5 Excellent Google Safety Tools for Parents and Teachers
February 18, 2015
Below are some important resources from Google safety Centre to help parents keep their kids safe while browsing the online world. The resources include: online safety tips, how to find appropriate content, judging credibility of content, and managing your online reputation. Here are some examples of safety tips recommended by Google, checkout Safety Centre for more tips.
Click on any title to learn more about each tip.
1- Enable SafeSearch
By enabling SafeSearch, you can filter out most of the mature content that you or your family may prefer to avoid. If an inappropriate result does sneak through, you can report it to Google.
2- Filter YouTube Content by Enabling Safety Mode
If you’d prefer to not to see mature or age-restricted content as you browse YouTube, scroll to the bottom of any YouTube page and enable Safety Mode. Safety Mode helps filter out potentially objectionable content from search, related videos, playlists, shows, and films.
3- Control what your family Sees on The Web
If you want to control which sites your family can visit on the Internet you can use Supervised Users in Google Chrome. With Supervised Users you can see the pages your user has visited and block the sites you don't want your user to see.
4- Limit access to just approved apps and games
Want to share your tablet without sharing all your stuff? On Android tablets running 4.3 and higher, you can create restricted profiles that limit the access that other users have to features and content on your tablet. Learn more about this feature from this page.
5- Use app ratings to choose age-appropriate apps
Just like at the movies, you can decide which Google Play apps are appropriate for your family by looking at the ratings: everyone, low maturity, medium maturity, or high maturity. You can filter apps by level, and also lock the filtering level with a simple PIN code (keeping other users from accidentally disabling the filter).
Below are some important resources from Google safety Centre to help parents keep their kids safe while browsing the online world. The resources include: online safety tips, how to find appropriate content, judging credibility of content, and managing your online reputation. Here are some examples of safety tips recommended by Google, checkout Safety Centre for more tips.
Click on any title to learn more about each tip.
1- Enable SafeSearch
By enabling SafeSearch, you can filter out most of the mature content that you or your family may prefer to avoid. If an inappropriate result does sneak through, you can report it to Google.
2- Filter YouTube Content by Enabling Safety Mode
If you’d prefer to not to see mature or age-restricted content as you browse YouTube, scroll to the bottom of any YouTube page and enable Safety Mode. Safety Mode helps filter out potentially objectionable content from search, related videos, playlists, shows, and films.
3- Control what your family Sees on The Web
If you want to control which sites your family can visit on the Internet you can use Supervised Users in Google Chrome. With Supervised Users you can see the pages your user has visited and block the sites you don't want your user to see.
4- Limit access to just approved apps and games
Want to share your tablet without sharing all your stuff? On Android tablets running 4.3 and higher, you can create restricted profiles that limit the access that other users have to features and content on your tablet. Learn more about this feature from this page.
5- Use app ratings to choose age-appropriate apps
Just like at the movies, you can decide which Google Play apps are appropriate for your family by looking at the ratings: everyone, low maturity, medium maturity, or high maturity. You can filter apps by level, and also lock the filtering level with a simple PIN code (keeping other users from accidentally disabling the filter).
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