> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.goguardian.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Overview > Classroom management tool used by 2M+ teachers to review student activity, guide devices, and maximize instructional time in real time. GoGuardian Teacher is a real-time classroom management tool used by more than 2 million teachers. It gives you visibility into student browsing activity and direct control over student devices — so you can keep every student on task without interrupting your lesson flow. **Supported platforms:** ChromeOS, Windows, macOS, iOS iOS deployment support is included. Check with your IT administrator to confirm your district's iOS deployment configuration. ## Review Key Stats | Stat | Detail | | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 15.3M+ students | Supported in classrooms | | 1 week | Of instructional time saved per teacher each year | | 97% | Of educators say Teacher helps them uphold classroom management best practices | ## Review Key Capabilities See every student's active tab and browsing activity as it happens, from a single dashboard. Close off-task tabs, open specific URLs, or lock students to a single site — all without leaving your desk. Push a set of specific websites to every student's device simultaneously to start a lesson or activity in seconds. Highlight an essential tab so students see a clear visual indicator of where they should be working. View student screens as thumbnail tiles. Share your screen with the whole class for demonstrations. Send and receive private messages with individual students without disrupting the rest of the class. Broadcast a message to all students in an active session at once. Start an audio or video call with your class directly from the Teacher dashboard. Temporarily override your district's filtering policy to block or allow specific sites for your class during a session. Divide your class into groups and apply different settings, sites, or Scenes to each group for differentiated instruction. Set up recurring or one-time sessions that match your school schedule, including block scheduling. Sync your class roster automatically from Google Classroom, Clever, or ClassLink. ## Start a Class Session 1. Go to [teacher.goguardian.com](https://teacher.goguardian.com) and sign in with your district credentials. Your district may have configured single sign-on (SSO) via Google or Microsoft — if so, use that login option. 2. Your classes appear on the dashboard. If your district uses Google Classroom, Clever, or ClassLink, your rosters sync automatically. You can also create a class manually and invite students by link or code. 3. Click **Start Session** on the class you want to open. Students who are signed in and have the GoGuardian extension active will connect automatically. 4. Once the session is active, the dashboard shows each connected student's name, active tab, and browsing history for the session. Use the toolbar to take action on individual students or the whole class. Students connect to your session automatically when the extension is active — you don't need to send a join link. If a student does not appear, confirm the extension is installed and they are signed in to their school account. ## Use Scenes A Scene is a saved collection of websites you can push to every student's device at once. When you activate a Scene, Teacher opens the specified URLs on all connected student devices simultaneously — eliminating the time spent waiting for students to navigate to the right place. To create a Scene: 1. Open the **Scenes** panel in your Teacher dashboard. 2. Click **New Scene** and give it a name (for example, "Math warm-up" or "Research activity"). 3. Add the URLs you want students to open. 4. Save the Scene. To use a Scene during a session, select it from the Scenes panel and click **Activate**. You can apply a Scene to the whole class or to a specific Custom Group. ## Set Focus Tabs Focus Tabs let you mark one open tab as the priority tab for the lesson. When you set a Focus Tab, students see a visual indicator in their browser showing which tab they should be working in. This is useful for keeping attention on a specific resource without closing other tabs students may need. To set a Focus Tab, open the **Tabs** panel during an active session, locate the tab you want to prioritize, and select **Set as Focus Tab**. ## Create and Manage Custom Groups Custom Groups let you apply different settings to different students in the same session. You might use this to give advanced students access to additional research sites while keeping a different set of restrictions for the rest of the class, or to differentiate a project activity by reading level. To create a Custom Group: 1. During an active session, open the **Groups** panel. 2. Click **New Group** and select the students to include. 3. Apply a Scene, filtering override, or other setting to that group. Groups you define carry over to future sessions with the same class. ## Review Integrations GoGuardian Teacher integrates with the rostering and identity tools most districts already use. | Integration | What it does | | ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **Google Classroom** | Syncs class rosters and co-teacher assignments automatically | | **Clever** | Pulls district roster data for automated class setup | | **ClassLink** | Syncs rosters via ClassLink OneRoster | | **SSO (Google / Microsoft)** | Teachers and students sign in with existing district accounts — no separate credentials required | Teacher works alongside GoGuardian Admin. Teachers can make temporary filtering overrides during a session without creating IT tickets, while Admin enforces the district's base filtering policy at all times. ## Frequently Asked Questions Teacher gives you Custom Groups and Scenes to tailor the learning environment for different students in the same session. You can apply unique filtering rules, open different sets of websites, or push different resources to each group simultaneously — without managing multiple dashboards. Features like Scenes and Focus Tabs mean every student is on the right page in seconds rather than minutes. Automations handle routine tasks like guiding students to lesson materials, and teachers report saving approximately one week of instructional time per year as a result. No. Teacher is a cloud-native platform that integrates with your existing SSO and rostering systems — Google Classroom, Clever, and ClassLink. Roster sync is automated, so your IT team does not need to manually manage class lists or user accounts. Teachers can handle temporary filtering needs directly during a session — for example, allowing a site that the district policy would normally block. This self-service capability reduces the volume of requests IT receives for one-off content access. Teacher's intuitive interface also reduces training-related tickets from new staff. Yes. Teacher runs on cloud-native infrastructure built to handle thousands of concurrent teacher sessions and tens of thousands of student devices. It is designed for low latency even at district-wide scale.