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Questions from schools, coaching institutes and hostel wardens. 57 questions answered.
- What does Skie give a school?Skie gives a school one dashboard that controls a whole fleet of student tablets or phones. The school chooses which apps work, which websites open, when devices can be used and where they...
- We have five schools and twenty branches. Can we run them all from one Skie account?Yes. One Skie organisation can hold every school, and each school holds its branches, groups, students and devices. Head office sees everything, a branch head sees only that branch, and...
- Who can see what on the Skie dashboard in a school?Each person sees only their own level. An organisation admin sees every school, a school admin sees one school, a branch head sees one branch, a teacher sees their own group, and a parent...
- Can a teacher lock every student tablet in the class during a lecture?Yes. A teacher with access to a class can lock all tablets in that group from the group view, and release them when the lecture ends. They only reach their own group. For a longer routine...
- Can we run a tests-only mode on school tablets?Yes. Attach a stricter app list or a time window to the class, so for the length of the test the tablet shows only the test app and perhaps a calculator. When the window ends, the normal...
- Can the same school tablet follow a timetable through the day?Yes. Skie schedules are windows with days, a start time, an end time and a list of allowed apps. The tablet switches between app sets by itself, for example school hours, break, study block...
- Can Class 8 and Class 11 have different apps on their tablets?Yes. Each group has its own policy and its own app list, so Class 8 can have a small set of learning apps while Class 11 gets subject tools and exam-prep apps. You build the lists once...
- Can head office set rules that branches cannot override?Yes. Settings can be locked at a higher level, so a branch, a school admin or a teacher cannot change them. Head office keeps the safety baseline fixed, and branches adjust only what they...
- Can a coaching institute allow apps like PW or Unacademy on its tablets?Yes. Any learning app that is on Google Play can be added to the app store and put on a group's allowed list, including PW, Unacademy or Byju's style apps. Students then see only those...
- How do we set up 500 student tablets?Create the structure first, then provision tablets in batches. Set up the school, branch and groups, add the students, and set up each tablet with a one-time token using the Skie Provision...
- Can school IT set up tablets from a laptop, or does it have to be a phone?Either works. School IT can provision from a laptop using adb and one pasted command, or from a phone using the Skie Provision app over Wi-Fi pairing. Both create a managed device with the...
- What does the school do if a student loses the tablet?Put the device in lost mode from the dashboard. It locks, shows a contact message, keeps tracking its location, and gathers evidence for a police report, including IMEI, serial, SIM details...
- What do we do when a student breaks a school tablet?Use the replace flow. Set up the new tablet, replace the broken one in the dashboard, and the student keeps their group, rules and history. The old seat is freed, so the school does not...
- What happens to the tablet when a student leaves the school?Reassign the tablet to the next student, or unassign it. The student's data is cleared and the device's history stays, so the school keeps a record of who had it. If the tablet is going...
- How do we hand the tablets to a new batch next year?Reassign them. Open each device or group and assign it to the new student. The old student's data is cleared and the device's history stays. No factory reset is needed, and the seat remains...
- Can we promote a whole class to the next grade in one go?Yes. Skie can promote a whole group, so students move to the next grade's group together and pick up its policy and app list. Individual students can also be moved singly or in bulk by...
- Can a teacher see where students are on the Skie dashboard?Not by default. Location sits behind page access, which is set per role, so the school decides who sees it. Many schools keep it with branch heads or security and leave class teachers on...
- Does tracking tablet location break student privacy laws?Location tracking is lawful or not depending on consent, purpose and your local rules, so a school needs clear consent and a written policy before turning it on. Skie provides the controls...
- Can 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...
- Can parents see the status of their child's school tablet?Yes. A parent can be given read-only access to their own child's device on a school tablet, to see things like online status and whether it is compliant. Parents cannot change anything....
- Can parents change the rules on a school tablet?No. On a school device the parent role is read-only, so parents can look at their child's tablet status but cannot change apps, filters, schedules or protections. Only school admins and...
- Is there a student login for school tablets?Yes. Skie has a student web login used in school flows, and each student is linked to one tablet. A tablet is not shared between students, so the login identifies the student and the device...
- How can a school enforce a mobile phone policy for students?A written policy says what is allowed, and Skie enforces it on devices the school manages. Skie controls school-issued tablets or phones, or devices the family sets up for the school...
- Should mobile phones be allowed in school?That is the school's call, and Skie works with either answer. Some schools ban personal phones and give managed tablets for learning, while others allow phones with managed rules during...
- How do schools manage student tablets?Schools use a device management system that makes the school the Android device owner, so it can fix the app list, filter the web, set a timetable and track compliance across every tablet...
- How do we stop students using social media on school tablets?Keep social apps off the allowed list. Everything not on the list is hidden, students cannot install anything, and the filtered browser covers social sites in Chrome. A timetable can also...
- What if the school Wi-Fi blocks the Skie web filter?Skie detects it and flags it. Some networks block the port the encrypted filter needs, so the tablet falls back to the network's own DNS and the dashboard shows the problem. A network check...
- How do we run a one-to-one tablet programme with Skie?Give each student one tablet, put them in class groups, attach an app list and a timetable per grade, and use the dashboard to watch compliance. Skie ties one student to one device, handles...
- Can a coaching franchise treat each centre as a branch with its own admin?Yes. Each franchise centre can be a branch with its own branch admin, who sees only that centre. Head office keeps the baseline and can lock settings the franchise must not change. Each...
- What should we change on school tablets during exams?Move to a stricter app list or an exam window, keep the web filter on, hide the Play Store, and disable screenshots if you want. Use the impact preview and compliance score before exam day....