Digital Distraction Report in School Manager

School Manager’s Digital Distraction Report helps you 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 similar students to provide accurate insights.

2. Configure Users and Groups in School Manager
3. Create Content Filtering Policies that block all of these categories:
   1. Proxies & VPNs
   2. Gambling
   3. Gaming
   4. Social Media
   5. Streaming Media
   6. Shopping

Accessing the Digital Distraction Report

You must have either 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.
   
   

   Note

   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. Select a shorter date range if the Digital Distraction Report displays an error message.

3. Select Group > any value
   Enter the name of the group whose report you want to access.
4. 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 who are trying to circumvent your filtering policies.

Scheduling the Digital Distraction Report

You can send Digital Distraction Reports by email on a recurring schedule to other school or wellbeing staff.

Creating a new scheduled report

1. In School Manager, go to Reports > Digital Distraction.
2. On the upper right select the Dashboard actions icon > Scheduled delivery.
   1. If there are existing scheduled reports in your Digital Distraction Report, select New.
   2. If this is the first time this report is being scheduled, the Schedule Settings dialog will open (see the next step).
3. For Destination, select Email, then enter the recipient’s Email address and press the Enter key.

   Tip

   You can add or remove email recipients:

   1. Enter another email address and press the Enter key to include other recipients.
   2. Select the X to remove an email address.
4.  Select PDF, CSV zip file or PNG visualization in Format.
5. Select Save.
6. (Optional) Select Test now to send the report to the recipient's email.

See Scheduling Advanced Search Reports for more information on other scheduled report options and how to edit scheduled reports.