Video: Gopher for Chrome Overview

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Gopher Buddy is an extension to Gofer for Chrome letting you see granular session data on managed Chromebooks Gofer Buddy gives you each session start time and duration and the public and private IP address while the user was logged in With this information, you can pin down whether the device was in

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Use at home or at school, and depending on your IP network range, you may even be able to identify the school site where the Chromebook was in use. Gopher Buddy data also pulls to reports.

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So, for example, you can use a single user or single device report to get a 60-day historical session data returning up to 100 recent sessions on the device for the user in question.

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With Gopher Buddy you have all the information you need to become a true Chromebook detective. You can also set the extension to nudge students if they need to catch up in OS versions and take them to the settings page where the update installs.

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But Gopher Buddy cannot force install updates. Finally, there's a one-click, clear cache button for students letting them clear their cache instead of walking them through how to clear the cache in the settings.