Securly is a digital safety platform designed specifically for K-12 educational environments, and its core product safetyOS integrates multiple layers needed for student safety into one intelligent platform. According to the official introduction, the platform is used by more than 26,000 schools and over 20 million students.
In terms of purpose, Securly aims to help schools prevent students from accessing content they should not see, flag signs of distress so teams can intervene early, and keep classrooms focused and hallways orderly. District and school leaders can view all information through a unified view.
Main capabilities include:
- Web filtering: the first cloud-native content filter built specifically for K-12, supporting student protection on any device, anywhere. It features AI-driven website classification and proxy detection, the Securly Home App for parents with customizable controls, EdTech Analytics, patented iPad filtering, Filtering SmartDNS, and more.
- AI transparency: providing visibility and control to embrace AI safely. This includes setting guardrails for AI use, viewing every prompt, an AI usage overview dashboard, working across multiple third-party AI tools, policy-driven guardrails, a transparency dashboard, prompt-level visibility, and filtering and monitoring of third-party AI tools.
- Safety monitoring: AI-driven safety monitoring that can detect before behavior escalates into a crisis. It analyzes online activity for signs of cyberbullying, self-harm, and violence. It features the most comprehensive online safety monitoring, case management, wellness levels, proactive safety, human-driven alerts, and more.
- Classroom management: Securly Classroom lets teachers see in real time what students are doing without leaving the front of the classroom, supports screen sharing, locking devices, pushing resources, and more, can block native apps, and can view the full desktop of Windows and Mac devices. It features screen monitoring, eliminating distractions, full Windows and Mac support, and integration with Filter and Pass.
- Digital passes: replacing paper passes, reducing classroom disruptions, ensuring accountability, preventing gatherings, and improving campus safety. It now includes tardy management, visitor management, and PBIS at no additional cost.
- Home app: used by more than 1.5 million parents, it allows parents to view their children's activity on school devices and apply controls when devices are brought home. Features include offline schedules, weekly email reports, optional safety alerts, and multilingual support.
- District and school insights: measuring the actual usage of school devices,Turn screen time into provable screen value. View screen time by district, school, grade, and student, with only active screens counted during the school-selected time period, track the approval status of each authorized app, and automatically publish the approved list. Includes a screen time dashboard, app and website usage, subscription management, and state reporting.
How to use: A school or district can deploy the Securly platform to protect student devices through a cloud-native filter, teachers can use classroom management tools, and parents can use the home app. Specific deployment and integration methods are not described in detail in the provided materials.
Use cases: K-12 schools and districts, for web filtering, student wellness monitoring, classroom management, AI usage transparency, digital passes, parent engagement, and more.
Limitations: The materials do not provide pricing, specific technical limitations, or system requirements. Securly complies with FERPA, COPPA, GDPR, and SOC 2 Type 2 certification, and does not sell, rent, or trade student data, nor use it for advertising.