29 June, 2021
We continue to work on improvements to School Manager by adding more powerful search capabilities to Diagnostics, Edge Networking, and Configurations. Moreover, this update also now allows you to report and flag searches within Youtube.
We have fixed a few bugs that prevented some configurations from appearing in a few rules and report pages, as well as made small adjustments to navigation and support details.
Core Dumps now features search functionality. Core Dumps search allows administrators and Linewize technicians to search for configurations or groups of configurations, and this translates to your ability to fix issues more quickly and accurately.
Search is now available in the Reports and Alerts page to help you locate emailed Reports and Alerts configurations. Simply enter a keyword in the Search bar and the page will filter the list for you.
School Manager now has the capability to filter YouTube searches for terms that are configured in the Filtering rules, keyword object pools, and certain predefined signatures.
The Mobile Apps page has been deprecated and removed from the Cyber Safety section. If you still wish to access this feature, contact the .
We have fixed an issue with changing passwords that used to refresh the page for some users without prompt. Now, you can stay on the page when you reset your password. We also added a nifty toggle to view or hide your new password.
We have fixed an issue where Cyber Safety groups were unavailable from the Activity and Compliance dashboard. It is now easier for users to jump from one group to another via the group selection drop-down list on the Activity and Compliance page.
We have updated our support email address. To contact technical support via email, send your help and info requests to edusupport@familyzone.com.
A bug that prevented updated names of Time Periods from appearing in Edge Networking > QOS > Edit Rule has been removed. Now you can see the updated Time Periods’ names when you set up rules on quality of service.
We have fixed an issue where the DirectIP option in editing rules did not appear consistently when users typed this option. With the issue resolved, typing “DirectIP” in the Criteria Type selector for a rule brings it up instantly.
It is now possible to search Log Files using alphanumeric and special characters. Whereas the search function in Diagnostics > Log Files used to accept numbers only, you can now add letters and special characters when you search log files.
14 June, 2021
We’re continuing our work to make it easier to sort and arrange data in reports. We’ve also introduced an improvement to user authentication and made a couple of tweaks to make your School Manager experience better!
We have added another layer to the security of your data by introducing encryption to LDAP credentials.
We’re continuing to improve the way we present data in tables. With new sorting capabilities, more reports than ever can be rearranged according to column headers and sorted in ascending or descending order.
Users now have more control over how they view the following tables:
We removed a little bug that prevented users from saving new time period configurations unless the Add button was clicked. Now new time periods created in Objects > Time Periods > Add Time Period are saved instantly just by pressing Enter. Of course, clicking the Add button is still an option.
We’ve removed the “Browser Extension Connection Reporting” toggle from the Device Options page. If you need to enable this feature, please contact Linewize Support (United States (844-723-3932) | Australia 1300 687 052 | New Zealand 0800 445 206).
31 May, 2021
This version of School Manager introduces improvements to Safe Search, configurations, and reporting. We have also added improvements in the exported versions of the Student Journey Report, which is currently on limited release with our partner test schools.
The Safe Search page now allows administrators to manually reorder Safe Search rules. As some rules take priority over others, it is important to be able to place them manually in the right order: from top to bottom based on priority.
Simply click a rule’s Move (+) icon and drag the rule up or down the list. School Manager will then process the rules according to the order configured by the administrator.
This manual configuration replaces the previous way of rearranging Safe Search rules that required administrators to click on column headings.
School Manager’s Diagnostics > Coredumps page now features sorting capabilities that allows users to sort core dumps by date and time, or by filename in ascending or descending order. This should make it easier to spot configuration conflicts.
We have renamed our Emailed Reports page to Reports and Alerts to reflect the way School Manager informs teachers and administrators about their students’ online activities. You will still receive all messages as emails, including weekly and daily reports, about your students’ online safety, or real-time alerts when their actions trigger red flags. Check it out by going to Filtering > Reports and Alerts!
As we continue to polish the way content filtering rules are created and managed, the Quarantine function for editing rules has moved from being experimental to an established feature.
When an administrator enables Quarantine on a Content Filtering rule, users’ internet access will be suspended each time they trigger a red flag on that rule.
20 May, 2021
This release adds a number of improvements to the Student Journey Report. We continue to work with beta testing partner schools to ensure this new reporting tool provides a better understanding of how students use online resources and access information.
We have also enhanced our configuration pages by improving the way users view data, while squashing a few bugs along the way.
In this edition of School Manager, you can now filter and rearrange data by table headings in ascending or descending order. The sorting feature is also available to MDNS Bridge and Networking Interfaces configuration pages.
The Firewall configuration page also lets you move firewall rules up and down the list, letting you prioritize certain rules in the system. Simply click the Move (+) icon and drag the rule up or down.
With focus on students’ cyber safety, we’ve introduced better ways for School Manager users to access, review, and export reports.
On the Red Flags page, the most severe or common risk indicators are presented at the top by default. In addition, users can sort Red Flags reports by username or full name in alphabetical order, making it easier to locate and track individual students in schools with bigger student populations.
On the Student Journey Report, the latest data are placed at the top of the web page and, as in other reports, users can sort data according to column headings:
We’ve made it possible for users to keep track of the character limit as they enter their comments before generating PDF versions of Student Journey Reports. The notification appears when there are only 50 characters (or less) left in the Cover Page Comment field, or if the character limit has been exceeded.
By adding comments in exported Student Journey Reports, administrators and relevant staff can highlight the most salient points of their students’ online journeys.
We fixed a previously reported issue with exported Student Journey Report where the times recorded did not match the School Manager device’s location. Now the Student Journey Report reflects the time zone of the School Manager device, making exported data accurate and mroe relevant to school administrators and reporting staff. The Time/Date column on the Student Journey page also features this update.
We streamlined the list of Classwize configuration features, so watch this space for more updates.
3 May, 2021
We're continuing to work with our beta testing partner schools to develop the first phase of the Student Journey Report to ensure it meets your needs. The Student Journey Report is our new and improved reporting tool designed to help you better understand your students’ online journey based on data that School Manager captures.
This release allows you to include comments on Student Journey Reports exported as PDFs, letting you add more context to your reporting. We've also introduced more improvements to the interface’s functionality. The Student Journey Report (and all other reports!) will now stop the header row from scrolling off the screen when displaying large data sets, and more tables have the sort feature, allowing data to be displayed according to table headers, in ascending or descending order.
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