SkieSkie for Enterprise · Problem
Managing hundreds of devices, classes and branches
How do I control every device in a school, a chain of branches or a company without touching each one?
Changing one setting on 500 tablets by hand is not a plan. Real organisations also have layers: schools, branches, classes, teachers who should only see their own students.
58 questions on this problem
- Can a government tablet or phone scheme use Skie?A scheme can mirror its structure: organisation, district as a school or branch, group per batch. Each device takes one seat, the app list and filter apply down the tree, and district heads...
- Can each franchise have its own admin in Skie?Create each franchise as a branch and invite its owner as a branch admin. They manage their own groups and devices, and rules flow down from the head organisation unless the branch sets a...
- Can different departments have different rules in Skie?Each department becomes a group with one policy and one app list. Sales gets maps and a CRM, accounts a finance app, the warehouse a scanner. Use the effective policy view to confirm what a...
- Can the CEO or senior managers be exempt from the strict rules?Put senior managers in their own group with a lighter policy and a wider app list. Rules flow down from the organisation and the most specific level applies last, so executives can differ...
- Can hardening settings differ by school, branch or group in Skie?Set a baseline once at organisation level and it flows down through schools, branches and groups. Where one group needs something different, such as the camera off for an exam batch, change...
- What is policy reach in Insights?Policy reach shows how many groups and devices sit under a policy. Skie also provides a where-used view and an impact preview before any change, so you see the reach before you save. Since...
- What does the Overview page show for each role?Skie gives each role a view that fits its place in the structure of organisation, school, branch, group, student and device. Rules flow down, and what a person sees follows their role, with...
- Can we compare branches or schools in Insights?Because Skie keeps daily snapshots at group, branch, school and organisation level, an organisation admin can compare branches on readiness, compliance, silent share and open events. Use it...
- What does the Skie audit log record?The audit log gives an organisation a trail of who did what and when, which matters when several admins share one structure. Use it after a surprise change to find the date, then open the...
- Can I lock every device in the organisation at once?A Skie admin with the right role can lock every device in the organisation at once from the dashboard. It suits a data scare, an exam hold or an evacuation. Offline devices lock when they...
- What does freezing an organisation do?Skie lets an organisation be frozen so that no new device can be provisioned until the freeze is lifted. Devices already enrolled keep working under their rules. It fits seat clean-ups and...
- Does the Skie dashboard work on a phone, and is there a dark mode?The Skie dashboard is responsive and has dark and light mode, so a warden can open the breach centre on a phone at night and a head can check Insights on a tablet. It is a browser...
- Can I see who a policy change will affect before I save it?Before a policy or app list change is applied, Skie shows an impact preview of the groups and devices it will reach. A where-used view and an effective policy view back it up. Because...
- What should a school admin check every day and every week?Skie turns a school routine into a short loop. Each morning, open the breach centre, sync stale devices and resolve what recovered. Weekly, read Insights, pattern detection and the audit...
- Why does each group have one policy and one app list?Each group carries exactly one policy and one app list, so an admin can answer what rules apply to a tablet by looking at one place. Different mix for some students means a separate group....
- How do organisation defaults and rules reach schools and groups?Set defaults once at the organisation level and they flow to every school, branch and group. A branch or class can refine them, with the most specific level applied last. Blocks set higher...
- Can I apply a policy or app list to a whole group at once?Attach a policy or app list to a group in the dashboard and every device in it receives the change together. Devices pick it up on their next sync, or straight away when the screen turns on...
- Can Class 6 and Class 11 have different policies and apps?Each class is its own group with its own policy and app list. Class 6 can have a strict policy and short list, Class 11 a lighter policy and more apps. Organisation defaults still apply to...
- If a device is reset and set up again, does it take a second seat?Skie uses identity recognition by IMEI or serial number. A device reset by mistake and provisioned again is matched to its earlier record, so the seat count stays right. Licences are seat...
- How many seats does a provisioning run use?One enrolled device takes one seat, and Skie licences are one device per seat. The owner grants seats, the readiness gate checks that one is free before provisioning, and the dashboard...
- How do you freeze provisioning for an organisation?Freezing is a licence control on the organisation. It blocks new provisioning while enrolled devices keep working and keeping their rules. Lift the freeze when the rollout is ready to...
- How do we hand over tablets to the new batch at the start of the next school year?Promote the whole group so a class moves up in one step, and use reassign for new admissions. Tablets stay managed with no reset. Before handing them out, check the seat count and the app...
- How is an organisation structured in Skie: school, branch, group, student and device?Skie uses a tree: organisation, school, branch, group, student, device. Policies, roles and reports attach at the right level, and each student has one device. A trust with many sites, a...
- How do rules flow down in Skie, and which level wins?Rules set high up apply below, and the most specific level is applied last. Blocking beats allowing, so a block set above cannot be undone by an allow below. Use the effective policy view...
- What roles exist in Skie and who can do what?The roles are Skie owner and technician, organisation admin, school admin, branch or section head, class admin or teacher, and parent, who is read-only on school devices. Each role works at...
- What do the Skie owner and Skie technician roles do?These two roles belong to the Skie team. They grant seats, curate the web filters that organisations can choose from, approve apps submitted to the catalog and look after releases. Customer...
- What can an organisation admin do in Skie?The organisation admin has the widest view inside a customer account. They set organisation-wide policy and locked settings, pick the web filter from the owner's list, manage schools, users...
- What can a school admin do in Skie?A school admin works inside one school. They organise its branches and groups, choose policies and app lists for those groups, invite and disable users at their level and handle breach...
- What can a branch head or head of department do in Skie?A branch head, section head or head of department sees the groups, students and devices of their own branch. They deal with day-to-day issues in the breach centre for that branch, such as...
