Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. ^ "Inc.com Lightspeed Systems Profile".In 2012, Lightspeed Systems raised questionable behavior when directly mass emailing customers accounts to poach from partner accounts. This brought up many concerns and scrutiny.
In 2012, Darryl LaGacé, head of IT in San Diego Unified School District, left to go work for Lightspeed Systems after previously procuring a $375,000 contract with them earlier that year. There have also been privacy concerns brought up by many students. Lightspeed Systems has been criticized by students for the amount of content blocked by the system. In 2021 Lightspeed announced Alert, a product the company says uses AI and human review to identify threats of school violence or student self-harm. In March 2019, Lightspeed Systems released Analytics for reporting on apps, applications, and web sites used on school owned devices.
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In April 2018, Lightspeed released Classroom, classroom management software which the company claims can monitor and control content loaded on devices used by students during class.
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However in 2018 support for Mac OS, iOS, and Windows was announced. It originally was only supported on Chromebooks. Lightspeed Systems advertises their Filter product as blocking "inappropriate" content, and a tool for CIPA compliance. In 2017, Lightspeed announced the Relay Filter, which was then renamed to just Lightspeed Filter.
Mobile device management helps school IT staff to manage school devices more easily through the use of policies. In 2013, Lightspeed introduced mobile device management. In January 2022, they acquired CatchOn, a real-time data analytics provider that helps with student engagement, and in March, Lightspeed received another investment from Genstar Capital. In 2019, Lightspeed Systems received an investment from Madison Dearborn Partners. However, Inc.com did not list the company as part of the Inc 5000 after 2012. In 2012, Inc.com ranked the company #1855 out of the Inc 5000. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas with an office in Brentwood, Essex (United Kingdom). Lightspeed Systems is an educational software company based in Austin, Texas that builds and sells SaaS content-control software, mobile device management, alert software, and classroom management software to K–12 schools.įounded in 1999 in Bakersfield, California, Lightspeed Systems, Inc., develops content filtering, mobile device management, and device monitoring software targeted to the education market. Lightspeed Filter, Lightspeed Alert, Lightspeed Classroom Management, Lightspeed Analytics, Lightspeed Mobile Device Management American internet filtering and edtech company Lightspeed Systems
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