Parent Permissions Defined

Parent permissions groups are designed to empower schools to grant selected permissions to parents, allowing them to manage their child’s device outside of school hours. These permissions are controlled at the district level, while schools handle the assignment of parents to appropriate groups.

Key Points:

• District-Level Control: Permission groups are managed at the district level. Schools can only assign parents to these predefined groups.
• Single Group Assignment: A parent can only belong to one permission group per school. If a parent is linked to multiple schools, the most restrictive permissions will apply.
• Default Assignment: New parents are automatically assigned to a default permissions group upon creation, and administrators can reassign them as needed.

Assigning Parents to Permission Groups:

• Parents must be assigned to groups individually at the school level. The district manages the overall group structure and permissions.

New Parent Setup:

• A parent can be invited via the school portal. Once created, they are assigned to the default parent group, which the administrator can modify if necessary.

Parent Permissions Categories:

• General Permissions:
  • Out-of-School Hours Control: Allows the parent to manage the child’s device after school hours.
  • Add/Remove Child or Device: Permits to add or remove children or devices to the parent dashboard.
  • Link Child/Device to School: Enables linking a child or device to a school.
  • Application Installation and Removal: Allows installing or removing applications on the child’s device.
  • Configure Notification Settings: Permits configuration of notification preferences.
  • Enable/Disable Vacation Mode: Let the parent apply a no-tracking profile to the child’s device during vacation.

• Home Device Privacy:
  • Location Tracking: Allows tracking the device’s location.
  • Application Installation and Usage Tracking: Monitors applications installed and used on the device.
  • Web History Tracking: Tracks browsing history.
  • Device Restriction Enforcement: Enforces device restrictions.

• Child & Device Details:
  • View student details - Allows the parent to view their child details
    • Edit child details - Selecting this will allow you to edit the student/child details.
  • View device details - This will allow the parent to view the device details
    • Device actions outside of school hours -  This will allow the parent to view the actions button and perform the available actions after school hours.
    • Take control during school hours - Allows the parent to take control of the device during school hours. Allowing them to apply rules and restrictions.
    • Apply device block to limit screen time - Allows the parent to apply the block feature on the device after school hours
  • View location information outside of school hours - This allows the parent to view the location of the device after school hours.
  • View location information during school hours - This allows the parent to view the location of the device during school hours.
  • Event history logs outside of school hours - This Allows the parent to view the device's event history after school hours.
  • Event history log during school hours - Allows the parent to view the device's event history during school hours.
  • View web access history outside of school hours - This allows the parent to view the device browsing history after school hours.
  • View web access history during school hours - This allows the parent to view the device browsing history during school hours.

• Modules:
  • Safe content - Allows the parent to enable Safe content.
    • Block all traffic - Allows the parent to enable Block All Traffic. (Safe content permission must be selected to do so)
    • YouTube filter - Allows the parent to enable YouTube Filter. (Safe content permission must be selected to do so)
  • Application management - Allows the parent to manage the Applications for the device
    • Block all applications - Allows the parent to block applications (Application Management permission must be selected)
    • Autoblock new applications once installed - Allows the parent to automatically block any new applications that are installed on the device (Application Management permission must be selected)

#Note: Application Management permission list are only available on supervised iOS devices. To find out how to supervise your iOS device, click here.

• Restrictions configuration - Allows the parent to set restrictions on devices
  • Android settings - Allows the parent to restrict the legacy settings for Android = Disable access to settings, Disable 3rd party browsers and WiFi connectivity (Restriction Configuration permission needs to be selected)
  • iOS settings - Allows the parent to restrict the legacy settings for iOS. (Restriction Configuration permission needs to be selected)
• Passcode requirements - Allows the parent to enable passcode policy on the iOS device
• Places - Allows the parent to view and set zones for the child's device
  • GPS-based places - Allows the parent to set the zone with Coordinates (Places Permission has to be selected for this option to be available)
  • Non-GPS-based places - Allows the parent to send the zone with an SSID and IP Range (Places Permission has to be selected for this option to be available)
• Use school after-hours block profile -  if selected on the parent permission group, it will allow the school block profile to be active on the child's device after hours.
  • Allow override of after-hours block profile - If set as active the parent would be able to override the after-hours school block profile by applying a non-blocking rule.

Administrators can efficiently manage and assign parent permissions using these categories to control and customise the access parents have to their child’s device.

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