Classroom Manager Rules let you apply exceptions to your school's internet filtering policies by allowing or blocking content for students in your class. You can apply rules to your entire class a group of students, or a single student, and turn them off at any time.
Note
If your school turns on Block Only mode, you won't be able to make Allow rules. Rules show as On or Off instead.
School Policies vs Classroom Manager Rules
Your school can lock Policies in Linewize Filter. Classroom Manager Rules won't be able to override Locked Policies and will warn you if you try to add conflicting rules.
If you think the content you want to block or allow is Locked, contact your school's IT Support team.
Types of content you can filter
You can use Classroom Manager Rules to filter websites and online apps, groups of websites, and even some desktop applications on Windows devices. You can filter using Themes, Categories and Signatures to help you customize your rules.
Class-specific rules and rule lists
A class can have two kinds of rules:
Class-specific rules: Rules you create for one class. Use these for quick changes during a session, or for rules that apply to a single student.
Rule lists: Named sets of rules saved in your Rules Library. You can apply a list to any of your classes, so you don't need to recreate the same rules at the start of each term. A change to a list applies to every class where the list is active.
Class-specific rules apply before rules from a list. For more, see Rules Library overview.
Rules panel overview
To open the Rules panel, Select Rules on the class toolbar, The panel has two tabs.
Active Rules tab
The Active Rules tab shows every rule working in your class:
Class-specific rules: Shows the website, app, or category it controls, and who it applies to. Select Block or Allow to change it, or use Add to a list (folder icon), Edit (pencil icon), or Delete (trash icon).
Rule lists: Rule lists that have been applied to the class from your Rules Library. Each list shows how many rules it has and who owns it. Select the arrow next to a list to see its rules. Select Remove to stop using the list in the class.
Rule count: Shows how many rules the class has, out of a maximum of 200.
Use Create Rule to add a class-specific rule, or Delete All to remove all active rules from the class.
Rules Library tab
The Rules Library tab shows the lists in your Rules Library and suggested categories to block. Select Apply List to apply a list to the class, or New List to create one.