Screen Time Analytics
Where student device time goes, measured in time on each site and category, per student and aggregated by building and grade. Sites are categorized automatically, and your curriculum lead can re-file a site for reports without changing what is blocked.
What it does
Visit counts tell you very little. A student who opens a math platform once and stays for forty minutes has used it; a student who opens it twelve times for ten seconds has not. UserAuthGuard measures time, not clicks, and files that time by site and category so the question “what are the Chromebooks actually used for?” has an answer.
The extension reports page activity for the signed-in student. Each site is categorized by an automated categorizer into about twenty categories (education, productivity, video, games, social, communication and so on), and the time is summarized per student per day. A nightly job rolls those into one row per district, day, building and grade: how many students were online, for how long, and where the time went by site and category. That aggregate view holds no student names and is the one a curriculum director or principal uses. Per-student detail is available to the roles the district allows.
Categories are a district matter for reporting. If the shared classification files a site your teachers use under games, your curriculum lead can re-file it as education for your district’s reports, without touching what the filter blocks; that split is deliberate, so a reporting correction never opens a site. Topics a class is studying can be registered so searches about them are understood in context. Reports export to CSV and open in Google Sheets.
- ✓ Time, not visitsSeconds on each site and category, so a tab opened and abandoned does not count as use.
- ✓ By building and gradeStudents online, time online, and where it went, one row per district, day, building and grade, built nightly, with no student names.
- ✓ Per-student detail for the roles you allowA student’s day by site and category, for counselors and teachers with the right scope.
- ✓ Categories you can correctRe-file a site for your district’s reports without changing the filter. Every change is kept with who made it.
- ✓ Built for leadership rolesA curriculum role sees district totals; principals see their building. Neither sees screens.
- ✓ CSV and Google SheetsEvery view exports.
Requires
- The Enterprise Plus plan.
- The UserAuthGuard extension force-installed on student Chromebooks, with students signed in to their school account.
- Schools and grades on student records, from the roster sync or Google OUs, for the building and grade views.
Does not
- Measure attention or learning. It measures time on sites. What that time was worth is a judgment for educators.
- Categorize every site. Some traffic stays uncategorized, and the reports show how much.
- See outside Chrome. Android apps and offline time are not recorded.
- Read content. It records which sites and for how long, not what was on the page.
Where it fits
Is the platform we pay for used?
Time on the licensed math platform by building and grade, over the semester. The renewal conversation has a number in it.
Which buildings use what
A curriculum director compares where device time goes across buildings without seeing any individual student, and re-files a misfiled site so the comparison is fair.
One student, one week
A counselor with scope for the student sees their week by category and site, which is a better starting point for a conversation than a hunch.
Frequently asked questions
How are sites categorized?
By an automated categorizer that classifies the sites students actually visit into about twenty categories, running continuously as new sites appear. Your district can override a site’s category for its own reports; that override does not change what the filter blocks.
What about student privacy?
The building and grade views are aggregates with no student names. Per-student detail is limited to roles the district allows, such as a teacher for their own class or a counselor with a building grant. The data is which sites and for how long, not page content.
Can teachers see their own class?
Yes, for the students on their class lists, within the scope the district sets. Principals see their building’s totals; a curriculum role sees district totals.
How far back does the data go?
Daily summaries accumulate from the day the extension is deployed. Export to CSV or Google Sheets for anything you want to keep outside the product or compare across years.
See where the time goes
Screen Time Analytics is part of the Enterprise Plus plan, quoted per district. Book a walkthrough, or start free: the gap report lists every device with no owner and every student with no device.