Reporting student device screen time

[thimon]

Morning all. Sorry if this has been raised already, do you currently have any reliable way of reporting student device screen time? It looks like it will eventually be a metric that we will have to report - Government to review children's screen time in schools | Tes We have a BYOD scheme at the senior school, where students bring in personal devices, so I imagine would be much harder to report such data on. Internet activity can't be relied on, as devices will still ping online activity even when not actively used. Thank you. 

[Sylv3r]

We aren't currently doing anything with it i.e. looking at reports etc. But I understand that Lightspeed filtering now has this functionality.

[tom_newton]

We have this functionality in our US filter stack - it will be coming to the UK in due course

[thimon]

@tom_newton Can it report the same data for personal devices that connect to school WiFi? 

[sigma]

The Government release doesn't mention anything about "time" per se, but looks to be rather more qualitative as far as schools are concerned.

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/newguidance-on-screen-use-for-children-aged-5-16

[sigma]

If anyone feels inclined, this is where you can respond to the Government Call for Evidence:

https://consult.education.gov.uk/screen-time-policy-team/screen-use-by-children-aged-5-to-16-cal/

[tom_newton]

18 minutes ago, thimon said:

@tom_newton Can it report the same data for personal devices that connect to school WiFi? 

It won't be able to do as good a job, no