Lightspeed Alert™

Identify students in crisis for
proactive intervention 

SMS Notifications for Lightspeed Alert™ Available Now

If your school safety strategy rests on lights and door locks,
you're too late. Get proactive with Lightspeed Alert.

Alert can help.

For Administrators

With Alert, Administrative teams get the real-time visibility they need to spot, and stop, potential policy violations and risks.

Ensure policy are enforced, compliance is met, and your university is protected.

For Student Affairs

With Alert, student affairs and counseling teams get the insights they need to identify students in crisis.

Spot concerning behaviors and intervene before situations escalate.

For Safety Officers

With Alert, safety teams get real-time notifications to threats putting campus safety at risk.

See online threats to investigate early and prevent offline tragedies.

With Alert, detect and escalate warning signs in three steps

AI Content Scan

Documents, images, and applications are scanned by AI for concerning behavior, alerting designated staff and Lightspeed Safety Specialists.

Threat Assessment

24/7/365 in house team of highly trained Safety Specialists evaluate all alerts to identify high and imminent risk.

Escalation Response

Safety Specialists escalate critical alerts to a custom escalation list, including law enforcement, allowing for early intervention.

Safe AI Made Safer
Alert + Google Gemini

Allow students to use Google Gemini accounts with the added layer of protection and visibility Alert offers.

Uncover the unseen with superior visibility ​

Lightspeed Alert uses Google/Microsoft integrations to identify potential threats.

Extend staff resources

The Lightspeed Human Review team works seamlessly with AI to provide 24/7/365 safety alert monitoring and escalation. Our safety specialists have experience and backgrounds in education, law enforcement, and investigation, with additional training in threat assessment and suicide prevention.

Empower safety teams to quickly respond

Create escalation lists to ensure the appropriate team members are notified and ready to act when high and imminent threats are taking place. Get relevant details (screenshots, browser history, and case notes) to see the full incident context.

Responsible & Ethical AI by Design

  • Artificial Intelligence and machine learning allow rapid, accurate risk assessment and notification
  • AI removes human bias while diverse governance and review teams eliminate AI bias
  • Automated alerts are sent only when a risk is identified, only to district-designated personnel, and only with the minimum information necessary to quickly mitigate that risk
  • All of our practices, including use of AI, comply with all applicable laws and adhere to our strict data privacy and security practices including compliance with FERPA, CCPA, GDPR, COPPA and social media platform agreements

Lightspeed Alert™

Proactively protect students with advanced safety monitoring

Comprehensive Protection

Get critical alerts across email, school issued devices & accounts, and computer labs.

In-House Human Review

Lightspeed Alert includes an in-house team of trained reviewers 24/7/365, while competitors outsource their human review team to contractors without further training.

Integration with Microsoft

Partnered with Microsoft Education, Lightspeed Alert is able to integrate seamlessly with the Microsoft suite, including Microsoft® Teams.

Customization

Define your security level by category and set alerts and notifications based on your needs.

Flexible Policy Management

Quickly locate and manage group policies with quick search functionality, sophisticated breadcrumb navigation, and granular group filtering with Lightspeed SmartPolicy™ technology.

Fast Roster Syncing

Simultaneously sync any combination of student information systems (SIS) and directory services to one centralized place with Lightspeed SmartSync™ technology.

Email Quarantine

Stop email-based safety and security violations before they spread by quarantining and reviewing high-risk emails.

Multi-Language Support

Monitor activity in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Haitian-Creole.

Winner in Tech & Learning's Awards of Excellence

Lightspeed Alert™ was one of three Lightspeed products to win Best of Show at the 2022 International Society for Technology (ISTE) edtech conference. Tech and Learning recently recognized Lightspeed Alert and Lightspeed Filter with the Award of Excellence in the Best of 2021 Primary Education and Secondary Education categories.