This article is for IT support with a School Manager physical appliance.
Safe Search is a service run by Microsoft and Google to remove mature content from search results in Bing, Google Search, and YouTube Search. You can configure your School Manager physical appliance to enforce Safe Search only if they have HTTPS Inspection enabled and handled by the School Manager physical appliance (Mobile Agent > On School Manager Network).
Tip
We recommend installing Linewize Connect, whenever possible to reduce the load on your appliance and have the user’s local device enforce Safe Search.
Before You Start
To enforce Safe Search, HTTPS Inspection must be enabled to monitor and filter the search terms your user submits to Bing, Google search, and YouTube search.
Optional, you can segment your Safe Search configuration into custom Safe Search profiles. You can identify a range of IP addresses, the subnet for a group of devices or create Object Pools with MAC addresses or IP addresses.
Enabling Safe Search
- Go to Filtering > Safe Search.
- Select ADD RULE.
- Select Edit (pencil icon).
- (Optional) Click Select Criteria in Groups and Devices and then add the identity of the users or devices.
| User | Pick a single user name from a list |
| Group | Pick a list name from your predefined Groups |
| Network Range | Type the starting and ending IP addresses for a range of devices |
| Network | Type IP address and subnet mask for a group of devices |
| IP Address | Type a single IP address |
| IP Address Object | Select one of your pre-configured Pools of IP Addresses |
| MAC Address | Type the MAC address of a single device |
| MAC Address Object | Select one of your pre-configured Pools of MAC addresses |
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Leave the Criteria blank if you want to apply the Safe Search configuration to all users.
- Select Enforced in Google Safesearch to enforce age-appropriate Google Search results (websites and images).
- Select a fair use category from the Usage Rights list for images students might copy from a Google Image Search.
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Select Not filtered by license if you want all images displayed, regardless of the fair usage rights associated with the image.
You can go to the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) “Web Statement of Rights” which is tracked in Google Image Search.
- To enforce age-appropriate video results, select Moderate or Strict in Youtube Safesearch.
- Strict mode blocks videos, comments, recommendations, and YouTube search results based on School Manager’s filtering categories for the most sensitive viewers.
- Moderate mode adds some limited access topics appropriate for older students who need legitimate access to topics such as war history, social issues or human biology.
- To enforce age-appropriate search results in Bing, select Enforced in Bing Safesearch.
- Select SAVE.
Repeat the steps if you need to create different Safe Search criteria for a separate group of users or devices.
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