Bark’s web-based services operate on our school’s managed G Suite for Education Chrome accounts (i.e. when a student is logged into Chrome or a Chromebook with his/her school email address).

Cuero ISD uses Bark for Schools to help protect your student during the school day and beyond by:

• monitoring Google products (mail, docs, etc...) for signs of potentially harmful issues (cyberbullying, threats, etc.)
• blocking inappropriate videos, images, sites, and more

In the event that a student accesses material that is deemed harmful or inappropriate, school counselors and/or administrators can be notified and will work with the student/parent to review/resolve the issue when necessary.

Bark for Schools also allows parents to play an active role in monitoring online activity through a secure Parent Portal. 

We ask that students use their school-managed Google accounts and school-managed devices for educational purposes within the guidelines set forth in the district Student Code of Conduct.

When a student is off-campus, parents/guardians are responsible for supervising internet access and usage. When a student is off-campus, especially after-hours, parents/guardians are responsible for supervising internet access and usage. After-hours is defined as 3:00 pm to 8:00 am Monday through Friday, weekends, holidays and school breaks.

 We encourage you to discuss rules for appropriate internet usage with your student and to reinforce lessons of digital citizenship and safety with him or her. We also highly encourage you to report any potential cyberbullying or other sensitive issues to your student's campus administrators.

Parents are also encouraged to sign up for the Bark for Schools Parent Portal to help monitor their student's online activity outside of school hours.  

To help your child remain scholarly and safe online, Bark for Schools collects certain personally identifiable information about your child. Bark participates in privacy organizations and is a proud signatory of the Student Privacy Pledge.  They comply with the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), CIPPA, and COPPA.

For more detailed information about Bark, you may visit Bark’s website, Privacy & Security information, and Bark for Schools Safety Compliance Information.

The Bark for Schools Parent Portal is a free service parents/guardians can sign up for that will allow them to help monitor student internet activity outside of school hours (M-F 3pm-8am, weekends, and school breaks). For more information on the Parent Portal, please go here. 

Through the Parent Portal, parents/guardians can receive alerts when student activity on monitored products is flagged for one or more key elements:

• depression
• cyberbullying
• sexual content
• suicidal ideation
• and more

Along with a snippet of the flagged activity, Bark for Schools provides parents/guardians links to resources on how to talk with their student on the flagged topic.  As privacy and security are essential, Bark will not share the names of any other student involved as a participant in a flagged item.  The only exception would be if a student's name was actually listed in the body of the item (i.e. in an email message or in a Google Doc).

*Google products on school-issued student accounts monitored by Bark for Schools:

• Gmail: Subject, Body, Attachments (Images and Videos)
• Drive: Photos, Videos, PDFs, Office documents (.doc, .docx, etc.), Plain text files, etc
• Google Docs/Slides, etc: Content, Embedded Images, Comments, and Replies Content, Embedded Images, Comments, and Replies, etc

To create your account or login, please visit the website here.