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[OFF Topic] wifi access for students phones or other devices

panderson — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:41:23 GMT

Just wondering what others do when it comes to students accessing the school's WIFI on their personal devices during the school day. Do you give students access to the WIFI during the school day or after hours for their phones and other devices? If you do allow them on the school WIFI during the day, do you limit the bandwidth of the user or the SSID? Do you keep track of the devices? Anything else that you can add would be appreciated.

Re: [OFF Topic] wifi access for students phones or other devices

Dean_Mantz — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:45:35 GMT

We do not allow the personal devices of our students on the network for security reasons.

Re: [OFF Topic] wifi access for students phones or other devices

ddelboccio — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:48:34 GMT

We also do not allow any non-school (student) devices on our wi-fi.

Re: [OFF Topic] wifi access for students phones or other devices

ekramer — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 20:07:27 GMT

We have BYOD high school students so allow personal devices.

Re: [OFF Topic] wifi access for students phones or other devices

npl — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:34:22 GMT

Out wifi is setup with 4 SSID's

1 - School Devices
2 - Staff Devices
3 - Student Devices ( pushed to managed devices )
4 - Guest Wifi

Students do get on the Guest Wifi, but as this is a filtered network they can not access social media etc plus the password is changes a few times a year.

Re: [OFF Topic] wifi access for students phones or other devices

kaned — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:46:03 GMT

Up until several years ago, we did not allow any personal devices on our school network for security reasons.

With The change to 5G, we found that there was a lot of personnel that did not have reception in classrooms. We then allow staff mobile phones on our Wi-Fi. This is done through user login credentials and multi-factor authentication.

We've discussed the idea of letting students be on a guest Network. Completely separated from anything on our Network, but found that there hasn't been a huge need at this point.

We can generate 24-hour access codes that we can hand out if needed, and find it for students that need internet access for projects like video recording, etc, that handing out some one-time access codes seems to work well.

Re: [OFF Topic] wifi access for students phones or other devices

clarkk — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:40:59 GMT

We have 2 networks:

1: WLAN for school owned devices that only tech has the password.

2: BYOD: open network on a separate vlan which allows internet access and is filter thru our firewall.

The WLAN is needed to print, use our wireless screen share, access servers, ect. the reason for the open network is that we use Ruvna for emergency management and accountability and cell service is sparse inside the buildings. The teachers also need to authenticate with their phones on the computers.

Re: [OFF Topic] wifi access for students phones or other devices

MattDPenn — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:45:26 GMT

We have a Guest wifi that's VLANed off but students aren't suppose to have their personal devices out at school. Even if they did connect to the Guest wifi it has similar filters applied to it as the Student wifi so they won't get any farther anyway.

Re: [OFF Topic] wifi access for students phones or other devices

MarkLoundy — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:11:13 GMT

Our student network password is buried in an MDM profile. Almost nobody knows the exact password. Students could access the guest network, but it’s very slow.

Re: [OFF Topic] wifi access for students phones or other devices

Kim_Nilsson — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 14:11:09 GMT

No personal devices on district network (students/staff).

There is a guest network.

Students are also more and more restricted in access to their personal devices during school hours.