SkieWhat can a parent see about a school device in Skie, and can they change anything?
The parent role is read-only on school devices. A parent can see information about their own child's device that the school has chosen to show, but cannot change rules, apps or schedules. The school decides which pages the parent role can open, and parents do not see other children.
Some schools want to be open with families about what is on a tablet the child carries home. Others prefer to keep the dashboard to staff. Skie supports both through a parent role that is deliberately limited.
Read-only means a parent can look, not touch. They cannot allow an app, change a web filter, alter a schedule or move the device to another group. Those decisions stay with the school, which owns the device and the policy. Page access per role controls what the parent can open, so a school can show the device and its status while leaving location pages off.
This is different from Skie for Parents, the separate product for families who manage their own child's phone or tablet. There, the parent is the admin. A parent whose child has a school-owned device is a viewer, and a parent who has bought a device for home would use the parents product on that device.
On privacy, Skie does not read private messages or call logs, has no hidden mode and does not record audio or video. The data a school sees is device identity, location if enabled, installed apps, compliance status and rules applied. The school provides the notices and the policy, and this is general information, not legal advice.
Practical tip: explain the parent role in the first letter home, including what is visible and what is not, so families know what to expect.