Chrome Support Articles

Peninsula School District is testing blocking the Safari Web Browser in the macOS Labs. Reasons: GoGuardian Teacher Effectiveness - For macOS Computers specifically, Students screens are only visible in GoGuardian Teacher when Google Chrome is open. - Students do also need to be signed into Chrome, but that is something that is required. In other words, you cannot use Chrome unless you're signed in with your PSD account. - Having Safari available allows Students to browse the internet (which is still fully filtered by Securly) without their screens being monitorable in GoGuardian Teacher. - If a Student is using Safari or doesn't have Chrome open, their macOS Computer screen will look like this in GoGuardian Teacher: Safari lacks the management capabilities to block Offline Games, etc. compared to Google Chrome - Safari lacks many of the management capabilities that Google Chrome provides. - It's been reported that Students are downloading web-based games (typically .HTML files) to Google Drive or USB flash drives, and playing them offline to get around Securly. - While this is something we are now blocking in Google Chrome (see below screenshot) - Safari does not provide the same ability to block offline games being played. Changing Default Browser to Chrome It will be important that every Student changes their default web browser to Chrome when signing in. Upon signing into a macOS Lab Computer, each Student will now see the below pop-up message, prompting them to change the default macOS web browser to Chrome: - They should click 'Use Chrome'. - Once they change to Chrome, they will no longer see this message on login. - There is also a PSD Solutions Article describing how to change the default browser. Safari Block Message When a Student goes to launch Safari, they will encounter the following block message: The short-link in the above message will take them to this PSD Solutions Article: https://psd401.freshservice.com/support/solutions/articles/6000042000 Note: If a Student has not changed their default web browser to Chrome instead of Safari, and they go to sign in through the Adobe Creative Cloud application, macOS will try to use Safari to complete the sign-in process. This will cause the Student to see the above block message. The solution is to have them change the default browser using the Solutions Article, and then try to sign-in with the Creative Cloud app again. It would also be good advice to begin advising Students to click the 'Use Chrome' pop-up when signing-in. Which will prevent the above from happening in the first place.