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BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) refers to students using their own personal phones and devices at school, as opposed to school-issued hardware — the context in which most phone-free policies must operate.

Also called bring your own device, student-owned devices

Because most students bring personal phones rather than school-owned devices, a phone-free policy has to work without requiring the school to own or fully manage (MDM-enroll) the device.

Software enforcement designed for BYOD restricts the phone during school hours while leaving the student in possession of their own device and their personal data untouched.

Student BYOD phone enforcement

Related terms

  • OS-Level Phone Locking

    OS-level phone locking restricts a phone's apps and functions at the operating-system layer of the device itself, rather than inside a single app the student controls.

  • Phone-Free School

    A phone-free school is a campus where students cannot use personal cell phones during the school day, enforced through policy and a storage or locking method rather than relying on teacher-by-teacher discretion.

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