SkieWhat if a school or group wants no web filtering at all?
The filter is a policy setting, so an organisation or group can have different filtering levels, but a default filter applies where nobody has chosen one. Skie is built for devices that should be safe for children and managed for organisations, so a no-filter set-up is something to discuss with the team first.
Skie's default is protective, because the typical customer hands devices to students. The default filter is CleanBrowsing Family, applied to organisations that have not picked their own. That is deliberate: a new group should never start unfiltered.
The filter is a policy setting. An organisation or group can choose another from the owner's curated list, and the most specific level applies last. A group of older students, or a staff group, can sit on a lighter filter than a primary class, and a group can have the browser off or restricted instead.
If a group needs less filtering than any option in the list, the request should go to the Skie team. It is a conversation about the group and its use, and not a switch an admin flips unprompted.
Think about who you are serving. Staff devices in a college, a field team, or a senior leadership group may well not need adult-content filtering, while still needing app control, location or lost mode. Skie works for those groups too: the filtering is one set of policies among many.
Practical tip: use groups to match the rule to the person. A group called 'staff' with its own policy and filter is cleaner than relaxing the school-wide setting. Use the where-used view to see what a change will touch before applying it.