{"id":3368,"date":"2018-04-27T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T22:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portal.beaconhills.vic.edu.au\/belearning-old\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2018-04-27T08:30:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T22:30:36","slug":"do-you-know-which-apps-are-installed-on-your-childs-ipad-and-should-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portal.beaconhills.vic.edu.au\/belearning\/do-you-know-which-apps-are-installed-on-your-childs-ipad-and-should-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you know which apps are installed on your child\u2019s iPad, and should you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents are correct to be interested in the apps that are installed on their child\u2019s iPad. If left unsupervised, children can install a variety of apps that range from educational to social media to games, but are they suitable for your child?<\/p>\n<p>How can you keep an eye on this?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Can I restrict what my child can do on the iPad?<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are features on the iPad that allow parents to place restrictions on what the child can do, including installing apps. Parents can also apply Family-Sharing so that app purchases, and other functions, have to be approved.<br \/>\nSee <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.beaconhills.vic.edu.au\/belearning\/usage-agreement\/\">Parental Controls on iPads<\/a> in our BeLearning Lounge for more details.<br \/>\nHowever, we ask that restrictions are not placed on Internet access or mail, as these are required in class and sufficiently controlled at school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Does the app have a rating that is suitable for the child\u2019s age?<\/strong><br \/>\nAll apps have a rating assigned to them and these can be viewed in the App Store; the apps installed for school are now all rated 4+.<br \/>\nParents should be aware of the rating when a child asks to install a new app. Many social media and game apps are rated 13+, some game apps are 18+.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Can my child hide apps from me?<br \/>\n<\/strong>There are apps called Vault Apps that look and operate like a normal app, such as a calculator, but when used with the correct passcode, while open to show various hidden content. <a href=\"https:\/\/useboomerang.com\/2016\/09\/13\/vault-apps-2\/\">See here for more details and examples<\/a>.<br \/>\nAlternatively your child could install a jailbreak app, that bypasses all restrictions and limitations placed on the iPad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The best approach is to sit down with your child and be interested in what they do with their iPad.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Torsello<br \/>\nCollege eLearning Coordinator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents are correct to be interested in the apps that are installed on their child\u2019s iPad. If left unsupervised, children can install a variety of apps that range from educational to social media to games, but are they suitable for your child? How can you keep an eye on this? Can I restrict what my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.beaconhills.vic.edu.au\/belearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.beaconhills.vic.edu.au\/belearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.beaconhills.vic.edu.au\/belearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.beaconhills.vic.edu.au\/belearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.beaconhills.vic.edu.au\/belearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/portal.beaconhills.vic.edu.au\/belearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.beaconhills.vic.edu.au\/belearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.beaconhills.vic.edu.au\/belearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.beaconhills.vic.edu.au\/belearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}