WHAT’S FRCS LIKE?
Come and experience a day in the life of Marcia, a 1st grade student at Front Range Christian School. Click the photo above or visit the “Day in the Life of” page of the admissions section.
WHAT’S FRCS LIKE?
Come and experience a day in the life of Marcia, a 1st grade student at Front Range Christian School. Click the photo above or visit the “Day in the Life of” page of the admissions section.
Following is information for parents to secure their student’s iPad, to ensure that unwanted apps or content is blocked or restricted.
The first time you enable restrictions you will need to enter a 4-digit code that only you know. It will ask you to type it in twice to verify that you typed it correctly. You then turn on Restrictions to specifically prevent changes to your app settings, such as being able to turn Find My iPhone on or off (tap Settings > General > Restrictions>Allow Changes:>Accounts> choose Don’t Allow Changes).
Other settings you need to check are ratings for Music and Podcasts, Movies, TV Shows, Apps, In-App Purchases and Game Center restrictions. If you are trying to restrict the purchasing of a browser, you can set your restrictions to under 17 years of age (select 12+), that will catch 99% of the browsers as non-safe browsers are rated for 17+ years of age since they can access adult content. If you are concerned students will attempt to get another non-safe browser, you will want to restrict the purchasing of apps altogether so that no apps will be purchased with out your permission. Otherwise, you can allow them to purchase apps and keep an eye on their iPad. You can take away a student’s ability to delete apps in the Restrictions settings, so if they do somehow manage to download something inappropriate they will not be able to remove it so that you won’t know.
Lightspeed Mobile Filter App is the preferred browser to ensure that Internet content is blocked on your student’s iPad and will log any suspicious activity, even when the student is not at school. On your iPad, sign on to a school network (please see Jr/Sr High Staff for the network name and password), then go to the App Store app on your iPad and search for the Lightspeed Mobile Filter app. It’s free and can be downloaded with your Apple ID.
Once downloaded, while still on a school network, tap the Lightspeed app. It will ask you for your school id. Enter 60717998. Then you will be taken to the next screen where you will be asked to authenticate. To “authenticate,” enter the student’s login credentials, i.e., username and password. Their username should be their first initial and their last name (e.g., jsmith for Joe Smith). The only exceptions are those students who have a sibling or staff member with the same first initial and last name, in which case their name will have a 1,2 or 3 after it (exa. jsmith and jsmith1).
The students are in charge of making their own passwords, so they will make a password at school if they haven’t already. Students are required to keep track of this username and password and are required to change it every 60 days for security purposes. The password is also used for students to log into My Big Campus.
To set up the Lightspeed browser/app, therefore, your student will either need to be with you to authenticate themselves, or you will need to know their username and password.
Once the browser/app are authenticated, your student can access the Internet through this app. The Lightspeed server will then block inappropriate content and log any suspicious activity, even when students are not on campus.
Please be aware that several apps can access the internet apart from the Lightspeed Browser, and we are unable to track internet usage through those apps. Please be diligent in checking your student’s iPad for apps and inappropriate content accessed through those.
If you have any questions about setting up restrictions or downloading and enabling Lightspeed, please contact Gayle Kakac at gkakac@frcs.org.
