Student phone compliance monitoring that never reads a message.
See which students are locked in during school hours, who needs attention, and why, without seeing a single text, photo or search. LockedIn turns a phone policy into a live dashboard and reports your board can read.
No hardware. Live within a week. Pilots for one grade or one campus.
How to monitor phone use during school hours, without surveillance.
“We think it’s working” stops being an answer once the board asks. Here’s what LockedIn shows instead.
Who’s locked in
The dashboard counts students locked in, students who need attention, and students who don’t need to be locked right now, with each student’s status a click away.Why a student needs attention
Real reasons, not a red dot: Never Installed, Possible Uninstall, Fake Device, Location Issues, Mock Location. Each comes with what to ask the student to do.Follow-up that runs itself
Students who never installed the app get a reminder email every school day, and from your launch date each day without it is filed as a violation to the dean’s or administrator’s inbox.Monitoring that stops at the policy
LockedIn checks whether the phone is on campus and whether it’s locked. Never texts, calls, photos, browsing or which apps a student opens.
LockedIn and hallway spot checks.
From sampling a few hallways to knowing about every enrolled student.
| Question | LockedIn | Spot checks and referrals |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | Every enrolled student, during school hours | The hallways someone walked |
| When you find out | When the dashboard flags it | When a referral is filed, often days later |
| What you can show the board | Live dashboard and reports | Anecdotes and referral counts |
| Consistency | The same check for every student | Depends on who walked by |
| Staff time | Minutes, for whoever handles alerts | Hall sweeps and paperwork |
| Privacy | On campus or not, locked or not. Never messages, photos or browsing. | Staff see whatever is on screen when they take a phone |
Coverage
- LockedIn
- Every enrolled student, during school hours
- Spot checks and referrals
- The hallways someone walked
When you find out
- LockedIn
- When the dashboard flags it
- Spot checks and referrals
- When a referral is filed, often days later
What you can show the board
- LockedIn
- Live dashboard and reports
- Spot checks and referrals
- Anecdotes and referral counts
Consistency
- LockedIn
- The same check for every student
- Spot checks and referrals
- Depends on who walked by
Staff time
- LockedIn
- Minutes, for whoever handles alerts
- Spot checks and referrals
- Hall sweeps and paperwork
Privacy
- LockedIn
- On campus or not, locked or not. Never messages, photos or browsing.
- Spot checks and referrals
- Staff see whatever is on screen when they take a phone
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.
Signing in on a decoy phone
Dashboard alert: Fake DeviceA 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 UninstallA 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 InstalledA 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 IssuesTurning 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.
Yes. You can download the student list, with each student’s status, as a spreadsheet, and request a school compliance export from the dashboard to share with your board or use for any reporting your state requires. Tell us what your state asks for and we’ll show you what it looks like.
The administrators and deans you choose. Students can be grouped by grade, homeroom or another roster field and assigned to the dean who handles them, and district administrators can see each of their schools.
No. LockedIn never collects texts, calls, photos, browsing or social media. It checks whether a phone is on campus and whether it’s locked, during school hours only.
Your roster syncs from Clever, Veracross, Blackbaud or OneRoster, or uploads as a CSV, so students and their grade or homeroom come from the system you already keep.
Give each school its own campus boundary and schedule; district administrators can see each of their schools. Each dashboard shows who is locked in and why a student needs attention, without reading messages, photos or browsing history.
Further reading
- How to monitor phone use during school hoursThe playbook: dashboards, reports, and the line between compliance and surveillance.
- Phone pouch vs. software cost calculatorEstimate five-year costs for your enrollment.
- FERPA and COPPA vendor questionsYour legal team’s checklist before you sign.
- The superintendent’s guide to a phone-free districtBoard reporting and accountability across a district.
- Phone-free school laws by stateWhat your state requires during the school day, with links to the statute or order.
- California’s phone-free school law (AB 3216)What the Phone-Free School Act asks of districts, with a link to the bill.
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