New Zealand Schools face unprecedented challenges in ensuring the safety of students online, with significant increases in cyberbullying, online harassment, and exposure to harmful content as a result of increased screen time.*
This makes digital safeguarding more crucial than ever.
*New Zealand ranks 3rd globally for cyberbullying among young people, and 40% struggle with loneliness. Netsafe Report 2023.
Digital safeguarding involves taking proactive steps to prevent online harm and abuse. Just as with traditional safeguarding, the goal is to prevent issues before they escalate. Early detection and intervention are more effective than responding after an incident occurs.
Watch Yasmin London, our Global Cyber Safety Expert explain how Digital Safeguarding works.

While filtering tools play a key role in online safety, they are no longer sufficient on their own. Schools need to proactively detect and intervene in students' online behaviours to truly safeguard them. Digital visibility - understanding students' online interactions - is crucial for identifying and addressing risks before they escalate. This visibility helps schools move from reactive to proactive safeguarding practices, ultimately improving student outcomes and digital wellbeing.
Traditionally, schools have relied on ‘stopping and blocking’ to shield students from online harm. While blocking remains important, it only addresses part of the problem. The real challenge lies in understanding what students encounter in the digital spaces they can access.
Without advanced technology, gaining visibility into a student's online activities and interactions is nearly impossible.
With digital visibility schools can:
Gain insights into students' online behaviours (what they do, say, share, and with whom), which is key to effective safeguarding.
Identify and address risks by spotting potential issues and being able to intervene early, reducing the risk of missing students in need.
Shift from reactive responses to proactive safeguarding practices.
Make informed decisions and tailor digital safeguarding strategies based on actionable insights.
To identify immediate risks and enhance visibility, schools can lean on a range of tools and systems designed to protect individuals, particularly students, from online threats and risks. Linewize provides advanced digital safeguarding solutions designed to monitor, detect, and address potential threats in real time.
Our comprehensive suite of tools supports
teachers from all sides.
Linewize Monitor leverages keystroke technology, AI and human moderation to provide critical insights into students' online activities beyond the web browser. Continuous monitoring detects potential risks and generates instant alerts for concerning behaviour, helping to identify vulnerable students and engage relevant stakeholders promptly.


Unlike traditional, anonymous annual surveys, Pulse offers frequent, quick check-ins that only take a minute or two to complete. By asking students weekly about their feelings and gathering responses to five key sentiment and engagement questions, Pulse provides timely and actionable insights. This continuous feedback helps schools better understand student experiences, identify emerging concerns, and support digital safeguarding efforts more effectively.
Linewize School Manager offers granular control, allowing schools to target interventions at an individual student level. It delivers comprehensive visibility into students' digital interactions and issues real-time red flags for attempts to access inappropriate or harmful content. Coming soon - School Manager will go a step further with AI-driven real-time image blurring.


Linewize Classwize enhances digital safeguarding by providing teachers with the ability to review historical data through its rewindability feature. This capability allows educators to access screenshot views for up to two weeks, enabling them to track and verify student behaviour over time, identify potential risks, and address issues proactively. By offering these insights, Classwize supports a safer digital learning environment and helps ensure timely intervention in safeguarding students.

James Wheaton
Principal, Upper Harbour Primary.
James discusses how the use of Linewize Monitor at the school has given all-important visibility into what students are doing online coupled with the ability to identify those who may need help or support.
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