Use cases: schools
Set the rules once for the whole campus. Koru Shield filters every school device, blocks distractions during class hours, and supports your CIPA compliance plan, without needing an IT department to run it.
The situation: E-rate funding requires you to filter obscene content and protect students from harmful material online, but enterprise web filters quote thousands per year.
What you do: turn on the adult-content, malware, and proxy-bypass categories on your school profile. That DNS-level filtering becomes part of your CIPA technology plan, at a fraction of what legacy filters cost.
The situation: phones and Chromebooks in class mean social media and games competing with the lesson, and teachers cannot police every screen.
What you do: set a school-day schedule, for example 8am to 3pm on weekdays, that blocks social media, gaming, and streaming on school devices. Everything returns to normal after the bell, on its own.
The situation: kindergarteners and high schoolers should not share one internet policy, and the computer lab has different needs than take-home Chromebooks.
What you do: create a profile per grade level or classroom. Lock elementary down tight, give high school research-friendly rules, and adjust one profile without touching the rest.
The situation: students find free VPN and proxy sites to route around filters, sometimes within days of a new block.
What you do: block the proxy and VPN categories on student profiles so circumvention sites never load. Threat feeds pick up new ones continuously, and you can add a custom rule for anything that slips through.
The situation: a teacher needs a site for today's lesson that the filter blocked, and class starts in five minutes.
What you do: open the dashboard query log, find the blocked domain, and allow it with one click. Remove the allowance after class just as fast. No ticket, no waiting, no lesson derailed.
The situation: students bring personal phones and tablets that join the school Wi-Fi, outside whatever device management you have.
What you do: point the school router or access points at Koru Shield and every device on the network is filtered, managed or not. For school-owned devices, push the DNS setting through your MDM or follow the per-device setup guide, about a minute each.
Know the limits. DNS filtering does not read page content and cannot block every new threat the moment it appears. Koru Shield is one layer of a CIPA technology protection plan, not a compliance certification by itself. Confirm your full plan with your district's administration.