SkieCan I lock all devices at once in Skie, and when would I?
Yes. An authorised admin can lock all devices in the organisation at once from the dashboard. Use it for a real emergency, such as a security scare, or to bring everyone's attention to the front. Devices that are offline lock when they next connect or when the screen turns on.
There are moments when you need every screen to stop: a fire drill, a school-wide assembly, a security incident, or a suspected misuse of the dashboard. Lock all devices is designed for that.
The action is available at organisation level. Online devices respond within seconds. Offline devices cannot hear it, so they follow it when they next sync, which happens on reconnect or when the screen turns on and the last sync is stale. Cached rules keep working in the meantime.
Think about who can press it. Because it affects every student and member of staff, restrict it to a very small group of senior roles, and make sure they know how to reverse it. Combine it with the audit log, which shows who did what and when.
It is different from freezing an organisation, which only stops new devices joining. It is also different from a schedule, which locks or changes app sets at set times by itself, and from lost mode, which applies to one device.
A lock is a pause, not a punishment. If used for an incident, tell staff and students what happened and when it will be lifted. Better still, practise it once in a term, with notice, so the first time is not during a real event.
Practical tip: write a one-page procedure for it: who decides, who presses, who confirms it has lifted.