How to Handle YouTube at School and at Home
- The Deledao Team
- Jul 21, 2020
- 4 min read
Updated: Jul 10
YouTube can feel like the kryptonite to your Superman. As former IT admins and teachers with over 22+ years in K12, we know the struggle of how youtube houses the best and the worst of the internet. Even worse, traditional web filters struggle to parse distracting content from the educational.
But youtube doesn’t have to feel this way.
In this article, we'll show a new way IT admins and teachers are handling youtube. The best part? It's one students can't bypass!
First, What's the Problem?
As the K12 IT superhero, you are who a lot of people depend on to make YouTube work on and off campus. Yet the web filter you're using is not accomodating for everyone's needs.
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.
But with an real-time AI filter like Deledao ActiveScan, it's finally possible. It gives you a comprehensive solution to the YouTube problem.
How ActiveScan Helps School Admins (with 3 Real Examples)
The fundamental YouTube problem is how to effectively filter all the content. But with AI-powered web filters like ActiveScan, this problem finally disappears. Here's what it looks like in real world situations.
We have 500 hours of video uploaded every single minute to YouTube.
Example 1: Fortnite
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 2: A search for "kissing" that led to adult content
Yes, this is a real case. Not only does this event 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 3: Ocean vs Swimsuit
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 2025
Where Does Deledao's "Real-Time AI Filter" Work?
When we say that Deledao ActiveScan will work anywhere, we mean anywhere, and any time, to keep your students safe.
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!)
Turn off comments and suggestions
And to ensure your peace of mind, Deledao ActiveScan gives you the option to disable Youtube comments and sidebar suggestions.
How ActiveScan Helps Teachers and Students
Teachers are superheroes too! Lend them your power of approving websites to streamline the teaching process.
Teachers can approve YouTube videos for their students
Students can easily send unblock requests
To keep learning on the open web as accessible as possible, your students can send unblock requests directly to teachers for approval.
For Parents
Deledao ActiveScan has a parent portal so parents can easily see if their children are watching Fortnite or Khan Academy videos.
Parent portal dashboard
You won't have to manually create or send reports for individual parents anymore, especially in the era of distance learning.
Parents can also set their own "at home" policies for school devices operating outside of school hours.
Conclusion: Successfully handling Youtube with Deledao ActiveScan
With the help of Deledao ActiveScan, school IT admin like yourself can finally say:
As a response to the school closures, we want to help with #distancelearning. You can get free access to Deledao ActiveScan for the rest of the school year.
UPDATE June 27th, 2025: This promotion has ended
