FocusRoom Student Monitor

Student monitoring extension for FocusRoom classroom management

FocusRoom - Educational Website Monitoring for Students An educational tool that helps teachers create virtual study rooms with controlled website access during online learning sessions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ OVERVIEW FocusRoom enables educators to create monitoring rooms with customizable website whitelists. Students join rooms using teacher-provided codes, and the extension restricts browsing to pre-approved educational websites during active sessions. Use Cases: - Online classroom instruction - Computer lab sessions - Study periods - Remote learning environments - Homework monitoring ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEY FEATURES - Room-based system with unique join codes - Customizable website whitelists per room - Real-time violation alerts for teachers - Session reports with participation data - No student account creation required - Privacy-focused: monitoring only during active sessions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW IT WORKS For Teachers: 1. Create a free account at https://focusroom.pro 2. Set up a room and configure allowed websites 3. Share the room code with students 4. Monitor activity through the web dashboard 5. Review session reports after class For Students: 1. Install this extension 2. Enter the teacher's room code 3. Already-open tabs are automatically checked against the whitelist 4. Access whitelisted websites during the session 5. Blocked tabs are restored when you leave the room ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY PROTECTION The extension monitors only during active, teacher-initiated sessions when students voluntarily join a room. What is monitored: - Website URLs of open tabs when joining a room (to apply whitelist) - Website access attempts during sessions - Session join and leave times - Student names as entered when joining What is NOT monitored: - Browsing activity outside of sessions - Screen content or keystrokes - Passwords or credentials - Permanent browsing history All monitoring stops when a student leaves a room or the session ends. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IMPORTANT INFORMATION This extension operates on an honor system with monitoring. Students can bypass restrictions by using different browsers, disabling the extension, or using other devices. Teachers receive notifications of such attempts. When students join a room, the extension automatically checks which tabs are already open and blocks access to sites not on the whitelist. When students leave a room, any blocked tabs are restored to their original pages for seamless transitions. FocusRoom is designed for cooperative educational settings where students are willing participants. It is a focus assistance tool, not a security system. High-stakes testing environments should use specialized proctoring software with device-level controls. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TARGET USERS Educators including: - K-12 teachers - University instructors - Tutoring centers - Homeschool educators - Study group coordinators ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS - Google Chrome (desktop version) - Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chromebook - Internet connection for session synchronization ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRICING Free for all users. No credit card required. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REQUIRED PERMISSIONS - All websites access: Monitor and enforce whitelist restrictions during sessions - Tabs: Detect navigation to verify against whitelists - Storage: Maintain room configuration and session state - Web navigation: Block access to non-whitelisted websites - Alarms: Periodic synchronization of whitelist updates These permissions are used exclusively during active monitoring sessions. See our Privacy Policy at https://focusroom.pro/privacy for details. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GETTING STARTED Visit https://focusroom.pro to sign up for a teacher account and set up your first room. Students can then install this extension and join using your room code. Setup time: Approximately 5 minutes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: Do students need accounts? A: No. Students only install the extension and enter a room code. Q: Does this work on school computers? A: Yes. Compatible with school-managed devices and Chromebooks. Q: What happens if internet disconnects? A: The extension continues blocking locally. Violations are reported when connection resumes. Q: Can students see allowed websites? A: Yes. The whitelist is visible in the extension popup. Q: How quickly do whitelist changes take effect? A: Changes synchronize within 60 seconds. Q: Is this FERPA/COPPA compliant? A: Educational institutions are responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable laws. We recommend consulting with your school's legal counsel. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUPPORT Website: https://focusroom.pro Email: quocanh261997@gmail.com Response time: 3-5 business days ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LEGAL By using FocusRoom, you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy available at https://focusroom.pro/terms and https://focusroom.pro/privacy. Important notices: - Service provided as-is with best-effort support - Teachers must obtain proper authorization from their institution - Teachers are responsible for ensuring compliance with privacy laws - Does not guarantee 100% prevention of bypassing - Not recommended as sole tool for high-stakes testing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Version: 1.0.0 Developer: FocusRoom Website: https://focusroom.pro © 2025 FocusRoom. All rights reserved.