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Locking down a childs chromebook

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  • 08-10-2020 10:35am
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    Bikerman2019
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    I am trying to make a chromebook as safe as possible for a child. I set up family link and gave her a gmail address. It now appears to be secure for unsavory websites and suitable for her usage.

    However, her school has google classroom and to access it, I had to set up another user with her school email address. This account is causing an issue as it does not appear to be locked down and when I put naughty keywords into the address bar, it gave unwanted returns.

    Anybody got any suggestions?


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    Inquitus
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    Bikerman2019 wrote: »
    I am trying to make a chromebook as safe as possible for a child. I set up family link and gave her a gmail address. It now appears to be secure for unsavory websites and suitable for her usage.

    However, her school has google classroom and to access it, I had to set up another user with her school email address. This account is causing an issue as it does not appear to be locked down and when I put naughty keywords into the address bar, it gave unwanted returns.

    Anybody got any suggestions?

    Use opendns, get the Laptop to use the IP for DNS that Opendns provides, select in Opendns the sort of content she should and should not be allowed to access. Opendns is free, and very effective at filtering. As long as she is not tech savvy enough to understand DNS, how to change it, how it works etc. it will do a very good job.

    https://www.opendns.com/


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