- How do I invite a user to the Skie dashboard?Admins invite users from the users area, choosing a role and the place in the tree where that person works. The invited person gets access at that level only. Giving each staff member their...
- How do I disable a user in Skie when a staff member leaves?Find the person in the users list and disable them. Their dashboard access stops straight away, while their past actions stay in the audit log. This is the clean way to handle a leaver, and...
- How do I move a student to another group in Skie?Open the student, choose the new group and move them. The device stays the same, takes the new group's policy and app list at the next sync and the student's history comes along. No second...
- How do I promote a whole group to the next year in Skie?Use promote on the group and the whole class moves to its next-year group in one step, with students, devices and history intact. Devices pick up the new group's policy and app list at...
- What does freezing an organisation do in Skie?Freezing blocks new provisioning for the organisation, so nobody can enrol extra devices until it is unfrozen. Already enrolled devices keep their rules. Use it when you suspect misuse of...
- Can I lock all devices at once in Skie, and when would I?An authorised admin can use panic lock to lock every device in the organisation at once from the dashboard. It is meant for emergencies, such as a security scare or a need to get everyone's...
- What does Skie give a school?A school gets one web dashboard organised as organisation, school, branch, group, student and device. Admins set app lists, web filtering, timetable windows and lock rules once, and they...
- We have five schools and twenty branches. Can we run them all from one Skie account?Build the organisation once, add each school under it, then each branch and group. Rules set at the top flow down and the most specific level applies last. Head office gets the whole view...
- Who can see what on the Skie dashboard in a school?Skie ships with roles for owner, organisation admin, school admin, branch or section head, class admin or teacher, and a read-only parent. Each role sees only its own level, and page access...
- Can head office set rules that branches cannot override?Set the safety baseline at organisation level and lock it, so schools, branches and teachers inherit it without being able to change it. Lower levels adjust only what you leave open....
- Can we promote a whole class to the next grade in one go?Choose the group and promote it, and every student moves to the next grade's group together, taking on that group's policy and app list. Individual students can also be moved singly or in...
- Can parents change the rules on a school tablet?On a school-managed device the parent role is read-only by design. Parents can look at their child's tablet but every change goes through a school admin or teacher with the right role....
- How do schools manage student tablets?Skie runs as the Android device owner on each tablet, so the school fixes the app list, filters the web by locked DNS, sets timetable windows and sees a compliance score from one dashboard....
- How do we run a one-to-one tablet programme with Skie?Skie is built for one-to-one. Each student is bound to a single tablet and a seat, placed in a class group that carries an app list and a timetable. Lost, broken and handover cases have...
- Can a coaching franchise treat each centre as a branch with its own admin?Set up each centre as a branch with its own branch admin and each batch as a group. Head office locks the baseline settings, and centres change only what is left open, including their own...
- Can head office compare branches and see which ones are falling behind?Insights keeps daily snapshots per group and shows readiness, fully compliant share, average compliance, on latest policy, online and silent share, low battery and open events by branch....
- Can the warden lock every phone and tablet at once in an emergency?Lock all locks every device in the organisation at once, and panic lock is there for sudden situations. Online devices pick it up quickly, and offline ones apply it at the next sync. Roles...
- Can one hostel with many blocks and floors be managed in Skie?Model the hostel with the existing levels: the hostel as a school, each block as a branch, each floor as a group. A hostel-wide rule flows down, a floor can add its own schedule or app...
- How do we give each warden access only to their own block?Invite the warden as a branch head for their block, or as a group-level admin for a floor. They then see only that part of the hostel. Page access can hide location or settings from their...
- What if the hostel changes its phone rules in the middle of term?Edit the policy or schedule and run the impact preview first, which lists the devices the change will touch. Once saved, online devices pick it up within seconds and the others at their...
- Can different schools or groups use different web filters?Skie policies flow down the structure of organisation, school, branch and group, and the most specific level applies last. An admin picks a filter at the top, then overrides it for a group...
- How do I give contractors temporary access to a managed device?Assign a device to the contractor, put it in a group with only the apps needed, then reassign or remove it at the end of the contract. Time-limited access that expires on its own is not...
- Does Skie support single sign-on or integration with HR systems?Not yet. Single sign-on and an HR system link are not available, and the team is working on integrations with no dates. Today you invite and disable users by hand, assign roles from owner...
- Is there an API or ERP integration for Skie?Not yet. An open API and ready-made ERP links are not available, and the team is working on them with no dates. Today the dashboard handles groups, policies, app lists, the audit log and...
- How do devices and admins find out when a policy changes?Policy changes reach devices as signed bundles, and the audit log records who made each change, while Insights tracks uptake. Email notification of changes is not available yet, and the...
- Why does Skie use one student and one device, and can tablets be shared?Skie ties one seat to one student and one device so rules, location and history belong to a person. Shared tablets are not a normal setup. If a device must pass between students, the...
- How do I move many students at once in Skie?Bulk move lets you select existing students and send them to a destination group in one step, and their devices take the new rules at the next sync. Bulk student upload from a spreadsheet...
- Is there a student login for school tablets?Skie ties each student record to exactly one device, so history and rules follow the child and a tablet is not shared. A student web login exists for school flows, and what a student can...
- What is the signed-in user block in the dashboard?Skie dashboards are role-based, from Skie owner to class admin, and the signed-in user block shows which role you are using. See the knowledge base page on roles if something is missing.
Students distracted by phones and apps in class · Hostel night-time phone use and curfew rules · Tampering, factory resets and bypass attempts · Unsafe websites, other browsers and VPN workarounds · Setting up and rolling out devices quickly · Lost, stolen, broken and reassigned devices