Five Things K-12 Administrators Need to Know About Blocking and Managing AI
Your district sets the rules for student AI use, grade by grade.
AI now shows up at the top of search results, inside browsers and in the learning apps students open every day. Even in districts that block AI sites, a student can reach a chatbot through a regular Google search, and the guardrails on that conversation are set by the company that built the tool. This guide walks through five steps your team can take today to enforce your own AI policy and see how students are using AI, whether you block it for everyone or allow it for certain grades.
What we saw across 1,400+
districts using Securly AI Transparency
student conversations with AI chatbots on school-issued devices
crossed a district guardrail and were deflected
of deflections were students asking AI to do the assignment
flagged as a possible safety concern by Securly Aware
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"From day one, our superintendent was very clear: if we’re gonna move forward with artificial intelligence in our schools, we’re doing it with safety as the number one priority."
Erick BuenrostroDigital Resource & Content Specialist, Ysleta ISD, Texas
What’s inside the guide
The guide shows you how to set the topics AI can discuss with students, hide AI Mode and AI Overviews in search results, keep AI from completing assignments, review every prompt and response, and give teachers and parents a view of student AI activity. It also lists the AI tools Securly covers today and the AI features that sit outside any web filter, with where to turn each one off.
If your district uses Securly Filter, AI Transparency is already included. The guide shows how to turn on each setting.