Parental Controls
Align your library with your family’s values,
THEN
Personalize content for each child.
LightSail contains a suite of parental control features that give parents peace of mind and the ability to customize settings for each individual child to a level far beyond anything previously available.
ChildSafe Content Controls
Assessment Controls
Media Controls
Feature Controls
Reading Controls
Writing Controls
Chat & Social Controls
Spending Controls
ChildSafe Content Controls
Assessment Controls
Media Controls
Feature Controls
Reading Controls
Writing Controls
Chat & Social Controls
Spending Controls
Click a button below to explore our eight levels of parental control features in more detail. Come see what makes LightSail the only content platform available that you can fully customize to your family’s values and your children’s individual needs.
Parental Control Features
ChildSafe Content Controls
Fully customize each child’s library
Assessment Controls
Determine type & frequency of assessments
Media Controls
Moderate video & audiobook usage
Feature Controls
Set limitations on accessing features
Reading Controls
Optimize your child’s reading experience
Writing Controls
Automatically assign writing activities
Chat & Social Controls
Chat & Social Controls
Spending Controls
Set a book allowance & enable purchases
Let’s get serious about parental controls!
LightSail gives you the certainty of knowing that your children are only accessing safe, educational content—plus the power to customize and optimize all of the features and modules to meet each child’s unique homeschooling needs.
Content Protection Controls
All content in LightSail has been rigorously assessed to ensure that it is both educational and appropriate. We automatically filter content for each child’s reading level and age. But we haven’t stopped there! LightSail has created revolutionary Content Protection Controls . Our team reads and evaluates every book based on dozens of maturity and values factors. Then, we give parents complete control over each child’s access. Parents no longer need to read each book in advance to know what potentially objectionable material it contains.
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How many parent accounts are included with a child's license?
Every family account includes two Parent Accounts.
I am part of a homeschool group and we share teaching responsibilities. How can I access those accounts?
LightSail has created a Teacher/Coach role that can connect with multiple accounts. This is available as an add-on purchase. This account acts as additional parent with full teacher control to all connected accounts.
Is your platform only Faith-Based?
LightSail is available for both Faith-Based and Secular families. A parent can choose to allow or hide faith-based content including Unit Studies. LightSail has created hundreds of faith-based Unit Studies, Bookmarks, Quotations, and Memory Modules.
If I want to purchase a book with your Premium Books Shop, do I have to buy a copy for each license I purchased?
How does LightSail’s ChildSafe protection work?
At LightSail, a parent’s ability to oversee their child’s online experience and align it with their faith and values is of the utmost importance. To this end, LightSail contains an entire suite of parental control features and never-before-seen ChildSafe Content Controls giving parents ultimate peace of mind.
These content controls contain dozens of nuanced subcategories for potentially objectionable material based on both maturity and religious factors. Then, it shows parents if a book contains a reference to any of those subcategories and allows them to block or allow single titles or entire subcategories for each child individually. Our ChildSafe Content Controls offer unprecedented insight into and control over the content your children consume without the need to read every book in advance.
- Block or allow individual pieces of content.
- Block or allow entire subcategories of content.
- Require a child to request parental approval before opening entire subcategories of content.
- Block, allow, or require requesting parental approval for all Classics library content.
- Block or require requesting parental approval for all unrated content.
Click here to learn more about all of our parental controls.
Parental Controls
Complete oversight and control over all of your children’s content and activity.
About Us
We are LightSail for Homeschoolers—a complete language arts platform built on the shoulders of LightSail Education, advancing the literacy skills of K-12 students in public, private, and charter schools since 2012.
Gamification
Fun built into every aspect of LightSail’s platform encourages kids on every step of their learning journey. Badges, Social Sharing, and Gift Rewards are all within the Parental Controls!