Digital Distraction Report in School Manager

School Manager’s Digital Distraction Report helps identify students who may not be focused on their learning material or engaged with their learning environment. The Report compares students with their peers over a period and looks for users who are:

• trying to access blocked content more often than average, or
• generating more network traffic than you would expect for that peer group.

Prerequisites

To use Digital Distraction Report, you will need to ensure you have:

1. Configure an Authentication Service in School Manager
   

   Important

   Configure groups by year level to generate accurate reports. The Digital Distraction Report will not work correctly if you set up groups that contain multiple-year levels. School Manager compares the online usage of students in similar groups to provide accurate insights.

2. Configure Users and Groups in School Manager
3. Create Content Filtering Policies that block all these themes and categories:
   1. Malware and Hacking
   2. Mature and Explicit
   3. Gaming
   4. Social Networking (category of Social Media and Communication)
   5. Live Streaming (category of Arts and Entertainment)
   6. Shopping (category of Shopping and Travel)
4. Configure the School Calendar in School Manager. The calendar enables the distinction between on-school and off-school reporting.
5. (Optional) Configure the Outside of School Hours > Include activity outside school hours in reporting setting in School Manager if your school wishes to access reporting data beyond regular school hours.

Accessing the Digital Distraction Report

You must have the Filtering/Reporting Administrator or Owner/Global Administrator user role to access the Digital Distraction Report.

1. In School Manager, go to Reports > Digital Distraction.
2. Select From Date
   Enter a new start and end date, or select from the preset values.
   

   No Result

   Select a longer or shorter date range if the Digital Distraction Report displays no results. Although there is no limit on the date filter, we recommend selecting a period of less than three months due to the high volume of data that needs to be processed.

3. Select a Time Period
4. Select Group Name > is any value, or select a group from the dropdown.
5. Select the Load icon.

How School Manager identifies distracted students

The Digital Distraction Report reviews student activity and rates students on a scale of 0 to 8, with 8 being the highest, using three factors:

Low data users over Date Range

The Low data users category lists students with low network usage, suggesting they have also tried to access or use a VPN. It does not add points to the distracted student rating but may help you identify students trying to circumvent your filtering policies.

Download the report

Download the full report

1. Select the Dashboard actions (three vertical dots) in the upper right.
2. Select Download.
3. Select CSV from the Format dropdown.
4. Select Download.

Download a section of the report

1. Select the Tile actions (three vertical dots) in the upper right of a tile.
2. Select Download data.
3. Select CSV from the Format dropdown.
4. Select Advanced data options.
5. Select All results if you have more than 500 results.
6. Select Download.

Schedule the report

You can schedule this report to be sent on a recurring basis by email or to a secure file server using Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).