Student Email Safeguards
In addition to GoogleApps security filters, the Meriden Public School District is also implementing Gaggle Apps. Gaggle's control and filtering system provides an additional layer of security to protect students from sending and receiving inappropriate email.
Filtering Features Include:
Offensive Text
Each school can customize a set of blocked words and phrases. Any email sent with questionable text will be re-routed to an educators account to review before it is delivered.
Pornographic Images
Google's Anti-Pornography Scanner (APS) automatically detects and blocks pornographic images which are embedded in the emails or sent as attachments. The scanner is exceptionally accurate and in most cases it can detect the difference between pictures of students in bathing suits and pornographic images.
Pornographic Web Sites
Google's APS has been expanded beyond images to monitoring URLs. All web links inside of emails are checked in real time to insure that the web sites do not contain pornographic content.
Attachment Content Filtering
Common document types are now decoded and scanned for offensive text, images and URLS before they are delivered. Supported document types include PDF, MS Word, MS Excel, Powerpoint, RTF, TXT and HTML
Attachment Type Filtering
Your accounts can be configured to block email with specific types of attachments such as EXE, SCR, MP3, ZIP files etc. These attachments can be stripped out of the email or rerouted to an administrator for review.
