Okay, I agree with Clayton’s answer, but I GUESS I gotta tell you.

You want to unblock sites? I have 4 ways. Try this:

1. Go to http://chrome://inspect/#extensions and then findyour extension. Click “inspect”. There will be a series of topics on the top, click “console”. Then, at the bottom there is a type pad. Write down: window.close(true) THEN BOOM. It’s gone. To reverse this, restart your computer.
2. Let’s say your school blocks your favorite game, Agar.io ! (JK) go to Real-time HTML Editor and keep that tab open. Then, open a new tab and just search up “Agar.io” . Once you reach the google page, press CTRL+U. It will redirect you to a bunch of coding, then press CTRL+A and after CTRL+C. Press CTRL+V on HTML Editor and then click “Agar.io” from there. And now you can go on it.
3. Another way would be to click the arrow under the website, and something will appear saying: “Cached”. Click it, and it should work.
4. Use this as a last resort. With your Chromebook, click “escape”, “reload”, and the power button on the side all at the same time. Turn it on by clicking any button, but don’t click the power button on the side. Then, click ctrl+d. Then, click enter and follow the steps. BAM, your Chromebook is unblocked.

Hope this helps,

Joey

AFAIK you can’t w/o modifying things. You can turn on developer mode and boot from a USB drive, but I suspect that would violate school rules.

It is a cleaner solution to buy your own PC. You can get a cheap Chromebook for under $200. A new Laptop on sale goes for around $550. I wouldn’t get refurbished because even with insurance you can’t afford any down time. For a PC get one with at least 8GB ram. You can save some money by going with public domain SW, see LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

Change the default extensions to conform with Microsoft, i.e. save documents as .docx.

Unfortunately, if you don’t have an administrator account on the school’s server, you won’t be able to. More than likely the administrator has created an account for teachers, IT staff, and students. All student have been placed in that account and it is restricted. The permissions to access every site, application, or modify settings, has been blocked and only the administrator has access.

Even teachers have limitations. Yes, then can go an edit files for the school’s records, upload timetables, work schedules, and the curriculum for the school year, that’s about it. They can’t modify settings.

With the IT staff, they have more access to change settings based on their role (staff who perform backups, cybersecurity staff, install new applications). Their roles will have some restrictions. It is the administrator who has full access.

I am going anon because I don’t need my school district to see this hole, because I like it.

On my school Chromebook, we have Lightspeed User Agent and filter installed. The method I use is pretty rude, but it works. For me, I open up task manager (shift+esc) and a tab split screen and I type a URL (Ex. www.urbandictionary.com) but don't press enter. For me, If I kill the processes pertaining to the filter software I have about 5 seconds to pull data that I want, such as social media sites. I don't know if this applicable to your filtering software, but I would give it a try. Just don't do anything that will get you in trouble. I am also not liable if your school’s tech dept. detects this activity and you receive a consequence. Hope this helps.

There is one way, but do not try it if you don’t want to get in trouble.

Go into your settings app (make sure you are on the latest ChromeOS version), and search “Google Play” up the top. Click on “Google Play Store”. It should be the only menu that comes up. There should be a button that says, “Manage Android Preferences”. Click on that, and it should take you to a new app which looks very different.

Now that you are in this modified settings app, you should see (under “Personal”) “Accounts”, with the little profile icon next to it. Click on that, and then click “Add Account”

Next, click “Google” (hence you adding another google account to the play store, this account being unrestricted). Now log in with your own personal Google account, or create one in that menu.

Now, you should go back to the starting menu of that app, and click Accounts again, but this time click on Google, instead of Add Account. Wait until your personal account has finished syncing, then open the Google Play Store app on your Chromebook

Now, press on the little sidebar icon (three lines stacked vertically near the top left corner), and click on the little drop-down icon (arrow pointing downwards).

Select your personal account from the drop-down, and wait for the Play Store to reload itself.

Search for the app, “Turbo VPN” and download the app with the mostly orange logo.

Open the app, and click on the carrot icon with the orange circle around it (make sure you are connected to the school’s Wi-Fi while doing this), and you’re finished!

You are now able to access any website, but I wouldn’t recommend going to TV streaming sites like Netflix, because your VPN may be located in a location that isn’t legally able to provide TV-streaming for your country.

Please do not try this unless you take the risk of your computer being taken completely, and maybe even have a little legal trouble.

Thank you.

On most website blocks I have seen used in schools, the sites are blocked before the request hits the DNS server (or may even be blocked by a local DNS resolution server)

What that means, is say they decide to block Quora, they will block the domain http://www.quora.com, so if you type in that domain, the server responsible for blocking that website will block that domain request before it is sent to the DNS resolution server

How a DNS resolution server works, in simple terms, is it translates something we relate to (a word, in this case quora and domain type, in this case commercial or .com) and converts it into something that more digitally understood (IP addresses)

The best way to describe this would be how we understand home addresses, when we announce that we are going to a known place, we say something like “Hey, I’m going to Mike’s house”, we all know who Mike is and where he lives, so it makes no sense to say “Hey, I’m going to 123 Fake St. Fauxville, Madeupstate, USA”, “Mike’s house” would be an example of a domain

