How to unblock google classroom for my kid's school ipad?

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Wan Huang

• March 10, 2019 22:09

I am blocking video/social/games always for my kid's school ipad. However, google classroom which he needs to write his homework is also blocked if I set these rules. I checked the site lists and didn't see anything like "googleapi.com". How could I unblocked google classroom while blocking all other game or social activities? Thank you.

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  Firewalla

  • March 11, 2019 00:34

  Although it may be easy to detect video ... it is hard to know the content of the video at the network layer.    We are working on a set of rules that will white list site, but ... to do that, you will have to know what URL google class room is accessing.    Do you have that data point?

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  Michael Hager

  • April 09, 2020 14:06

  We have the same issue.  I have to unplug the firewalla unit for kids to use google classroom and I am so disappointed.  The website for it is https://classroom.google.com/.  Please help us use firewalla with google classroom.

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  Firewalla

  • April 09, 2020 15:22

  Hi

  Can you check what other blocks are active on the kids' device?  (video/gaming...)?  

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  Dirk Zwart

  • April 28, 2020 23:59

  I also have this issue. We cannot get to Google classroom unless I turn off safe search, family protect, and ad block.

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  Firewalla

  • April 29, 2020 04:40

  What is the high level link of the google classroom? we can take a look.  

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  Dirk Zwart

  • April 29, 2020 15:07

  Https://classroom.google.com
  This also connects to drive.google.com if that helps.

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  Firewalla

  • April 29, 2020 19:15

  Very likely it is the safe search that's preventing this from running.   Try just turning it off (it may take up to 10 min to have the cache flush out)

  Safe search really is an internal search function, which firewalla can help you to turn it on.   We believe internally safe search uses content marketing by publishers ... so some may not mark their content as safe for kids

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