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Is there a way of blocking the sample tracks on Amazon. We are seeing students at our school playing the 30 second clips of explicit songs. This can be a problem in a classroom!   ... View more

We have students in our academy playing the Google snake game, obviously this is really a classroom mamangement issue. But we do have students in isolation and when Cover teachers that are unfamiliar with our monitoring software. Is there a way we can block this game on Internet Explorer and Chrome ? ... View more

We are having issues with students playing  google  pacman and Atari  Breakout  on  google  images . Has anyone got any suggestions on how to block these ? ... View more

We have been trying to block the following website to stop students at our school playing Pacman  https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=webhp&source=hp&q=pacman&oq=pac&gs_l=hp.1.0.0l3j0i131k1j0l6.965.1399.0.3543.3.3.0.0.0.0.32.89.3.3.0....0...1.1.64.hp..0.3.87.NoYdh0ojI_E#clb=clb&spf=1495713448440 Obvioulsy we want them to access google but not this specific url. Any ideas ? ... View more

We set up a custom URL category proxy-search following the instruction here https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Configuration-Articles/How-to-Filter-Certain-Search-Strings-using-URL-Filtering/ta-p/52441 This worked fine but recently it has stopped working. Students can now type the search words we block on the list in Google and they can search them, when it worked they would be blocked and sent back to the original google page. Has anyone else had this problem ? Has the latest update caused this to stop working? ... View more