SkieCan we draw a campus boundary and get an alert when a tablet leaves?
Yes. Create a geofence around the campus, attach it to a group, and the dashboard raises an alert when a tablet leaves it. You can create, edit and delete geofences and use a go-to directions button. The tablet is not switched off outside campus, because that is not available yet.
A geofence in Skie is a drawn area on the map. You create one for the campus, edit its shape if the school adds a new block, and attach it to a group. When a tablet in that group leaves the area, the event appears in the breach centre with the device and last seen time.
It suits several real needs. A tablet that is meant to stay on campus, such as a shared lab device, tells you the moment it walks out. A hostel can mark the boundary for curfew. A trip can have a temporary geofence around the venue. Using a go-to directions button, staff can open directions to where a device was last seen.
There are limits worth stating plainly. Alerts show on the dashboard. Email alerts and parent notification of alerts are not available yet, and the team is working on both. Disabling the tablet outside campus is not available yet either. What you have is an alert and then your own response, such as a call to the family or a lock.
Location services depend on the device having signal, and indoor accuracy is lower than outdoors, so allow for that when you place a boundary. Do not set one so tight that a tablet near the wall keeps raising false alerts. Skie keeps a protected background location service and grants the permission automatically, so students cannot switch it off.
A practical tip: draw the geofence with a margin around the gates and playground, test it by walking a tablet out, and decide in advance who responds to an alert during school hours.