Has anyone found a good solution to students who enable their phone's mobile wifi hot spot and switch their iPad over to it thereby bypassing the school's web filter while at school?
Does that mean you don't have students doing this at your school? We weren't planning to filter offsite either. Onsite we use WatchGuard's WebBlocker. I'm not sure they support filtering offsite filtering, but I've contacted them in order to verify. If they don't, I'm considering contacting OpenDNS or Securly, but am open to suggestions.
It would be difficult to stop this on iOS as the users are admins by default. It's certainly a behavioural problem and would be worth tackling head on. I've tried using technical ways to solve these types of the problems in the past and the kids just see it as a challenge.
The only other thought is restricting allowed websites via a profile (requires the iPads to be supervised I think), that way it wouldn't matter which Internet connection they used.
Securly is a cloud-based system that is integrated with Google. The fact that it doesn't involve an additional appliance is attractive. Again, I haven't heard much about it, though. It's only a couple of years old.
