If a teacher reports that students are distracted by a website during school time, you can use Advanced Search to find the website and other distracting websites. You can also check to see how often students try to access distracting websites to adjust your school’s filtering policies and share the results of your investigation.
To help you find the website, try to ask for as many details as possible, such as:
- Date and Time that the website was accessed.
- Names of the students who accessed the website.
- Description of what the website looks like or contains.
Tip
You can download your Search Results or schedule your Search Results to be sent by email or saved.
Finding the Website
- Go to Reports > Advanced Search.
- Select From Date, then select Custom, then select the Start Date (left side) and the End Date (right side).
Important
You can view up to three months of data at a time. If Advanced Search displays an error message, select a shorter date range.
- If you know when the website was accessed, use Hour of Day and drag the Start Time and End Time sliders to narrow the timeframe.
- If you know which user(s) accessed the website, on the Username setting, select is any value field and enter their username.
- Select Load (refresh icon).
Image 1: Advanced Search options.
- After the search results load, you can hide results for any allowed websites by selecting Website > doesn’t contain, then enter one or more domain names and press Enter on your keyboard.
- Select Load (refresh icon).
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Sort the results relevant to your investigation by selecting the column title and selecting it again to reverse the sort order. You can:
- Sort by Date and Time to see results around the time of the suspicious activity.
- Sort by Website to see repeat visits to unusual domains.
- Sort by Username to see if the same user accessed other distracting websites.
Image 2: Sort the Search Results columns.
Finding which users are accessing a Specific Site
After finding the website, you can create a new search to check which users accessed the distracting website(s) during class time.
- Select Dashboard actions (three dots icon) > Reset filters.
- Select Website > Contains. Enter a unique part of the domain name, then press Enter on your keyboard.
To search for multiple websites, enter a comma after each additional domain name.
Image 3: Enter a unique part of the domain name.
- Select Load (refresh icon).
- Sort your results to check for a pattern of websites, times and users.