lightspeed Systems

JUNE 15, 2023

Powered by Lightspeed – How Hays CISD Empowers Staff to Support Student Safety, Wellness, & Engagement Hays Consolidated Independent School District’s safety, IT, and classroom leaders join Lightspeed for the next webinar in the Powered by Lightspeed Series. You’ll hear how Hays CISD harnessed the power of a single platform to transform its approach to student safety.

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Lightspeed Systems

JUNE 26, 2023

AUSTIN, TX (June 26, 2023) – Lightspeed Systems , the leader in helping districts provide safe, secure, and equitable learning technology, unveils new visibility on generative artificial intelligence (AI) use by students through Lightspeed Digital Insight , new AI web filtering categories for Lightspeed Filter , and an updated, time-saving interface for Lightspeed Classroom Management.

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Lightspeed Systems

JULY 5, 2023

Austin, Texas – July 5, 2023 — Lightspeed Systems® (“Lightspeed”) the leader in safe, secure, and equitable education technology, has won the prestigious 2023 Tech & Learning Award for Best of Show for its innovative product, Lightspeed Digital Insight —with notable recognition for its Digital Equity module. This standout solution from Lightspeed was selected from among the top achievers in the edtech sector.

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Lightspeed Systems

JULY 20, 2023

Lightspeed Parent Portal™ Download the Flyer Home Empower parents as partners in their students' learning​ With the Lightspeed Parent Portal, school districts can empower parents with visibility and control over their child’s internet usage on school-issued devices, at home and after-school hours. School IT administrators can granularly select what settings parents can view and manage, so they can easily stay informed and take action, playing a key role in promoting responsible digital cit

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Lightspeed Systems

JULY 20, 2023

Lightspeed Parent Portal's YouTube and social media controls pave the way for a more secure and enriching digital journey for students. With the continuous introduction of new technologies and learning methods, it’s more important than ever to ensure students are safe and focused during digital learning, both after school and at home. Therefore, collaboration between parents, guardians, and educators is key in fostering digital citizenship.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 3, 2023

While sometimes feared, technology is often a perfect match for us humans. Technology, of course, is dependent on humans creating it. Once created, technologies, when properly applied, increase humans’ productivity and efficiency. We have seen this synergistic pairing from the advent of fire, through to invention of the wheel and all other technologies, leading us up to today, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 9, 2023

From violence and thoughts of death in Hamlet to the dramatic double suicide at the end of Romeo and Juliet , the works of Shakespeare are filled with troubling themes. Student assignments about these works often contain phrases that, taken out of context, may look concerning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems designed to flag signals of students in crisis.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 9, 2023

Solution(s): Lightspeed Alert , Lightspeed Filter Keep your district—and your students—safe from cyberattacks For years, cyberattacks have been a source of concern for K-12 schools, and studies show, cyberattacks against school districts are rising. This means cybercriminals regularly launch successful attacks that could have been prevented by following the most up-to-date security practices.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 15, 2023

September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and throughout the month, mental health advocates, prevention organizations, survivors, allies, and community members will unite to promote suicide prevention awareness. It’s a critical subject for educators nationwide. Among children between the ages of 15 and 19, suicide is the second leading cause of death.

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