Set up Linewize Community at your school

Linewize Community allows your school to give parents and guardians insight into how their child uses their school device. You can also let parents and guardians manage their child’s school device outside of school hours.

1. Turn on Community in School Manager

Contact your Linewize Community representative to turn on Linewize Community at your school.

2. Set up your school Calendar in School Manager

Set up your School Calendar in School Manager before setting up Community features.

3. Set up Community features

Set up Parental Controls

Set up Parental Controls to allow parents and guardians to use the Qustodio app to apply rules to manage and filter a child’s school-managed Chromebook or Windows device outside school hours.

Set up Share Student Usage and Insights

Set up Student Usage and Insights to share information about student activity on school-managed devices with their parents or guardians. Parents and guardians will see an overview of their children’s usage data on school-managed devices for the current day or for a given period.

Set up Share Student Timeline

Set up Sharing student timeline to allow your school to provide parents and guardians with a timeline of their child’s usage on school-managed devices through Qustodio.

Set up Weekly Reports with Parents

Set up Community to send Qustodio account invites and weekly internet usage summaries to parents and guardians who haven't joined Community yet, encouraging involvement in monitoring their child's online activity and additional Community features.

Set up Pause Internet

Set up Pause Internet to allow guardians to pause internet access on a child’s school-managed device for a specific amount of time using the Qustodio app. You can configure this so that parents and guardians can "pause" outside school hours.

4. Test your Community Configuration

Test your Community configuration to ensure the Community features are working as intended.

5. Deploy Community to student devices

Deploy Community to your student devices:

• Windows Devices
• Chromebooks

6. Add your parent and guardian details

Check what parent and guardian details you need and sync or upload them into School Manager so that parents and guardians to use Community features. 

For security and privacy, schools can disconnect parents and guardians as needed.

7. Onboard your parents and guardians

Onboard your parents and guardians by sending them the Community Signup link. Then, speak with your Linewize Community representative to help you promote Community to them.