SkieCan Skie send email or parent notifications for alerts?
Not yet. Alerts appear in the dashboard, in the breach centre and on the pages for each level, but email alerts and parent notification of alerts are not available. The team is working on them, with no date to give. Until then, a short daily check of the breach centre is how most organisations stay on top of alerts.
Many administrators would like a message in their inbox when a device goes quiet, and many schools would like to tell a parent when a tablet leaves campus. Skie does not do either of these yet.
What exists today is the breach centre. It lists devices that are silent, outside a geofence, missing a protection or have missed their check-in, and it works at device, group, branch, school and organisation level. Each person sees the part of the organisation their role covers, and the thresholds for Due, Overdue, Offline unusual and breach are editable. The alert is real and immediate in the dashboard; it is just not pushed out of it.
So the working answer is routine. Put the morning check in someone's day, ideally the person closest to the devices at each level. Our suggested routine is in the school admin routine and the hostel routine. For the highest-risk cases, such as a hostel curfew, a warden can have the geofence page open during the evening.
On parents, school-owned devices can give parents a read-only view if the school chooses, and location access is switchable per role. That is a look, not a notification.
When email and parent notification arrive, they will need the same care as location: a clear policy about who is told what, and why. Skie provides controls; the organisation provides the notices. Practical tip: write your own response steps for each alert type now, so that when notifications arrive you already know what each one should trigger.