Red Flags are visual indicators that appear when a user attempts to access potentially inappropriate content or their online activity shows signs of wellbeing issues. If a user tries to access or search for content in a Red Flag category, Linewize Filter shows a Risk Indicator for that category. You can set up alerts for users who trigger Red Flags to monitor at risk users.
Using Red Flags with other reporting tools can help better evaluate a user’s wellbeing and risk level. You should investigate the cause of a Red Flag before taking any action, as there may be other reasons for the user’s behaviour.
Important
You can only see Red Flags while Chromebook, Windows, macOS, and iOS/iPadOS devices are connected to the Linewize Filter network unless your school uses Off Linewize Filter Network filtering for devices with Linewize Connect.
Red Flag Categories
Users can trigger Red Flags by accessing, trying to access or searching for content from the following categories:
| Category | Description |
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| Academic Dishonesty | Intelligent systems (AI Tools) that may be used to cheat on exams and assignments. |
| Adult Content | Sexually explicit content. |
| Bullying | Online activities causing psychological harm by repeated aggressive actions like teasing, shaming, rejecting, or criticizing a person, especially on social media or within a social group. |
| Depression |
Negative feelings interfering with healthy social and mental interactions. |
| Hate Speech | Threatening or abusive activities directed at traits and labels associated with groups of people. |
| Substance Abuse | Tobacco, alcohol, and drugs, including behaviours associated with addiction. |
| Suicide | Ending one’s life, which may include self-harm and associated behaviours. |
| Violence | Planning or threatening harm, death, or damage to people, property, or objects of emotional or financial value. |
| VPN | Apps and services used to hide online activity, anonymize a user's identity on a safe network, and bypass filtering. |
| Abuse (UK Region only) |
Content related to causing harm of any form, specifically to children. |
| Criminal Activity (UK Region only) |
Content related to violating criminal law. |
| Radicalisation (UK Region only) |
Content that causes or relates to terrorism, extremism and violence. |
Red Flag Search terms
Linewize Filter checks the phrase and words a user searches to try identify Red Flags accurately, but there could be other reasons why a user is searching for something seemingly inappropriate. Always check a user’s search terms in context before taking action.
Red Flag icons and colours
Red Flags use icons to show the type of activity and colours to show how often a user triggers a Red Flag.
Red Flag icons
User activity that triggers a Red Flag will show different icons depending on the type of activity:
| Icon | Type of Activity |
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| The user accessed or was trying to access content hosted on websites or web servers. | |
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The user searched for a particular keyword or phrase on Google, Bing or YouTube. Note Your school’s IT Support must configure inspection for search engines to show search keywords in Red Flags. |
Red Flag colours
The colour of the Red Flag shows how frequently the user attempts to access content from the particular category compared to all the other users at your school. This helps show when a user’s behaviour is an outlier to their peers.
| Risk Indicator | Description |
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Red means frequent attempts to access potentially risky content or conduct an unsafe search. Users with the highest count of red indicators will appear at the top of Red Flag lists in your dashboard, report pages, and email reports. |
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Pink shows that the user is consistently accessing, trying to access or searching for potentially risky content. |
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Blue indicates a user has attempted to access potentially risky content or use unsafe search keywords on a few occasions, typically once or twice within the selected time period. |