I don't like this extension. It is a great idea, to ensure the safety of students when on a computer where you can access just about anything, however it is extremely flawed.
I was trying to access an educational website that contains a FORMATIVE math assignment, which is 60% of MY GRADE, and this website has been used in my school district since before I even entered kindergarten, yet was blocked, since it was an "Anonymous proxy". It wasn't blocked three days ago when I last tried to access the website, by the way.
It is late at night now, and at the time I last attempted to access the app. I was about to have a panic attack when those creepy gnomes popped up on my screen, staring into my soul with their corporate slop art style, bug-like eyes!
My heart was pounding, I closed my Chromebook, and I felt like there was someone in my room, watching me, waiting for the perfect moment to jump out at me.
I am being dead serious when I say it took me ten minutes to settle down. I had to actually picture that those gnomes were gnomes from a show I watch instead, say a prayer, and turn on the lights to calm down.
I knew it was the right thing to email my math teacher and make her aware of this, but she doesn't respond right away to emails and might put a zero in Powerschool for that assignment without knowing the issues I have had trying to access it.
I just can't wait to be grounded even more than I already am since I will now have yet another zero for an assignment I didn't do, but said I did. This time it isn't completely my fault! Thank you, Securly, for everything you do to make school as miserable as possible!
My overall critiques for this are to ensure that all things are blocked for a good reason, for example, games that are distracting, websites that are inappropriate, and social media, instead of blocking things for no reason, and please change the blocked screen. It is less creepy than that menacing stop sign it used to be, I will say that. Please just make it less of a jumpscare every time I unknowingly stumble upon a blocked website if you really must keep the gnomes. I don't like feeling like I am playing a horror game when I am on my school Chromebook.
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