Coomera Anglican College| Family Zone

A message from Coomera Anglican College

Coomera Anglican College is proud to partner with Family Zone commencing 2019.

The College will be one of the first schools to take a whole of College approach making Family Zone available to our families from Preparatory to Year 12. Family Zone will be available to all our families as part of your College fees.

Family Zone is a complete online cyber safety solution that protects your children at College, at home and when they are out and about.

It is available on College supplied devices, as part of our eMind programme, but will also allow families to provide protection on other devices at home.

You have received your activation email from Family Zone - Parents need to simply follow the prompts in the email

Don't think you received an Activation Email? Email Family Zone support & they will help you activate - support@familyzone.com

For more information please see the COSTS &/or GUIDELINES on this website

You can log in to your Family Zone account via "My account" (top right hand corner of this website)

What do you need to do?

Wait for the activation email from Family Zone, then activate your account.

Install Family Zone on the devices that you wish to protect. Your school has already installed Family Zone on your school device.

Manage via our Family Zone app. Download to your own Apple or Android device.

Benefits for parents

Safe content

Removes adult content for safe searching

Family Zone takes student and parent privacy seriously. Learn more here.

Costs

Guidelines

Resources

Managing Screen Time - School Holidays Webinar

Our children's technology use almost doubles during school holidays! Watch this recording to learn how Family Zone can help you manage your children's screen time.

Advanced with Family Zone Webinar

Already across the basics?? Watch the Advanced webinar here to learn how Family Zone can make managing your child's online life even easier

Coomera - Getting Started With Family Zone Webinar

Join Jess from Family Zone & learn how to use Family Zone at home

Visit our YouTube channel for 'How to' videos on how to use Family Zone

How to install Family Zone

Click the icon for your child’s device operating system for instructions.

Chromebook

To install Family Zone on a Chromebook, you need:

An active Family Zone account
Your child’s Chromebook

Repeat the steps below for each and every Google account your child uses on their Chromebook.

Watch this video on installing Family Zone.

Installation Guide:
1. Browse to www.familyzone.com/laptops
2. Scroll down and select Download for Chromebook
1. This will open Google Chrome Web Store. Select Add to Chrome.
2. Select Add extension.
3. Enable Mobile Zone (Education Edition) extension in incognito mode.
  This is important because by default, Google Chrome disables extensions in Incognito mode. Your child may exploit this to bypass filtering.
  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Browse to chrome://extensions into your Chrome browser
  3. On the Mobile Zone (Education Edition) extension and select Details
  4. Enable Allow in Incognito
4. Click on the recently added Mobile Zone extension.
5. Sign in with your Family Zone email address and password.
6. Update the device name, select the device owner and click sign in.
7. Mobile Zone for Chromebook (Education Edition) is now protecting your device

Family Zone is now protecting your child’s Chromebook.

*Your school may have already installed the Family Zone extension to your child’s Google account. Look for the above extension icon in your child’s Chrome browser when signed into their school-issued Google account.

Important
Family Zone for Chrome works best when children are not the admin on the device. Read our advice here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do I go for help?
You can: watch our install video, read our solutions or contact support@familyzone.com.

How do I sign into my child’s device?
You may need to ask your child to sign into their device so you can install Family Zone.

My child’s device is asking for a password when I’m installing the software, what do I do?
You will need to get the password off your child to continue the install.

My children share a Chromebook and each child has his/her own Google account to sign in. Will they all be protected?
You need to install the Family Zone Chrome extension for each Google account you want to protect on that Chromebook. Read our advice here.

Am I able to change the controls?
Yes! Access your Family Zone account at portal.familyzone.com and log in with your Family Zone account details. Alternatively, download our Family Zone app onto your own device to manage Family Zone settings on the go.

Your school's chosen Cyber Expert is

We've teamed up with Cyber Experts

A team of leading educators, psychologists and law-enforcement professionals specialising in online safety and education, Cyber Experts work collaboratively with Family Zone to provide world-leading research, advice and support to our School Community subscribers.

Brett Lee, Internet Safe Education Founder and National Cyber Safety Expert

'Parents have a right to know where their children go and who they communicate with. Parents whose family have been devastated by online issues who now use monitoring or filtering software would do anything to turn back time . They have told me so. Family Zone is an essential piece of the cyber safety formula.’