jakemarston95

Thanks both for your helpful feedback!

its web filtering so of course we have a right to block certain websites on our school WIFI.

I agree and the BYOD will of course be going through our school level filtering system so most things are blocked anyway. I have requested a demo from light speed and still waiting to hear back but thanks for your feedback.

We are using Office 365. Lots of the MDM's i have found so far are more aimed at chromebooks but looking into options at the moment.

Thanks for your feedback. We are in the very early stages and have not yet made an final decisions on how we are going to proceed with this but hearing peoples views and opinions is always very helpful and insightful. I think after several chats with companies the only real way to do this is leasing devices to parents as this allows us to have control and then they can purchase the device for a small fee as they leave.

of course we only want to monitor what they are doing in school and not a home but i understand the points you have made. I think our best option will be the lease the devices and they can then purchase them for a small fee when they leave. The entire BYOD is riddled with problems and trying to find the correct solution is extremely difficult. Thanks for your feedback.

We are implementing a compulsory BYOD policy for year 7 next year and I am currently trying to find a decent MDM. We are completely windows here and most of the main ones I have been suggested so far are designed for chrome books. Have any of you already enforced this into your school and if so how is it going? SLT here want some kind of system similar to impero/netsupport where we can see what they are doing on their devices but when the devices are owned by them this becomes a lot more difficult and questionable weather we are even aloud! Another big question mark here is YouTube access as well. We currently block YouTube for all students but some members of SLT or keen to open this up, what are your views and opinions on this? Sorry I know there are a lot of questions so any feedback at all would be very much appreciated!