How to Handle YouTube at School and at Home
Updated: May 20
YouTube can feel like the kryptonite to your Superman. It doesn’t have to be this way.
As a K-12 IT superhero, a lot of people depend on you to make YouTube work on and off campus.
School admins want:
To keep students safe and learning
To keep teachers and parents happy
Teachers want:
Students to watch the educational videos they uploaded
Students to watch the educational videos they wish they uploaded
Students want:
To watch the videos teachers want them to watch
To watch "Let's play Fortnite" videos
Parents want:
To know why their kids are watching Fortnite videos
If you use on-premise network devices (e.g. firewall) or proxy-level filters as your content filter, it's probably hard to meet those expectations.
Deledao can help you meet those expectations.
Deledao Education is a real-time AI filter that gives you a comprehensive solution to the YouTube problem.
For School Admin
The fundamental YouTube problem is how to effectively filter all the content.
We have 500 hours of video uploaded every single minute to YouTube.
-YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki on CBS 60 Minutes
Example - Fornite
There are too many variations of the word “Fortnite” that mischievous students can search in attempts to “game the system” (sorry, we had to).
F o r t n i t e
For t nite
F or tnite
Etc...
But real-time AI filtering catches this by comprehending like a human what loads on the YouTube results page. The key is to analyze every webpage in real time. What loads in the browser is what matters.
Typical filters only allow you to block by channel or category but that places your students at the mercy of YouTube content creators and YouTube’s suggestion algorithms.
YouTube’s categories are determined by content creators, which may lead to another Peppa Pig problem.
YouTube’s suggestion algorithms may even give your school 15 minutes of fame:
Example - A search for "kissing" led to mature content on school-issued devices
Not only does it bring up discussions of CIPA-compliance, but also it highlights the effects that mature content can have on younger children.
Deledao's real-time protection could've prevented this. If a YouTube video begins to load mature content, our proprietary AI technology will blur and mute the video.
Example - Ocean vs Swimsuit
You can see for yourself with our demo tool.
Many other solutions claim to do "AI filtering" when they are simply using AI to pre-categorize websites using basic website information. Deledao uses a true AI filter that analyzes what the user sees in real time.
Our AI is recognized by EdTech Digest in 2020.
Where does Deledao's "real-time AI filter" work?
At school - on campus
At home - off campus
On any video platform, not just YouTube
On embedded videos
On Chromebooks
On Windows and Macs
On iPads (yes, definitely iPads!)
....so what we mean to say is that Deledao Education will work anywhere and any time to keep your students safe.
And to ensure your peace of mind, Deledao Education gives you the option to disable comments and sidebar suggestions.
Example - No comments and suggestions
For Teachers
They're superheroes too! Lend them your power of approving websites to streamline the teaching process.
Example - Teachers can approve YouTube videos for their students
For Students
To keep learning on the open web as accessible as possible, students can send unblock requests directly to teachers for approval.
Example - Students can easily send unblock requests
For Parents
Deledao Education has a parent portal so parents can easily see if their children are watching Fortnite or Khan Academy videos.
You won't have to manually create or send reports for individual parents anymore, especially in the era of distance learning.
Example - Parent portal dashboard
Parents can also set their own "at home" policies for school devices operating outside of school hours.
With the help of Deledao Education, school IT admin like yourself can finally say this:
As a response to the school closures, we want to help with #distancelearning. You can get free access to Deledao Education for the rest of the school year.