Education

Cloud-based solutions that protect children whilst supporting dynamic learning environments.

THE EDUCATION SECTOR CHALLENGE

Educational organisations face increasing demand for digital safety in schools. Timely delivery of products such as real-time monitoring, web filtering, and classroom management tools is crucial. Security and usability must both be maintained at the highest standards.

The challenge is accelerating product development while ensuring both teacher efficiency and student safety. Solutions must handle real-time monitoring of student activity and advanced classroom controls like screen locking and tab monitoring. They must integrate seamlessly with the platforms schools already use.

CAPABILITIES

What we deliver in Education

Real-time monitoring and filtering tools

Implementing robust real-time monitoring and filtering tools to protect students from harmful content. Infrastructure designed to handle the scale schools demand.

Classroom management and controls

Advanced classroom controls including screen locking and tab monitoring. Seamless integration across platforms to meet the diverse needs of schools and students.

Scalability and accessibility

Ensuring scalability and cross-platform compatibility. Cloud-based solutions adaptable for remote and in-classroom learning, accessible to single schools or networks.

Evidencing and teacher support

Creating features like evidencing tools, tab management, and dynamic session controls. Tools that help teachers manage classroom activity in real-time while supporting learning outcomes.

Proof, not promises

PLATFORM MODERNISATION

Smoothwall

Smoothwall is one of the UK's leading digital safeguarding providers, used by 40% of educational organisations nationwide. Abstract embedded specialist engineering teams to help evolve Smoothwall's cloud-based product suite, delivering scalable, secure solutions capable of supporting large-scale educational environments. Working alongside Smoothwall's teams, Abstract developed low-latency distributed architectures, real-time monitoring and content filtering capabilities, and cross-platform classroom management tools designed to perform reliably across diverse devices and school networks.

The result: accelerated delivery of critical safeguarding features, improved platform scalability and performance, and faster time-to-market for new capabilities, helping schools provide safer digital learning environments with greater visibility and control over classroom activity.

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Why schools choose Abstract

We work with organisations building technology that has to hold up under real pressure; safe once it's live, able to grow with the business, and accessible to diverse user profiles. That means taking a genuinely varied set of requirements, from teachers, safeguarding leads, compliance officers, and turning them into software that ships, rather than a specification that sits in a drawer. Smoothwall is the clearest example of that in education.

UK-led on every engagement. The people who scope a safeguarding platform are the same people accountable for it in production, so nothing gets lost in a handover between the team that designed it and the team that has to keep it running. We work through the full lifecycle, gathering the initial requirements, building and testing the platform, and supporting the teachers using it once it was live in schools.

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We'll map where digital safeguarding modernisation would make the most difference in your schools.

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