So my 12 year old son is starting to get a little too comfortable with his new freedom of a school computer and a desk in his room. I do not believe he is doing anything he shouldnt be doing but being in the IT field, I am just cautious when he disapears into his room. Plus my wife and I want to make sure he is actually studying when he says he is. I am curious to see if anyone has any suggestions to see if there is a product we can put on our home network to see where he is going. Its a school computer so I don’t have any way to install anything on it. We have an ASUS router powering the network.
When you say school computer, do you mean a computer they use for school (bought by you)? or a computer bought by the school and given to your kid?
It would be hard to know what all they have on it if the school purchased it. I do IT and have spent many hours just trying to get around the software I put on the employees PCs, to see if its possible. It usually takes a bit of knowledge about the individual softwares, and there’s no telling which one they use.
Assuming the school bought it, I would go for a dns based solution, block the content from outside of the laptop. That also makes it much harder for someone to get around IMO (but thats debatable, and depends on what you know)