SkieWhat can a branch head or head of department do in Skie?
A branch head, or section head or HOD, manages one branch or department. They see the groups, students and devices in their branch, handle day-to-day issues in the breach centre for that branch, and invite teachers. They work inside the rules set above them and cannot see other branches.
The branch is the level where a real site or section sits: a campus, a hostel block, a franchise outlet or a department. The head of that branch needs enough control to run it without calling head office, and not so much that they can undo central rules.
In practice a branch head looks at the dashboard for their branch, sees which devices are Due, Overdue or in breach, and syncs or resolves them at branch level. They manage the groups in the branch, moving students between them, and invite and disable teachers and class admins. For a franchise, they stand in for a local manager.
They apply policy and app lists to groups within what the levels above allow. Rules flow down, and the most specific level is applied last, but organisation-level locked settings cannot be changed here. Blocking beats allowing in the combined result.
As with every role, the organisation decides which pages the branch head can open. If you do not want a branch to see location data, switch that page off for the role. Reports and Insights are limited to the branch, so one branch's numbers do not appear in another's.
Practical tip: give each branch head a short written list of what they should do daily, such as checking the breach centre in the morning, and what to escalate, such as a device that cannot be found.