Gaggle is dedicated to providing safe e-mail accounts for students. The tools provided allow schools to feel secure when giving their students e-mail access. Student accounts are typically set to allow students to send and receive email for educational purposes.
On the Gaggle Network, email messages are filtered for inappropriate text and words. Messages with inappropriate words are automatically re-routed to the teacher's account and are blocked from being sent to the recipient.
What tools are available for me to use?
Tools in Gaggle are filtered either electronically and or by Gaggle staff. Inappropriate content will generate blocked messages and or messages from the Gaggle staff to the student.
Email—controlled to be within the school, controlled addresses for ingoing or outgoing messages
Digital Lockers—a great solution for getting digital work between computers both at school and home
Chat Room—discussion rooms where students have synchronous conversations about topics the teacher has posted. Great for group project or classroom reviews
Messages Board—a place for posted questions to be commented upon or answered. Students can go in at any time and respond. This can be done without other student interaction.
Blogs—Gaggle Blogs are a way that students and educators can interface within the school. Gaggle Blogs are filtered for inappropriate words and phrases. All images are scanned for content and all URL links are checked for pornographic content. If any rules are violated, the offending blog entry will be blocked and sent to the author’s administrator email address pending approval.
Calendar—students can use the calendar to manage classroom events and due dates. Teachers can also send calendar items to their students.
Collaborative documents—Zoho documents within the Gaggle system can be set for multiple students to work collaborative on documents which include spreadsheets, word processing, and a presentation tool. In addition, students can use these documents at home. They will open at school with our standard Office software (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
