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Free for universities
Protect your students from online harm
Ripple BrowserShield is a digital safety net for your students’ most vulnerable moments. It intercepts harmful Internet searches by university students on managed devices. It also connects them to 24/7 mental health support.
Private and secure by design. Free and ready to install today.
The reality for uni students
Your students need more support than ever.You needn’t face this challenge alone.
Academic stress, financial uncertainty, questions of belonging… the pressures of university life can collide. In moments of distress, students turn to the Internet where harmful content is just a click away.
As a student services or wellbeing lead, you do your best to support every student. But not every crisis is visible.
Ripple BrowserShield steps in where you cannot: intercepting harmful searches and connecting students to the help they need.
1st
The leading cause of death for people in the UK aged 20 - 34 is suicide
ONS
1 in 4
young people in England have a common mental health condition
NHS
>26%
of suicide cases in under 20s and 13% in 20–24-year-olds had a suicide-related search history
The Lancet & University of Manchester
Safeguarding learners and staff at 600+ educational institutions across the UK and beyond
Free for universities
Protect your students with Ripple BrowserShield
Enable early intervention and support for students in crisis - at no cost to your university
Ripple BrowserShield – Free and ready to install
Ripple BrowserShield provides free browser-based protection on college-managed devices and comes ready to install.
1.9m+
people protected every week
110K+
harmful searches intercepted to date
15+
high-risk categories covered
How Ripple saves lives
Simple. Safe. Secure.
Ripple BrowserShield creates an online safety net for when a student is at their most vulnerable. If they search on the Internet for something harmful, support is already there – private and non-judgmental. It works safely and invisibly in the background of university-managed laptops and computers.
Student searches online for harmful content
Ripple technology identifies high-risk search terms related to self-harm or suicide.
Calm screen intercepts the search
A message of hope appears on the student's device before any harmful content is displayed.
Student is guided towards support
Free helplines and mental health services are shown, with encouragement to seek help.
Privacy by design
No personal data collected or browsing history stored
Built to the highest standards
ISO 27001 • ISO 9001 Cyber Essentials
Why universities install it
Proactive life-saving digital intervention when students search for harmful content
Free for universities - no procurement approval needed
Supports wellbeing, safeguarding and counselling teams
Works alongside your existing filtering and safeguarding tools
Simple to install and easily configured for age-appropriate signposting
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Can be customised to signpost your uni's own support services alongside national resources. (Fees apply)
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Best for:
University-managed laptops and desktops
Managed devices in digital learning environments
Student and staff laptops with managed browsers
Proactive intervention when it’s needed most
Discover why the University of Portsmouth counts on us for online safeguarding
A moment of risk becomes a moment of support
Closing the gap in online safeguarding
Protect students with specialist digital crisis intervention
Our digital safety technology is built by experts and enhanced by AI. It identifies and responds real-time to thousands of high-risk search patterns online relating to self-harm, suicide, substance misuse, gambling harms, financial struggles and more.
Provide life-saving support at high-risk search moments
While traditional web filters block access to websites, Ripple BrowserShield identifies harmful search intent. Instead of blocking, it intervenes with messages of hope and guides students to trusted mental health support.
Safeguard learners, while protecting their privacy
Ripple BrowserShield does not monitor, track or collect any personally identifiable information or browsing history. It offers support privately and anonymously, so that students can feel safe when seeking help.
Strengthen your existing safeguarding provision
Extend the reach of your student support team, college counsellors or safeguarding leads. Students searching for harmful content can be directed to your own support services, as well as national helplines.
In their words
What universities are saying
“We have deployed Ripple on all university-owned devices that are available to staff, and to students studying on campus using our equipment or who’ve loaned one of our laptops. Colleagues report its ease in relation to the process of adding the extension to our systems and did not hesitate to support its instalment.”
Clare Dickens MBE,
Academic Lead Mental Health and Well-being
University of Wolverhampton
“Ripple’s software is now live on all our university-owned devices, hitting 3,510 staff machines and 3,511 student machines. We thank you for all your hard work your organisation continues to do and for the opportunity for our student and staff to benefit from this amazing software.”
DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY
“Ripple is such an important, non-intrusive factor in suicide prevention – pressing the pause button and giving opportunities to get different thinking in.”
ANNA ROBINSON, MENTAL HEALTH & WELLBEING LEAD
BIRMINGHAM EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
Getting started
Five simple steps to protecting your students
Setting up Ripple BrowserShield for your students is fast and easy.
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Campus-wide, subscription-based protection
For any student and staff device connected to your Wi-Fi network. Customisable, with additional coverage of over 90 harmful categories available, including illegal and illicit content.