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Create a Smart Alert Trigger in GoGuardian Admin that uses the Games category to detect likely non-educational gaming content and automatically block websites that generate matching alerts.

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Understand Games Detection

Smart Alerts for Games analyzes webpage content for signals associated with online games and game-hosting websites. This helps identify gaming content on new or uncategorized websites, including sites hosted on multipurpose platforms such as GitHub or Google Sites. Games detection complements traditional category and URL filtering rather than replacing it.
The Games detection model does not run on websites categorized as Educational or Appropriate. This exclusion helps reduce unnecessary alerts for known instructional and appropriate content.

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Create Trigger to Block Games

  1. Go to the Smart Alerts page in GoGuardian Admin and select Triggers.
  2. Click Add New Trigger.
  3. Enter a name for the Trigger, such as “Middle School Games.”
  4. Select the organizational units (OUs) to apply the Trigger to.
    OU coverage cascades to child OUs. A Trigger applied to a parent OU also covers the child OUs beneath it. To apply the Trigger to all users in your organization, select the root OU, displayed as /.
  5. In the category dropdown, select Games.
  6. Select the confidence threshold for the Trigger. This determines how confident the detection must be before the Trigger’s Actions run.
    If the Trigger responds to too many inaccurate alerts, increase the confidence level.
  7. Under Choose an action, select Block Content to automatically block the website that generated the matching alert. You can combine this with other Actions, such as Notify and assign or Message student. See Understand Trigger Actions for details. GoGuardian Admin Games Trigger configuration showing selected OUs, High confidence, and the Block Content Action.
  8. Click Save to activate the Trigger.
  9. Verify the result: The new Trigger appears in the Triggers list with the selected OUs, Games category, and confidence level. Its configured Actions run when a Smart Alert matches those conditions.

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Review Games Alerts

  1. Go to the Smart Alerts table.
  2. In the Category filter, select Games. GoGuardian Admin Smart Alerts Category filter with Games selected to show gaming alerts.
  3. Click Apply.
  4. Open a Games alert to review the student, website, timestamp, and other available details. GoGuardian Admin Games alert details showing browsing activity, user information, and the Share feedback section.
  5. Under Share feedback, indicate whether the detected content is a game.
Smart Alerts are generated even when no Triggers are configured. To automatically block detected gaming content, configure a Games Trigger with the Block Content Action.

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Last modified on October 12, 2026