Katie Fritchen

ManagedMethods

The EdTech migration caused by remote learning is creating chaos for district IT managers The EdTech migration started before the COVID-19 crisis, but the pandemic forced school districts across the country to jump into remote learning almost overnight. As a result, cloud-based EdTech became a replacement for classroom learning rather ... Read More

2020 is shaping up to be a doozy of a year for everyone. K-12 school districts, in particular, are going through a lot. From COVID-19 to remote learning to impending budget cuts, teachers, staff, student, and parents are finding ways to adapt to the times. Through it all, much of ... Read More

How secure is Google Chat for K-12 cyber safety & security risks? Many districts are struggling with the question: how secure is Google Chat? The education community has found that Google Chat is an excellent way for students to communicate with teachers, and for faculty and staff to communicate with ... Read More

Google Chat security & safety monitoring is critical for in-person, remote, and hybrid learning environments The COVID-19 pandemic forced an overnight change in the education process. One day, students were learning in shared classrooms and the next day districts had to close the schools. School districts across the U.S. rose ... Read More

Google Chat monitoring will help you stop data loss and a variety of cyberattacks against your students Many teachers and students use Google Chat, which makes Google Chat monitoring a requirement for school districts for a variety of reasons. Particularly after the transition to remote learning when COVID-19 struck, Google ... Read More

Is Your District’s Use of Google Chat CIPA Compliant? Google Chat CIPA compliance and G Suite for Education security are bigger issues today than in the past. The coronavirus has forced many districts to transition to remote learning while schools are closed. Before the pandemic struck, there was already a ... Read More

ManagedMethods rolls out new cyber safety & security monitoring capabilities, anti-phishing protection, and advanced reports & auditing Like most of the rest of the world, our product development team set up shop in their own home offices back in early March. But that doesn’t mean they’ve been taking a vacation! ... Read More

These Google Meet best practices will help your IT team monitor activities to protect school data and detect student safety signals G Suite for Education is helping school districts succeed with remote learning, and Google Meet is a big part of that capability. Admins need to help teachers and students ... Read More

School districts need to respond to the massive increase in Google Meet use It’s a new day. While cyber safety and security is critical for school districts all the time, the massive shift to remote learning has made monitoring Google Meet to keep students safe and districts compliant extremely difficult ... Read More

Prevent Data Loss and Compliance Issues with Google Drive Security Google Drive security is a big issue for K-12 IT teams, even before the unexpected move to remote learning and working. Now that monitoring data security, student safety, and student data privacy compliance just got a lot more difficult, IT ... Read More