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Smoothwall’s SWURL - Personal control of URL safelists for teachers

- Friday, January 06, 2012Smoothwall

Every teacher we know hates asking for ‘permission’ from their IT support teams to unblock web pages that fall into the categorisation grey areas - especially as they are responsible and accountable for making the best decisions about what is and isn’t suitable for their students everyday.

Conversely,  we know that getting constant requests to unblock web pages gets pretty wearing for the IT guys - who themselves are running complex networks and under daily pressure to reduce costs and improve service levels.

Smoothwall’s deceptively simple SWURL web service allows network managers to devolve the daily management of personal block and allow lists to those most capable of deciding what is appropriate web content in the classroom - the teacher.  The teacher is still filtered, monitored and controlled under the school’s/LA’s hierarchical policies but has the freedom to use the resources that they need without involving highly pressed non-teaching staff.

SWURL is an easy to implement solution that saves time, resources and not a little frustration.