A safe online environment. And the evidence to show it.
DNS Angel protects your students from harmful content and cyber threats, lets teachers open what lessons need within limits you set, and keeps a record of every allow. So when a parent, regulator or your board asks how your online environment is kept safe, you can show them.
Support for your online safety responsibilities
Child safe standards ask schools to keep online environments safe, and to be able to show how. DNS Angel doesn't make a school compliant on its own, but it helps you show your working.
Victoria's Standard 9 (whose guidance gives filtering on school devices as an example action), NSW's Standard 8 and Queensland's Standard 8 all deal with online environments, building on National Principle 8.
- What's blocked: the Always blocked categories and your Never allow list, in writing.
- Who can allow what: teachers, only for their rooms and classes, only inside your limits.
- For how long: 30, 45 or 60 minutes, then it ends by itself.
- What actually happened: every allow, who started it and how it ended.
Every allow, on one page
Who allowed which site, for which room or class, for how long, and how it ended. Export it whenever you need to.
| Time | Teacher | Site | Where | Allowed for | How it ended |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:15 | Mr Patel | chatgpt.com | 9C Science | 45 min | Ended by Stop all access at 2:40 |
| 1:30 | Ms Kelly | canva.com | Library | 30 min | Ended early at 1:52 |
| 11:52 | Mr Patel | blooket.com | 9C Science | 30 min | Ended on time at 12:22 |
| 11:00 | Ms Nguyen | youtube.com | Lab 12 | 45 min | Ended on time at 11:45 |
Limits that hold for every teacher, every time
Always blocked
Adult content, gambling, malware, phishing, self-harm and similar. No school and no teacher can allow these.
Never allow
Your school's own list. Checked when a teacher saves a lesson set and again when they allow it.
Teacher limits
Which sites teachers may allow, and the longest time for each.
Stop all access
One switch ends all access and blocks new access until a school administrator lifts the stop.
Six questions to ask any web filter vendor
Use them with us, and with anyone else you're talking to.
When a teacher opens a site, does it close again by itself?
If access depends on someone remembering to undo it, it usually stays open.
Can you show me a record of every site a teacher opened, and when it closed?
After a complaint or an incident, that record is what you'll be asked for. A usage chart won't answer it.
What can a teacher never open, whatever they do?
Ask to see the list itself.
How long does a change take to reach a computer, and how did you measure it?
"Instant" is easy to say. Ask for the number and the method.
Where is our school's data hosted, and who can see it?
Ask for the country, the roles that can see it, and how access is audited and logged.
Who sets it up, and who answers when something goes wrong?
Ask who you'll actually talk to, and when.
Questions leaders ask
Something else? Ask us directly.
Does DNS Angel make our school compliant with child safe standards?
No product can do that on its own. DNS Angel helps you show how online access is controlled at your school: what's always blocked, what teachers can allow and for how long, and a record of every allow and how it ended.
Who decides what teachers can allow?
Your school does, with IronSights. Always blocked covers adult content, gambling, malware, phishing, self-harm and similar for every school. Your Never allow list and Teacher limits sit on top, and only your school administrators and IronSights can change them.
Can we see what a particular teacher has allowed?
Yes. Anyone with a school administrator account can see Activity: every allow with the teacher's name, the site, the room or class, how long it was allowed for and how it ended. It exports as a spreadsheet for anyone else who needs it.
Can teachers use AI tools in some lessons and not others?
Yes, if your school wants that. Your school decides which AI sites teachers may allow, using Never allow and Teacher limits. Teachers can then allow one of those sites for a lesson, and every allow is on the record.
How is DNS Angel priced?
DNS Angel is priced per computer. We'll take you through it after the demo, once we understand your school.
See how it would work at your school.
A walkthrough with the IronSights team: how teachers allow a site, what your IT team controls, what leaders can see, and how we set it up for you.