harmless_saucer

Wow, thank you for such fast responses. So Ativion StudentKeeper monitors everything as it is recording the screen when devices are online - it goes beyond the web browser to read content on iMessages other apps etc... but I have concerns about whether this is either over the top, or will affect battery life and performance. What other solutions are schools using that are not as invasive but still complying to the government regulation?... or will we all have to switch to these new solutions?

Hello, Our school is moving away from parent owned BYOD iPads to School owned an managed iPads. At present we have Smoothwall for filtering web traffic and monitoring when students are onsite. Our IT team are saying that it is a new government requirement that managed devices are also filtered at home and that we can only do this with a system such as Ativion StudentKeeper which monitors all traffic and app data via screen recording. Anything short of this is not meeting Government requirements. From Gov.uk https://www.gov.uk/guidance/meeting-digital-and-technology-standards-in-schools-and-colleges/filtering-and-monitoring-core-standard Your filtering system should be active, up to date and applied to all: school or college-managed devices, including those taken off-site I interpret the above to mean that yes we should have filtering systems for managed devices which children take off-site - but that the filter doesn't necessary have to be active when these devices are connected to other networks (ie at home) My question is this: Is our IT department correct? What are other schools doing about managed iPads when off-site? Is there any further documentation/guidance to support the case either way? Thanks Lawrence