SkieA teacher needs an extra app for one lesson. How do we allow it?
Give the class the extra app for the lesson. Skie can apply extra apps for one lesson to a whole class in one step, or you can use a window with a slightly wider list for that period. When the lesson ends the class goes back to its normal list. The app must already be in the organisation store.
Teachers do not plan lessons around the app list. Sooner or later a science teacher wants a simulation app, or an art teacher wants a drawing tool, for one session. The system has to support that without a request chain that takes a week.
There are two ways in Skie. The first is the extra-apps step, where a teacher with access to the group adds the apps for the lesson to the whole class in one action. The second is a window: you create a short window on the timetable with a slightly longer list, and it starts and ends by itself.
Either way, the app has to be in the store first. All apps come from Google Play. Add it by pasting the Play link, and if approval is on, wait for Skie to approve it. Do this before the lesson, not during it. Once approved it can sit in the store ready for any group to use.
Blocking beats allowing, so if head office has blocked an app, a class cannot enable it for a lesson. Locked settings stay locked. A teacher can only act on their own group.
When the lesson ends the extra apps go away from the screen. They are hidden and not removed, so any work the student saved in the app is still there next time.
A practical tip: ask teachers to submit lesson apps at the start of term, and build a few reusable lesson lists, such as science lab or art. Then most one-off requests turn into a quick choice from a short menu.