WebSpy and Education
Protecting Students, Teachers and your Internet Investment.

WebSpy has been supplying hundreds of schools, colleges and education organisations with Internet usage reporting and email monitoring tools for the past 6 years. Our software solutions provide in-depth activity reports on Internet and email usage, for individuals, classes, departments and entire schools.

Recently, a number of innovative schools have extended the use of WebSpy's products to identify students who may be at risk, indicated by frequent visits to the following website categories:

Bullying counselling sites

Suicide and bereavement support sites

Domestic violence support sites

Drug abuse counselling sites

School benefits include: Assessing the impact on student’s welfare. Mitigating risk and liability. Demonstrating duty of care procedures. Improving educational productivity. Ensuring compliance to Internet usage policies. Controlling network costs and resources. Monitoring recreational usage levels.

Existing Internet procedures for students should incorporate a tailored, Personal Safety Program. This duty of care practice will reduce the associated risks of potential incidents where children, senior students and teachers are exposed to inappropriate, online contacts and material.

The WebSpy Solutions

	WebSpy Live Real Time Internet and Email Monitoring. Real-time alerting serves to assist schools in identifying and offering support to students in a proactive and timely manner. WebSpy Live provides immediate alerts for parameters, such as large file downloads, popular online chat room visits and other impeding Internet practices. Click here for more information.	WebSpy Live (click to enlarge)
	WebSpy Analyzer Internet and Email Activity Reporting. WebSpy’s range of analysis and reporting software allows any sized organisation to report on every aspect of Internet usage within the school or college. Activity reports can be produced for individuals, classes or the entire organisation. Click here for more information.	Analyzer Giga (click to enlarge)

Education Customers talk about their experiences

Don't take our word for it. Read about how our clients in the education market are successfully using WebSpy products.

New Zealand Educational Institute

Steve Coates (Senior IT Officer) says:
"Here's how it has helped us this week: - On Friday of last week we discovered that our email address had been blacklisted apparently due to SPAM being sent from our server. I had the tech chap around, he looked at the logs and declared that all was good and perhaps the addresses were being spoofed. On the strength of this I got the blacklisting removed only for it to recur on Monday.

Our ISP was adamant the traffic was coming from our site so if the SPAM was not going via our email server how was it going out? Using Kiwi Syslog we started logging the traffic on our Cisco router then pulled the logs into Webspy Analyzer Premium. As soon as we did this we could see that there was a PC on our network that was sending an unusual amount of email traffic directly to the router, hence no record in the email logs.

Thanks to Webspy we were able to identify the PC immediately, pull it off the network and clean it up. We subsequently discovered that the virus had apparently disabled the anti-virus software on the PC and had been spewing out about 250MB of sludge every day since last Thursday.

This will be reflected in our Internet bill at the end of the month plus the cost of the techo. An expensive reminder indeed! Also, our internet costs for last month were way up on normal so I looked at the logs for yesterday and found a user going to overseas on-line radio and video clip sites. We have learnt our lesson well here and will be relying on Webspy from now on to curb these nasties.

St. Michael's College

Ashley Morrison says:
"We have been using WebSpy here at St. Michael's College for many years with great success. The Webspy Analyzer Premium program has proven to be a powerful tool for tracking inappropriate Internet usage as well as having the ability to view Exchange Server logs has helped greatly in finding out usage patterns. It has proven to be so powerful that now when a user clicks on a link that takes them to an inappropriate site they report the accident, as they know it has been recorded, to ensure they don't get punished for the accident"

Australind SHS

Graeme Watson (Deputy Principal) says:
"Australind SHS uses Webspy Analyzer Standard to run a variety of reports on student internet and email usage. We find the software extremely user friendly. Webspy Analyzer enables us to address any significant downloads or inappropriate internet use. The software allows us to accesses all online data information in a timely and efficient manner."

Newton Moore SHS

Michelle Dowsen (IT Manager) says:
"We have WebSpy software installed on our School Network and we use it on a continual basis to monitor all users, this includes staff and students. Webspy Analyzer Standard allows us to monitor and control our Internet and Network Traffic and produce detailed analysis reports. Students and staff alike are aware that their access is being monitored and controlled and this has increased the level of productivity quite dramatically."

Private School France

Network Security Administrator says:
"A few months after the implementation of our Internet service, we realised that our users (students) were visiting a large proportion of inappropriate Websites. Our blocking tool is not effective enough to block the access to those specific websites without blocking legitimate education websites. By using the WebSpy Analyzer Standard software we are able to identify the source by several ways (hour, class, room, etc...). The software is very easy to use."

Camberwell Grammar School

Glenn Poutney (Director of Information Technology)
"Camberwell Grammar is one of Australia's leading private schools and it is important that our network infrastructure is exceptional. We use Optimizer to manage our Internet connectivity. By delivering all key ingredients for our network; VPN, Optimization and Firewall we have a solution that is perfect for our needs. All network applications are integrated into a single platform so the cost of ownership is kept to a minimum allowing us to focus on delivering outstanding education."

St Francis Xavier College

Geoff Smith (IT Manager) says:
"ContentKeeper more than addressed all our requirements and only took around 15 minutes to install. The results were dramatic. Our Internet bandwidth was reduced by 50% from day one."