Set up Parental Controls

This article is for IT Support at schools using Linewize Community.

You can use Community’s Parental Controls to allow parents and guardians to apply rules to their children’s school-managed Chromebook or Windows devices outside of school hours using the Qustodio App. When configured, parents and guardians can layer their filtering and screen-time management rules on top of your school policies outside of the school hours defined by your School Manager calendar. Parental Controls will switch off during school-time.

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If you are making Parental Controls available to parents who have previously signed up to Qustodio, they will need to accept the ability to apply rules on school devices once it is available by signing into their Qustodio account and selecting set rules > apply rules on school devices.

With Rules available, parents and guardians can:

Filter the web Block web categories and specific websites, and receive alerts when their child attempts to access certain websites (available on Windows & Chromebook).
Set daily time limits Set a daily limit for how much time their child can spend on their school-managed device outside of school hours (available for Windows & Chromebook browser activity).
Manage games and apps Block or set time limits for apps (available for Windows only).
Create routines Schedule regular times during which a certain set of rules apply (available for Windows & Chromebook browser activity).

If parents and guardians turn off Apply rules on school devices, they can only access the other Community features you’ve turned on, such as Pause Internet.

Before you begin 

Turn on Parental Controls

Warning

When Parental Controls is on, Community automatically shares all activity outside of school hours with parents and guardians. The Type of Activity to Share options apply only to activities during school hours.

  1. Ensure Community on Windows or Chromebooks has been deployed to participating devices.
  2. Go to School Manager > Community > Configure Community.
  3. Go to Configure options for parents to manage school devices outside school hours section.
  4. Select the Parental Controls checkbox.
  5. Choose to use your Current School Policies or Safety Net.
  6. Use the Outside School Hours Activity dropdown to select one of the following usage types to report back into School Manager when a student device is under parental control.
    • All usage: Reports all student device usage while under the parent’s control
    • Blocked activity only: Reports only on activities blocked during the guardian's control.
    • No usage
  7. (Optional) Select Manage Exclusions to exclude a student or group from Parental Controls.
  8. Select Save.

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