SkieSkie for Enterprise · Problem
Hostel night-time phone use and curfew rules
How do I stop residents scrolling all night without taking their phones away?
Wardens usually have two bad choices: collect phones every evening or accept that half the hostel is awake at 2 a.m. Neither scales, and collecting devices causes arguments and safety worries.
15 questions on this problem
- What should a hostel warden or admin check every day and every week?A Skie schedule can run overnight with calls allowed, so night mode switches itself on. The warden checks geofence and breach alerts in the evening, then the silent and low battery devices...
- Can a schedule window run overnight, past midnight?A window can start at 9 pm and end at 6 am, and Skie treats it as one continuous window. There is no midnight split to configure. This suits hostel night mode and bedtime locks, with the...
- How do I set up a night mode on managed phones and tablets?Add an overnight window such as 9 pm to 6 am and allow only what you want then, for example calls and the clock. The device switches by itself and returns to normal in the morning. Because...
- Can hostel night mode still allow phone calls?Hostel night mode is an overnight window that hides games, video and social apps and keeps calls available. A student can phone home or the warden in an emergency. The warden or admin...
- Why would a hostel use Skie for student phones and tablets?A warden cannot watch every room at night, so Skie does it by schedule. A night window switches phones to calls and a clock at lights-out, locked DNS filters the web on any network, risky...
- Can phones be locked automatically at lights-out in a hostel?Add a night window with a start time, an end time and a short allowed list, usually the dialer and a clock. Windows can run overnight, and because the schedule is cached on the phone it...
- What hostel mobile phone rules actually work, and how does Skie enforce them?Each typical rule has a setting. Lights-out is a night window, social apps stay off the allowed list, the web is filtered by locked DNS, hotspots and tethering are blocked, and calls stay...
- Can we stop hostel students from sharing hotspots?Hotspot and tethering are blocked in Skie's hardening policy, which is on by default, and applied per group. A managed phone then cannot share its connection with other phones. Students can...
- Can we control Bluetooth and USB on hostel phones and tablets?Bluetooth, NFC and Wi-Fi Direct can each be disabled with an optional switch, and USB file transfer is blocked by default. On Android 14 and newer you can also disable USB data entirely....
- Can a student change the date and time to stretch a schedule window?Date and time are locked to automatic by default, with auto time and auto time zone forced on, and Skie also uses a trusted clock for sync timing. Schedule windows, including overnight ones...
- Can Skie disable outgoing calls on managed devices?Disable outgoing calls is optional, off by default, and applies to the whole group. Hostel night mode keeps calls allowed, and schedules can change app sets by window. Contacts-only calling...
- Can a hostel make hostel Wi-Fi the only network students can use?Wi-Fi settings can be locked as an optional setting, mobile network settings can be locked, and hotspots can be blocked, which covers much of the need. Switching mobile data off entirely is...
- Can we give hostel students a phone that can only make calls?A group whose allow list holds only the dialer, plus a clock if wanted, gives a calls-only phone today. Contacts-only calling, where only chosen numbers can be reached, is not available...
- Can parents still reach their child during hostel study time?Keep the dialer on the study window's allowed list and parents can ring through while social apps stay hidden. Contacts-only calling, which would limit the dialer to parent numbers, is not...
- What if a hostel student has a second phone that Skie does not manage?Skie manages only the device it is installed on, so a second personal phone is outside its reach and the hostel agreement should say so. What it does give you is visibility: a managed...
Students distracted by phones and apps in class · Tampering, factory resets and bypass attempts · Unsafe websites, other browsers and VPN workarounds · Managing hundreds of devices, classes and branches · Setting up and rolling out devices quickly · Lost, stolen, broken and reassigned devices