Manage guest access to your network using School Manager

Guest users in School Manager

You can use School Manager to give guests temporary access to your school’s network. Guests can enter the token you provide to authenticate to your Captive Portal for a set period of time from their account creation or first login. You can create users individually or in bulk groups of up to 100 at a time. Guest access is limited by the lifetime and expiry type set when you create the guest, and you can also remove access anytime for one or more guest users. Guests are subject to all School Manager Content Filtering policies that don’t apply to a specific user or group.

Before You Start

Your school must have enabled a Captive Portal that users must interact with before accessing your school’s network.

Adding a Guest user

1. Sign into School Manager.
2. Go to Configuration > Users and Groups > Guests.
3. Select Add Guest.
4. Enter the user’s First and Last Name.
5. Select either Expire after First Login or Expire after Account Creation.
   • Expire after First Login - the timer begins as soon as the guest logs in for the first time.
   • Expire after Account Creation - the time begins as soon as the guest user is created.
6. Select a Lifetime between 1 Hour and 6 Months.
   The Lifetime sets how long the guest token is valid, i.e. when the user token expires.
7. Select Add.

Adding Multiple Guest users

1. Sign into School Manager.
2. Go to Configuration > Users and Groups > Guests.
3. Select Add Multiple Guests.
4. Enter the number of guests accounts to be added between 1 and 100.
5. Select either Expire after First Login or Expire after Account Creation.
6. Select a Lifetime between 1 Hour and 6 Months.
7. Select Add.

Search for a Guest user

1. Go to Configuration > Users and Groups > Guests.
2. Enter a Token or Name in the Search box to search or filter the list.

Select a column heading to sort the list in either ascending or descending order:

• Token the code a guest uses to log on to the network
• Name the name of the guest (blank for guests that were added as multiple guests)
• Expiry indicates how long the token is active
• State indicates if the token is active or inactive (expired)

Export Guest users’ details

Select Export to download a guest list as a .csv file. The export includes the Guest Token, Name, Expiry and State.

Printing Guest user details

You can generate a simple printout of a guest user’s login details, including their token and the duration of their access.

1. Go to Configuration > Users and Groups > Guests.
2. Search for or locate the user.
3. Select Print to print specific guest user details.

Deleting a Guest user

1. Sign into School Manager.
2. Go to Configuration > Users and Groups > Guests.
3. Select Delete (trash can) icon from the Operations column.
4. Select Delete at the confirmation.

How do Guest users log in?

If your school has set up a Captive Portal page, guest users may be automatically taken to the login page. Otherwise, they should go to http://login.linewize.net (http not https).

1. Select Login to Network.
2. Select Login as a Guest.
3. Enter the Guest Token, then select Logon To Our Network.
4. After you log in, you can visit your My Dashboard page or browse to your desired websites.