Case Study
Nemo Vista School District is a public school district based in Center Ridge, Arkansas. Sammie Beene heads up District Instructional Technology. In this Q+A, Sammie explains what drew her district to digital monitoring in the first place and why they selected Linewize Monitor in particular.
Sammie Beene
District Instructional Technology
Interview with Sammie Beene:
Student safety is extremely important in our district. We know the risks we can see with our eyes and ears but a student at risk in his/her digital life is far more difficult to spot. It was an area we wanted to get on top of.
We trialled a monitoring solution last year, but it didn’t really fly. I wear multiple hats and get hundreds of emails every day and this just seemed to add to the noise and significantly increase the workload rather than provide new and authentic value. But we weren’t at all sure if there was a better way of doing things.
Then I received an email from Smoothwall (which is now known as Linewize). I knew from the information they shared, it was a different way of working. When they walked me through it, I could see really quickly that it was something we had to explore further.
Very likely. But that’s no one’s fault. You can’t see what you can’t see. Students have active digital lives now and very often that world excludes parents and teachers. We can’t supervise them as we would want.
Linewize Monitor allows our kids to have that rich digital experience but if things go awry, provides a safety net that kicks in and alerts us - and within minutes of the incident occurring. We can then intervene with the full evidence of what’s happened and help that student in the best possible way. I can’t tell you how reassuring that is.
We deployed the technology for no cost for a few months, through Linewize's Student Safety Audit. This allowed us to properly learn about human moderated digital monitoring without any financial risk.
A key factor for us was not wanting our students under constant surveillance. That didn’t feel right. But that’s not how digital monitoring works. It only becomes active if a student types something that indicates they’re in danger or at risk, or becoming vulnerable.
We don’t have to spend hours trawling through endless alerts to find the serious ones. Linewize Monitor does that for us. The human moderators email us only for serious alerts and if it’s a very serious alert, they phone us. In a busy working day that is exactly the kind of proactive support we needed.
Within days we were notified of incidents we would never have seen without it.
Then we received some level 5 alerts. One of which was so severe I can’t disclose it, but it was enough for our Principal to fully commit to having this form of technology on a permanent basis.
Sammie Bean
District Instructional Technology
I would say it is a vital form of student protection. But it has to work within your school. Make sure your solution doesn’t just send you a ton of alerts all day and every day.
Make sure the provider has a team of humans who will separate the serious risks from the not so serious ones and make you aware of what you need to see. This shouldn’t add to your workload or your stress levels. It should be something you truly value.
We happily pay for Linewize Monitor. It’s that important.
Get the PDF version of Nemo Vista's success story using Linewize Monitor.
Talk to an expert or book a demo. Our cyber safety experts are waiting to help.
Sign up for our newsletter to get all the latest product information.
Subscribe to our newsletter
We use cookies and similar technologies to make our website work, to understand how it is used, and, with your permission, to personalise content and show you relevant advertising on other platforms. Some of these technologies are provided by our partners. Essential cookies are always on, because the site cannot function without them. Everything else stays off until you choose to turn it on. You can accept all, reject all non-essential cookies, or set your own preferences, and you can change your choice at any time. For more detail, see our Cookie Policy and Privacy Notice.
In the US? You also have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information and to limit the use of your sensitive personal information. Manage these under "Your US privacy choices".
While some cookies are necessary to make our website and services function properly, consent for all non-essential cookies has been automatically declined. You can change your preferences at any time. To find out more about the cookies we use, see our Cookie Policy and Privacy Notice.
Privacy Centre
Choose which cookies and technologies you are comfortable with. Essential cookies keep the site secure and working, so they are always on. You can switch the other categories on or off, then save your choices. You can return here at any time to change them. See our full list of cookies.
These cookies and technologies are needed for the site to work safely and reliably. They support core functions such as security, network management, bot and fraud protection, and remembering your privacy choices. The site cannot run without them, so they cannot be switched off.
Providers: Cloudflare, HubSpot
We use a set of cookies that are optional for the website to function. They are usually only set in response to information provided to the website to personalize and optimize your experience as well as remember your chat history.
Providers: HubSpot
These help us understand how visitors find and use our website, including which pages are viewed and how people navigate and interact with them, so we can improve it. Some of this involves recording how pages are used. We do not use this information to advertise to you.
Providers: Google, Hotjar, HubSpot, Microsoft.
These let us measure how our campaigns perform and show you relevant advertising on third-party platforms, such as search engines and social media. They involve sharing limited information with advertising partners, who may combine it with data they already hold. For US visitors, turning this category on allows the "sale" and "sharing" of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under US state privacy laws.
Providers: Google, HubSpot, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit.
If you are a resident of a US state with a comprehensive privacy law (such as California, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Virginia and others), you have additional rights over how your personal information is used. You can exercise the choices below without affecting your access to our website.
When our advertising and marketing technologies are active, we may sell or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. To opt out, switch off the Advertising and Marketing category above, or use the toggle here.
Where we process sensitive personal information, such as precise geolocation, you can ask us to limit its use to what is necessary to provide our services and other purposes permitted by law.
We recognize browser-based opt-out preference signals. If your browser or device sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we will treat it as a valid request to opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information for that browser or device.
We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16, and we do not use it for targeted advertising, without the consent required by law. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without verifiable parental consent.
Changed your mind?
You can withdraw or update your consent at any time using the "Cookie settings" link in our website footer.