Lightspeed Parent Portal
With so many new technologies and learning methods introduced every day, your involvement in your child’s learning is more important than ever. To support this, your school has partnered with Lightspeed Systems® to give you visibility and control of your child’s internet usage while on school-issued devices, at home and after-school hours.
Lightspeed Parent Portal gives you access to:
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The Weekly Student Online Activity Report. This report summarizes your child’s web browsing activity for the week. A copy of this report is sent to your email weekly.
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The The Lightspeed Parent Portal which delivers in-depth visibility and control over your child’s online activity. You can know exactly when and what sites your child accesses in real time; then pause screens or control app usage as needed.
About Lightspeed Systems
Lightspeed Systems has been dedicated to supporting K-12 online education for over 25 years. Lightspeed is governed by and adheres to stringent student data privacy regulations, such as FERPA and COPPA, ensuring student data will remain confidential and will not be shared, distributed, or sold to advertisers or any other parties.
How Lightspeed Captures Your Child’s Internet Activity
Devices provided by your school that are filtered by Lightspeed, intercept network traffic and allow or block websites. These decisions are made based on both the content filter category of the website and the rules configured for your student.
The Weekly Student Online Activity Report
The Weekly Student Online Activity Report summarizes your child’s web browsing activity for the week; including page visits and website host metrics.
What's Included:
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Top Websites: Top 10 visited hosts
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Daily Website Visits: Number of pages visited per day
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Total Browsed Hosts
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Average Daily Page Visits
The Weekly Student Online Activity Report will be emailed straight to your inbox every Sunday containing the Subject: Filter Portal Weekly Report and sent from: do_not_reply@lightspeedsystems.com.
Note: be sure to check your Spam folder if you have not received it in your inbox.
The Lightspeed Parent Portal
Sign Up for the Portal
The Lightspeed Parent Portal is a full web-based portal that is mobile responsive, so you can easily check on your child’s internet activity in real time and take action.
How to Enroll:
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Use the Log In or Register link at the bottom of your Weekly Student Online Activity Report email.
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Click the “Login or Register” button to create your account.
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A verification email will be sent to the email address you provided during the registration process to log in to the portal.
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Once you are in the portal, you may use the drop-down to toggle between students if you have more than one child.
Web Activity
This view provides detailed student internet activity on all sites visited after school, including a time stamp for all sites accessed, ensuring they’re safe and focused on learning.
View Allowed and Blocked Websites
The Lightspeed Parent Portal’s Allowed/Blocked web activity status allows you to check which websites are permitted and which are restricted according to your school district’s filtering policies. This feature is useful to monitor your child’s online activity and engage in digital citizenship conversations. You can easily filter the results by activity type using the “Allowed” or “Blocked” tabs.
NOTE: Only your district can make changes to your school’s web content filtering policies. You will not be able to change the status of an allowed or blocked website from within the portal.
Parent Controls During After School Hours
Lightspeed allows you to pause web browsing and manage YouTube access, while at home, during after school hours. Learn more about each of these controls below.
Our district’s after school hours are set to Monday - Friday from 3:30pm to 6:00am and all day Saturday and Sunday. These dates and times apply across all schools and are in place even on student holidays.
Pause Web Browsing
Control your child’s screen time to temporarily pause web browsing on school-issued devices while at home and during after school hours for 1 hour, 3 hours, or overnight.
Manage YouTube Access
YouTube includes rich educational content and our district is diligent about monitoring access to ensure your child can access appropriate YouTube content. Even so, your child may be spending too much time on this platform and not getting homework done. With the Lightspeed Parent Portal, you can allow or block access to YouTube after school as needed.
