Dear District 103 Parents,

By now, I’m sure you have watched your child interact with their iPad as a learning device. The iPad provides access to a plethora of learning opportunities for our students. As parents ourselves, we also want to provide you with some options to help manage your child’s activity on their device.

District Issued (Rent) iPads

For all district-issued iPads, the parent control feature is called ScreenGuide. What is ScreenGuide? How does ScreenGuide work?

• To set up ScreenGuide, please follow THESE DIRECTIONS.

• This collection of 11 short (roughly 1-2 min each) YouTube videos, explains how to use the different device management features that parents have access to.

Our goal with this service is to:

1. Provide families with an iPad management option that is easy to use and easy to understand, and

2. Offer a management option that ensures secure features that meet or exceed industry standards.

***Disclaimer – If you use the “Hide Apps” feature, the apps do not maintain their folder organization when they are un-hidden. This means if your child has organized apps into folders on their iPad and you hide them, they will not return to the folders. ***

BYO (grandfathered-in) iPads

For any BYO iPads, Apple has a number of parental control features that are free to use. Restriction settings can be applied to an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Parents can:

• Set Content & Privacy Restrictions

• Prevent iTunes & App Store purchases

• Allow built-in apps and features

• Prevent explicit content and content ratings

• Prevent web content

• Restrict Siri web search

• Restrict Game Center

• Allow changes to privacy settings

• All changes to other settings and features

Please consider applying these parental control features as a way to help your child behave appropriately, while using their personal iPad.

For help with Apple’s parental control features, please contact Apple Support. For support with ScreenGuide, please contact one of the below:

• Daniel Wright Jr High School - DW_FamilyTechSupport@d103.org

• Half Day School - HD_FamilyTechSupport@d103.org

• Laura B. Sprague School - LS_FamilyTechSupport@d103.org

Have a wonderful spring break!

RJ Bialk

Director of Technology & Assessment

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