SkieCan hardening settings differ by school, branch or group in Skie?
Yes. Every hardening switch can be set at organisation, school, branch or group level, and the most specific level applies last. A trust can keep one baseline across all campuses while the senior school turns the camera off for exams and a hostel branch locks Wi-Fi settings, each on its own group of devices.
Skie organises customers as organisation, school, branch, group, student and device. Policies flow down that chain. A setting made at organisation level reaches every device beneath it, and a school, branch or group can override it for just its own devices. Where two levels disagree, the more specific one wins.
For hardening this means you rarely need separate policies for every campus. Set the baseline once at the top. Then handle exceptions where they belong. A class of Year 11 students sitting a practical exam might get camera and screenshots disabled for the week. A primary school group might get a stricter set than a sixth form group. A hostel branch might turn on Wi-Fi lock because every device connects to the hostel network only.
Role matters as well. A class admin or teacher cannot reach organisation-wide hardening unless you give them page access, and page access can be switched per role. Before you save a change, the impact preview shows how many devices it will reach, and the effective policy view shows what a single device ends up with after all levels are combined.
Practical tip: keep the number of overrides small. If you find yourself overriding the same switch in many groups, move it up one level instead. A short list of exceptions is easy to audit later.