Get ahead of student safety concerns
Student safety shouldn’t start with an incident. Bark for Schools helps teams move from reactive to proactive: identifying concerns earlier, understanding context, and getting actionable information to the right people before issues escalate.
Students often signal what’s happening
before adults see it.
See concerns sooner
Identify potential risks across student digital activity.
Understand what matters
Context-aware AI interprets slang, emojis, and context to reduce unnecessary alerts.
Reach the right people
Route alerts based on student groups, risk types, and response processes.
“Our previous solution was generating a high volume of false positive alerts. This created significant alert fatigue among school teams, leading to desensitization and delayed response times that risked student safety. By transitioning to a system that combines advanced filtering with human review, our staff now has greater confidence in the validity of notifications.”
—School Safety Director, Bay District Schools
Choose the level of visibility your school needs
Essential visibility
Know when students may need help
Core monitoring and alerts across student activity, Parent Portal, 24/7 severe alert emails.
Early insights, faster action
Get the right information to the right people
Higher-frequency monitoring, expanded content coverage, custom workflows, reporting/insights, Gemini monitoring, Bark AI Assistant, urgent-alert text support, and more.
Broadest visibility
Keep pace with how students communicate
Everything in Plus, with expanded image/video monitoring across Canva, Google Slides, and Google Sheets to help close emerging blind spots.
Find the right fit for your school
Choose Free if...
You want core student safety monitoring and alerts without adding budget.
Choose Plus if...
You want faster monitoring, expanded content coverage, more ways to respond to urgent concerns, and stronger reporting and administrative tools.
Choose Advanced if...
You want everything in Plus plus Bark’s broadest visibility into visual student activity, including images and videos in Canva, Google Slides, and Google Sheets.
How Littleton strengthened early intervention
After experiencing critical incidents, Littleton Public Schools looked beyond reactive safety measures. Bark became another layer in its safety ecosystem, surfacing early warning signs and helping trained staff intervene before situations escalate.
“We already had safety measures in place, but Bark filled a gap we didn’t even realize was there. It helps surface early warning signs that other tools can miss and gives our team the context we need to respond quickly and thoughtfully. Bark has become an essential element of our student safety puzzle, as it helps to identify risk and support students in all aspects of prevention, intervention, and postvention."
—Jon Widmier, Mental Health Coordinator (High Schools), Littleton Public Schools
Bark in action: Key applications
Threat assessment
Proactively identify potential violence-related messages and content sooner and standardize responses.
Self-harm and suicidal ideation
Surface early indicators of mental health issues so trained staff can intervene quickly and connect students to support.
Mental health trend visibility
Spot patterns around depression, anxiety, body-image concerns, and other rising issues within certain groups or grades.
Bullying and harassment
Spot issues that often begin online and quickly impact school life on campus, enabling faster resolution.
After-hours response
Share responsibility for after-hours alerts with parents to help ensure timely intervention and guidance.
Our technology
Bark’s industry-leading technology is safe, secure, and built for educators, administrators, and parents who need reliable tools to monitor and support students digitally.
FAQs
Bark uses advanced AI to monitor texts, emails, and 30+ apps for signs of serious safety concerns like cyberbullying, self-harm, suicidal ideation, online predators, sexual content, violence, and drug or alcohol use. It analyzes context and tone—not just keywords—so alerts are more accurate and meaningful. You can see a full breakdown of how Bark’s monitoring works here.
Alerts are generated when potentially harmful content is detected in students’ school-issued accounts. These alerts are added to the reviewer dashboard for staff to review. Reviewers assigned to those student groups receive notifications via email and can see the flagged content directly in their Bark for Schools dashboard, with options to filter and manage alerts.
Schools using Bark for Schools+ can also configure alerts to be sent by text and phone call for urgent issues, and alerts can be shared with parents through the Parent Portal once enabled. Learn more about the process here.
Our advanced AI monitors Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 accounts, including emails, documents, spreadsheets, chats, files, and more. Check out the full list to see everything we monitor.
Set up is easy! Learn more in our Super Admin’s guide.
Bark supports documentation and consistency across schools by giving reviewers a centralized dashboard to view, sort, and track alerts generated from monitored student accounts, complete with review history and timestamps so everyone can see what actions were taken.
It also provides reporting tools that break down alert trends by category, group, and date, which helps schools maintain consistent review practices and share insights across teams. For more details on how reviewers can use these features to standardize safety efforts, see Bark’s reviewer guide.
Our success team works to meet your needs, suggesting quarterly check-ins but available to meet less or more often! During these meetings, we’ll check in on the account, share robust insight reports, and provide the school teams with ongoing training to ensure new and old employees are up to date on how to receive critical alerts.
Security is one of our highest priorities at Bark, and we adhere to all of the standards required by FERPA, a federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. In an effort to provide maximum protection for students and their families, many states have adopted their own privacy legislation in addition to FERPA, and we meet or exceed each of these requirements, as well.
Yes! Bark for Schools offers a free monitoring tier, and every tier uses the same context-aware AI. It reads slang, emojis, and tone, not just keywords, to alert school staff to situations that may signal physical harm or risks to student mental well-being. With Free, all alerts appear in your reviewer dashboard, severe alerts are emailed 24/7, and families can be brought in through the Parent Portal.
Paid tiers are built for schools that know timing is everything. Monitoring runs more frequently, so alerts reach your team faster. Non-severe alerts are delivered by email too, so warning signs don’t sit unseen in the dashboard. Urgent alerts can also go out by text, with U.S.-based human review and 24/7 escalation for severe concerns.
Bark for Schools Plus ($3/student/year*) adds image removal, custom notifications and exportable reports to track trends and inform resourcing, the Bark AI Assistant, and expanded coverage: Gmail and Google Docs images and videos, Google Slides and Sheets text, and Gemini.
Bark for Schools Advanced ($3.75/student/year*) includes everything in Plus, plus Bark’s broadest visibility into visual student activity. That covers image and video monitoring in Canva, Google Slides, and Google Sheets, to help close blind spots as students find new ways to create and communicate.
Paid tiers help schools catch concerns earlier and shift from reactive response toward prevention, with industry-leading monitoring technology at one of the lowest prices on the market.
Not sure which tier fits your school? Compare all three tiers side by side or reach out to our team at sales@bark.us.
*Bark for Schools Plus has a minimum of $1,200/year, and Advanced has a minimum of $1,500/year.