Filtering

Filtering of inappropriate sites in Education Queensland schools is carried out by the Secure Computing Smart Filter Bess Edition software. The filtering is based on staff and student Global Filter Lists and Student Filters Lists created and managed at a school level. The Global Filters Lists for both staff and students are maintained by the MIS Filtering Officers. Each school controls their own School Filters List through the MIS Admin portal. On all filter lists sites and categories can be requested to be blocked or allowed (exception).

Filtering through the MIS

Filtering is currently based on a selection of Smart Filter Bess Edition categories. For students these are: Anonymizers, anonymizing utilities, criminal skills, dating/social, drugs, extreme, gambling, gambling related, game/cartoon violence, gruesome content, hacking, hate speech, instant messaging, malicious sites, messaging, nudity, p2p/file sharing, personal network storage, personal pages, phishing, pornography, profanity, provocative attire, remote access, school cheating information, sexual materials, shareware/freeware, spam email URLs, spyware, violence, weapons, web ads, and web phone. Exceptions are allowed for Business, History, Education, Medical and For Kids.

The selection of the Filtering Categories (new window) has been carefully considered to ensure that the level of filtering implemented does not dramatically reduce access.

What is Smart Filter Bess Edition?

Further information about the Smart Filter Bess Edition software for schools may be found at their website (new window).

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Filtering

Filtering through the MIS

What is Smart Filter Bess Edition?

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