Blocksi Parent Portal Instructions PDF
Blocksi Parent Portal Instructions PDF
Blocksi Parent Portal Instructions PDF
chromebooks in the classroom to keep students safe and enhance the learning
environment. Blocksi also has a Parent Portal that helps parents have control and
information about student use of school Chromebooks while at home.
Enter your information to create a parent account. This includes your own email account and
your student’s @alpinesd.org account. If possible, you should use the same personal email that
the school has in your student record to communicate with you. This will allow the system and
school to match you as a parent to your student.
Once logged in you will see the dashboard view. If your email matches the main contact listed
for your student in Skyward, then you should be granted access. If the system does not
recognize your email, you will see your student’s email listed with a red ”Waiting for Validation”
status. At this point, you will need to wait for the school Blocksi team to validate that you are the
appropriate parent for the student account listed. If you have multiple students, you may add
additional student @alpinesd.org accounts on this page.
Once it has been validated, you will now see the status as a green “Validated” and you will be
able to use the tool.
Blocksi Parent Functions
Please note - These functions will work when a school device is outside of the school network.
Parents will not be able to control devices when they are at school.
1. Pause the internet - On the main dashboard page, you may click the switch to
pause the internet for particular users. While this switch is flipped, the device will not
work.
2. Create Block List - You may create a list of sites that you would like to block from
use. These are in addition to sites blocked by the Alpine Content filter. All sites blocked
at school will automatically be blocked on school Chromebooks at home. The Allow
function is not supported in our district as we are not able to allow sites through Blocksi
that are otherwise blocked by our filter.
● Use the Block/Allow menu item from the left menu and enter a name and create
a new list. Then hit the pencil icon to edit the list
● On the edit page, you may add sites you would like to block on the list. For
example, we allow a restricted set of videos from YouTube. If you wanted to
block all of YouTube, you could block that here.
● You will need to return to the main dashboard page to apply that Block list for
your student.
3. Access Time Control - Create a Bedtime
● Use the Access Time Control menu item from the left menu and enter a name
and create a new ATC. Then hit the pencil icon to edit the ATC.
● Highlight the boxes in red that correspond to hours where you wish the
Chromebook to be unavailable. You may drag over several boxes or click them
one at a time.
● You will notice other grayed out menu items at the top of the display for
“Facebook, YouTube, Streaming, Gaming, Social Media.” Because those are all
either partially or completely blocked by the district content filter, they are not
available to control for parents in Alpine.
● You will need to return to the main dashboard page to apply the ATC for your
student.
4. Insights- This tab allows you as a parent to see information about your student’s web
use.
● The Web Analytics tab will show popular websites visited and search engine
queries that your student may have attempted. Note that if you have multiple
students you need to switch students in the lower right corner, but it will show
your displayed student in the upper left corner.
● If you click on the Web Analytics in the upper left corner, a pop down menu will
allow you to choose YouTube, Logs, or a download feature. On The YouTube
Video Analytics, you will see Videos accessed. **Please be aware that this
screen does not work completely** Any attempted YouTube video will show up in
the allowed video portion. This includes videos that we have restricted in Alpine.
No videos will ever show in Blocked videos because we are using other systems
rather than Blocksi to control YouTube content.