We use this for all of our devices, from iPads and Chromebooks for the students to staff workstations and it all works flawlessly.

The product is very straightforward to use, implementation was easy and quick. Their support is absolutely fantastic.

Everything that was a con has been fixed or the feature was added.

Lightspeed allows easy integration with our digital catalog and gives most teachers user level control of their student's digital experience.

Lightspeed is easy to deploy across our medium sized network (15,000 devices). Training teachers and getting them up and running quickly made the product a solid choice for our 1000 teachers.

The end user experience for the teacher could be improved. Other products have features like desktop management that are cleaner and more visually useful for classroom teachers. Especially at the lower grades, I would expect a product with Lightspeed market share and reputation to have a more user friendly experience for the teacher. More grouping, drag and drop, visual cues would help elementary teachers want to use the product more. We find only our most comfortable users taking full advantage of the product. It should be accessible to all end users equally.

State mandates to use a filter soo no other real choice available

Live alerts on web surfing activity for users

Sometimes the filter is TOO restricted and must add to a list to allow access

Overall a positive experience. Every product in this space seems to have drawbacks but overall Lightspeed has been good.

For the most part works well as a K-12 web filter. There's a good amount of features. The integration with Google allowed us to import our students pretty easily. Deployment to Chromebooks was also pretty simple. Updating data is a little slow but this isn't unique to Lightspeed and works well enough. Pricing is pretty reasonable.

There are a few things I wish were implemented, like an easier way for staff to whitelist sites for students that they may need for class, without having to notify the administrators about it. The Smart Play feature is interesting but has too many false positives and false negatives (but it's a hard problem). I wish reports were a little more detailed, and could be exported or shared in more pretty formats.