User activity logged by Securly Filter is available to view in your Securly account. The Activities page displays all blocked and accessed sites, searches, videos, etc. to help admins understand how students are utilizing their devices and time online, identify time sinks, understand search patterns, etc. Reports are also available to delegated admins for their specific OUs and help them keep track of their activity at all times.
Clicking at the dropdown arrow will let you customize the report table based on either the allowed or blocked activities.
You can filter the results by category, policy, source type, location, and date to get as granular a view of the reports as required. Selecting multiple categories can save time, as you can create a single report with multiple categories you want to monitor rather than needing to create multiple reports to monitor multiple categories.
Clicking on the three-dot icon beside any accessed activity will reveal the "Block Activity" option. You can click on this to block the site if necessary. Similar to how you block sites, you can also allow any blocked sites here by clicking the ‘allow’ button from the three-dot menu on a blocked activity. The ‘allow’ button will not be displayed for ‘Default policy’ users. This differs from the blocked/allowed dropdown at the top of the page, which determines which results are displayed.
A website will only be allowed/blocked for the policy for which you have set the filter. If you have applied the 'All Policies' filter and blocked/allowed a site, it will be added to the Global Allow/Deny list.
You can filter activity based on a source type by using the 'All source types' drop-down filter.
- The "Sites" filter will list all the websites visited.
- The "Videos" filter will list all YouTube videos that the user searched for and watched.
- The "Search" filter lists the keywords that the student searched for.
- The "Social Posts" filter lists activity from social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
YouTube videos and Social Media activity are not displayed under the blocked activity log. If a video is blocked, it will not be displayed to the user based on the YouTube settings, while a safe search on YouTube will further display only safe results. So, no blocked videos will get reported.
Viewing activity details
For details about each entry, you can click on the three-dot menu next to each activity and click on "Show More Info." to the display category under which it was blocked and the public IP address that attempted to access it.
Customising the activity report table
You can select the columns you want to display on the Activities page by clicking the settings icon and selecting from the list.
You can also download, email, and schedule reports to be received periodically by using the action buttons on the top right corner above the activity report table.
