Districts increasingly rely on monitoring software to keep students safe and on-task when they use school-issued digital devices, but the practice may do more harm than good, according to a report ...

If you’re a parent of a K-12 student or a student yourself, your computer use is likely being monitored by your school, according to new research. The monitoring of student electronic devices by ...

The software allows teachers to monitor and control how students use school-issued computers in real time, block websites, and freeze their computer screens if they’re found to be off task.

One system, Proctorio, uses gaze-detection, face-detection and computer-monitoring software to flag students for any “abnormal” head movement, mouse movement, eye wandering, computer window ...

Among students, 19% said that such monitoring software has “outed” either themselves or someone they know – a 6% increase from the 2021-2022 school year.

Specifically, companies such as Bark, Gaggle, GoGuardian and Securly have developed technology in the form of AI-based student monitoring software that tracks students’ computer use to identify ...

Experts say school districts are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on contracts with computer monitoring vendors like GoGuardian and Gaggle without fully assessing their privacy and civil ...

Claire Bryan, education reporter at The Seattle Times, coauthored a recent investigation looking at surveillance tech in schools. She found that most devices were tracking students 24/7.

Three computer engineering students are seeking venture capital support for the BioTelemetrix technology, a non-invasive monitoring device.

A federal judge said Cleveland State University violated the Fourth Amendment when it used software to scan a student’s bedroom, a practice that has grown during the Covid-19 pandemic.