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.
I know what you’re facing. I have similar issues with my children. I’ve skimmed and read through most of the responses you’ve received here. My input on this issue is that my children were issued Chromebooks that are managed by an mdm and which send everything through a VPN which prevents any kind of monitoring, blocking, or filtering at home or any other network they connect through. The only solutions available to me is to constant over the shoulder surveillance or MAC blocking, but there are several neighbors who have a strong enough wifi signal that my son can and will switch to one of them (the ones he knows the password to or using the open guest access). Physically locking up the laptops when homework is done and at night is what I have ended up doing.