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Student BYOD phone enforcement, without MDM on family phones.

Your device management covers the Chromebooks you own, not the iPhone in a student’s pocket, and families won’t enroll their own phones. LockedIn is an app students install and sign into with their school email. On campus during school hours, the apps your school blocks are locked.

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What a student sees on campus during school hours. Each school chooses the apps that stay available.

How do schools enforce phone rules on students’ own phones?

Device management (MDM) is the right tool for the Chromebooks and laptops your school owns, but families won’t enroll their personal phones in it. For those phones there are three options: collect them (pouches or lockers), rely on a written policy, or use an app students install. LockedIn is that app: students sign in with their school email, the apps your school blocks lock on campus during school hours, and no management profile goes on the phone. Keep MDM for school devices and use LockedIn for phones.

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Enforcement built for phones you don’t own.

You get the records an administrator needs without treating a family’s phone as a district device.

  • No profile on the phone

    There is no device-management profile, so the school never takes control of a family’s phone. Students install LockedIn from the App Store or Google Play and sign in with their school email.

  • Scoped to school hours on campus

    The lock applies inside your campus boundary during the hours you set. Before school, after the last bell and off campus, the phone works normally.

  • Collects what enforcement needs

    Whether the phone is on campus and whether it’s locked. Never texts, photos, browsing or which apps a student opens. Activity records delete themselves after 90 days.

  • Shows you the gaps

    Students who never installed the app, deleted it, or signed in on a second phone show up on the dashboard by name, so the follow-up starts with facts.

LockedIn and MDM, for phones students own.

Device management stays essential for the devices you own. This is about the ones you don’t.

  • Built for

    LockedIn
    Phones students and families own
    Device management (MDM)
    Devices the district owns and enrolls

  • What goes on the phone

    LockedIn
    An app, signed in with a school email. No profile.
    Device management (MDM)
    A management profile the family has to accept

  • What it controls

    LockedIn
    The apps your school blocks, on campus during school hours
    Device management (MDM)
    Whatever the profile allows, all the time

  • Family consent

    LockedIn
    Scoped to school hours. The phone is the family’s again after the last bell.
    Device management (MDM)
    Hard to ask for on a personal phone

  • When it’s missing

    LockedIn
    Students without the app get a reminder email every school day and show up as Never Installed
    Device management (MDM)
    A phone that was never enrolled is invisible

  • What it reports

    LockedIn
    Who is locked in, who needs attention, and why
    Device management (MDM)
    Device inventory and security

  • Keep it for

    LockedIn
    Student phones
    Device management (MDM)
    Laptops, tablets and Chromebooks

Students will test it. Your dean will know.

Every phone policy gets tested in its first week. These are the workarounds schools ask us about most, and what the dashboard shows when a student tries one.

The dean’s dashboard mid-morning. Sample school and student names.

  • Signing in on a decoy phone

    Dashboard alert: Fake Device

    A phone flagged as a decoy doesn’t count as the student’s until you approve it. Until then, the dashboard marks it.

  • Deleting the app

    Dashboard alert: Possible Uninstall

    A phone that stops checking in for about two school days is flagged as a possible uninstall. A confirmed removal shows up as App Uninstalled.

  • Never installing it

    Dashboard alert: Never Installed

    A student on your roster without the app gets a reminder email every school day. From your launch date, each school day without it is filed as a violation.

  • Faking or switching off location

    Dashboard alert: Location Issues

    Turning off the app’s location access is flagged as Location Issues, and so is an iPhone with Location Services off. On Android, a faked GPS position is flagged as Mock Location.

Each flag carries the student’s name, so the follow-up is a conversation with facts in it.

Questions schools ask us.

  • No. Keep your device management for the laptops, tablets and Chromebooks the district owns. LockedIn covers the personal phones that device management can’t reach.

  • Follow your local policy and counsel. LockedIn gives you a letter for families, a parent FAQ and a page that explains exactly what the app can see, and families can ask for a copy of their child’s data, or for it to be deleted, at any time. The page for families

  • iPhone and Android. Students install LockedIn from the App Store or Google Play and sign in with their school email.

  • Each school is live within a week: a kickoff call, a roster sync from Clever, Veracross, Blackbaud, OneRoster or a CSV, a 30-minute training, the family letter, and launch week with us watching the dashboard. You can start with one campus as a pilot.

Further reading

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