A district decides which AI tools are allowed. Tenet enforces that allowlist on the device, and because it recognizes AI behavior, not just known URLs, it can catch brand-new tools that a traditional blocklist would miss.
Districts do not want every AI chatbot on the open web available to students. Tenet lets a district choose exactly which of the supported platforms are in play, and then enforces that choice in the browser. If a student navigates to an AI tool that is not approved, Tenet blocks it on the spot, before any prompt is sent. Approved tools get the full governance treatment from the other guides; everything else is simply off-limits.
New AI chatbots launch constantly. A web filter that blocks AI by maintaining a list of known URLs is always one step behind: the moment a new tool appears, students find it, and the district is exposed until someone adds it to the list. That is a losing race.
Tenet approaches it from the other direction. Instead of only matching known addresses, it can recognize when a page is behaving like an AI chatbot. That means the approved-AI policy holds even against tools the district has never heard of, which is exactly where the risk lives.
For the platforms Tenet supports, the district turns each one on or off. An unapproved platform is blocked before a student can use it, and the block happens locally so there is no lag.
Tenet can identify when a site is acting like an AI chatbot, rather than relying only on a name it has seen before. That is how it catches new or obscure AI tools a URL list would let through.
When something is blocked, the student sees a clear message, framed the way the district configures it. The recommended posture is to coach and adjust, not to punish normal mistakes.
A web filter governs the whole internet: social media, gaming, inappropriate sites, and so on. That is its job, and Tenet does not replace it. Tenet is the specialist for the AI layer: which AI tools are allowed, and what happens inside the ones that are. The two work side by side, and most districts keep both.
| Question | Web filter | Tenet |
|---|---|---|
| Blocks known AI site URLs | Yes | Yes |
| Catches a brand-new AI tool it has never seen | Not until the list is updated | Recognizes the behavior |
| Governs what happens inside an approved AI tool | No | Yes, fully |
| Per-class control of which AI is allowed | No | Yes (Pro) |
In the dashboard, choose which of the supported AI tools students may use district-wide. Everything else is blocked automatically.
With Pro, a teacher can narrow the approved list further for their own class, for example allowing one tool during a research unit and none during exams.
You stop playing whack-a-mole with new AI sites. The policy holds even against tools you have not catalogued, and it works alongside your existing filter rather than fighting it.
A clear, enforceable answer to “which AI are our students allowed to use?” instead of “whatever they can reach.”
During an exam you can ensure students are not quietly opening some unknown AI tool you have never heard of.