SkieWhat should a school admin check every day and every week?
A daily five-minute pass over the breach centre, a sync of anything stale, and a look at charging and Wi-Fi problems, plus a weekly look at Insights, patterns and policy changes. The point is to keep the alert list short and know the normal shape of your fleet. Adjust the times to your school's day.
A routine beats heroics. Most of what goes wrong in a school tablet programme shows up first as a small signal, and a short habit catches it.
Daily, before first period: open the breach centre at your level. Sync any group that looks stale and let it settle. Resolve what has recovered, and note what has not. Look at low battery and the silent share for charging or Wi-Fi trouble, and check any geofence alerts if you use them. Open the Overview to see the summary for your part of the school. Teachers and class admins can do the same for their own group. Lastly, glance at any request from staff to add or change apps.
Weekly: open Insights and read the patterns, starting with the higher-confidence ones. Check average compliance and fully compliant devices, and on latest policy and on latest app after any change. Look at open events per device and ask why any group stands out. Read the audit log for surprises, and check licence expiry notices and seat use. If you made changes, record them in intervention memory.
Each term: review policies and who holds which roles, download a backup, run the network check again if the network changed, and look at devices that have not been seen for a long time. Remember that alerts appear in the dashboard only, as email alerts are not available yet.
Practical tip: give the routine an owner and a deputy. Details for each tool are in breach centre, pattern detection and school tablet management.