SkieCan 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 app and lock controls only. Location also needs clear consent and a written school policy.
Skie can show the live location of a managed device, request a fresh location, and keep a recent trail. That is a sensitive capability in a school, so it is not open to everyone. Page access is switched per role, which means you decide whether teachers, branch heads, school admins or parents can open the location pages at all.
A typical split looks like this. The organisation admin and school admin can see it. A branch head can see it for their branch, mainly for lost tablets and off-campus alerts. A class teacher works with the lock, the app list and the timetable, and has no location page. Parents see their child's tablet status, and location only if the school chooses to give it.
The reason to be strict is privacy and trust. Students and parents are more relaxed about managed tablets when they know that location is a narrow tool with a purpose: a lost device, a campus boundary alert, a trip. It is not a way to watch a child through the day.
Skie does not read private messages, record audio or video, or hide itself. The tablet shows it is managed. Location tracking needs clear consent and a written policy, and Skie provides the controls while the school provides the notices. This is general information, not legal advice, so involve your own counsel for your state and board.
A practical tip: write one paragraph in the school's device policy that says who can see location, when, and why, then match the role settings to that paragraph. If a parent asks, you can show them the exact sentence.