Now say you have controlling parents, they know where Mike lives, and don’t want you going there, but they don’t know the mailing address, saying the mailing address would be the best way to get away with getting permission to go

Same thing with website blocks, most blocks will block the domain, but not the IP, so if you bypass the DNS lookup and connect directly via it’s IP, so instead of going to http://www.quora.com, you would go to 192.229.182.210, then you should be able to access quora unblocked

In order to search for what IP a certain website uses, you need to do a reverse DNS lookup, this can usually be done by pinging a website by it’s domain name and seeing what IP it starts to ping, for example, when you ping quora.com, it will begin pinging 192.229.182.210

This may not always work, but it’s always worth a shot of you need to visit a blocked website and can’t or shouldn’t change settings

Hey! so basically our school uses a extension called “Blocksi”, which me and a friend programmed a bypass. - unBlocksi

But, unfortunately go guardian has a generated extension key for each school- which is why my solution won’t work.

So, the only other ways i can think of bypassing it is either enabling dev mode the easy way: How to Enable Developer Mode on Your Chromebook

(dev mode wipes data, and you can also install Linux and use commands like sudo)

Or, if your school has blocked that, try enabling it the hard way:

Or, if that doesn’t work. I have an idea:

Just get yourself a Windows PC. lol.

and if you do have one, we can play together on steam: OtakuParadox is my id.

;)

School Chrome books are commonly used by both students and teachers to access online resources. To promote focus and productivity and protect students from potentially harmful or inappropriate content, school administrators may opt to restrict access to certain websites on these devices.

There are many reasons why schools may choose to block websites on Chrome books, including:

1. Schools may choose to ban websites on Chrome books for a variety of reasons, including:
2. To keep students from accessing unsuitable or offensive content: It is the responsibility of schools to keep pupils safe from dangerous or improper content online. Schools can help to guarantee that pupils are not exposed to improper or objectionable content by blocking specific websites.
3. Schools aim to ensure that students and teachers utilize their gadgets for educational reasons in order to retain focus and productivity. Schools can help students focus and be productive by limiting websites that are distracting or unrelated to their academic work.
4. To protect kids from cyber bullying and other online safety hazards, schools may restrict websites known to be utilized for cyber bullying or other online safety risks.

You jailbreak them. To do that, just hold Escape+Refresh+Power for three seconds. This will open the Chrome OS recovery page, which should have a picture of a USB stick on it. From there press Control+D, which will open the developer mode screen. Press enter on this screen, and your Chromebook will be wiped of all plugins. Many schools use plugins such as Securly to block sites and capture screen data, and those should be removed at this point. From here, restart the Chromebook and enable OS verification by hitting space once you get to the screen stating “OS Verification is OFF”. Restart the Chromebook and continue with the setup, which should automatically connect to the schools setup menu. Log in normally and access sites without the plugins blocking the sites. Please note that this may not work if your school uses a network-based block, and some sites such as YouTube will still be blocked by the Chromebook default school settings.

EDIT: Many users have commented that this did not work for them, I have tried this on an Acer model that was under school management successfully. As with jailbreaking any device, there are risks involved so please make sure you know your device specifications and how to factory reset in the case of an issue.

You don't.

You say “school computer": this implies that the actual (physical) computer belongs to the school. In the USA (where I am located), unauthorized access to a computer or to computing resources can be considered a Federal offence (and most states have similar laws as well).

Remember when the device (Chromebook) was issued to you? If you are a minor (not of legal age / not of the age of majority) your parents signed an “appropriate use policy". If you are of legal age, you signed the policy. Signing the policy acknowledged that the legal owner of the device (the school district) retains all control over the device. Bypassing controls imposed is unauthorized use. In the USA, penalties, if convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) of 1986 (amended 2008), range from 1 year to 20 years (for a second offence of certain sections of the law) (see note 1).

These penalties apply not only to the end user (you) but to the responsible party (your parents) if convicted.

Are there ways around administrative lockdowns? Sure there are. Am I going to share them with you? No way. There's no way, as an IT professional, that I'm going to subvert legal control of a computing asset and compromise both my livelyhood and reputation and my freedom.

(note 1:https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030)

To unblock the Discord is easy if you follow the Step mention below.

Steps to Unblock Discord

If you're having trouble accessing Discord on your school Chromebook, follow these steps:

1. The first link is to open the Discord server itself, while the second one is to unblock Discord from Go Guardian school restrictions.
2. Read More on: How to Unblock Discord on School Chromebook 2023

GoGuardian is Much Like NetSupport School, which they use in the Kennewick School District. I’m assuming you can’t disable it because it is enrolled into the computer system. With NetSupport, It is an Extension forced on the Chromebooks;

So, Overall…you can’t remove or block it.

I'm assuming that you're located in the United States, and probably the Milwaukee Public Schools.

There are several reasons

In the US schools are legally required to control what students can access on their Chromebooks. This is in conjunction with the Federal eRate finding program which requires the school to comply with the Children's Internet Protection Act.

Schools provide you with the Chromebook to facilitate your education and, as such, they are responsible for the appropriate use of school own assets.

They are looking out for your own well-being by watching for: misuse, bullying, sexual content, drugs, alcohol, or violence.

You are entitled to privacy and we are charged with your protection while getting your education.