Mobicip can be just as effective for large deployments in schools, groups or enterprise settings. Follow these simple steps to setup a large number of devices protected using a single Mobicip.com account. A school may have multiple Mobicip.com accounts, perhaps one per classroom or age-level, in which case you will follow these steps for each account.
Assumptions
- Your Mobicip.com account has been created already (if unsure, please contact the administrator of your iPod / iPad program).
- The iPods in a classroom are sync'ed with a Mac (laptop / desktop) in the classroom.
- The Mac and iPods/iPads share the same wireless network.
- The iPods / iPads are setup with unique device names, and you can identify each device / individual user by this device name.
Step 1. Setup User Profile(s)
Create one or more user profiles, one for each group of devices that will share the same filtering settings. For instance, you may want to setup a profile for each classroom, team or sub-group within a classroom.
Login at www.mobicip.com and select Settings > Users.
Edit the default user profile in your account.
Enter the new name and filtering level.
Click Ok to save the settings.
Click Add Another User to setup additional user profiles with appropriate names, for instance, High School.
Step 2. Download & Install Mobicip Safe Browser from App Store.
Launch iTunes on the Mac and search for the Mobicip Safe Browser app.
Using your iTunes account, download the app into the iTunes library.
Sync the devices with the iTunes library to install the Safe Browser on each device.
Step 3. Setup Mobicip's Deployment Server on Mac.
Follow this link to download Mobicip's deployment server software (beta). Once downloaded, unzip and launch the application and you will see a login screen as below.
Enter the Mobicip.com account username and password. Click Authenticate.
Select the user profile you wish to apply to this deployment server. Please see this tutorial for more information on setting up your Mobicip.com account for a classroom deployment.
Enter a name for the deployment server. Use a unique name that will identify this server from a list of such servers running on other Macs in your school.
Click Start to launch the server. If successful, you should see the Start button change into a Stop button as below.
Step 4. Launch Mobicip on iPods / iPads
On each iPod / iPad, look for the Mobicip icon and launch the Safe Browser app.
The app should connect with the deployment server, and you should see the deployment server displayed briefly on the screen. If there is only one deployment server running, this screen will disappear and the browser will open to the Mobicip home screen (on iPod Touch) or to a blank screen (on iPad).
If the app discovers multiple deployment servers, it will show you a list of deployment servers to select from. Select your deployment server, this screen will disappear and the browser will open to the Mobicip home screen (on iPod Touch) or to a blank screen (on iPad).
Once Step 4 has been completed on all the iPods / iPads, you can stop the deployment server on the Mac. Simply open the Mobicip Deployment Server and click Stop, and quit this application.
Hurray! Your setup is now complete.
Access Activity Reports By User Profile
Once setup correctly, you should be able to view the activity report for each user profile. Login at www.mobicip.com and access Reports.
Select the user profile you want to review.
Sort Activity Reports by Individual User
To see the specific report for an individual user, scroll down the reports page to the table. Here you can see the report for all users that use the profile. Sort the table by the "Device" title to see the reports for individual users.
We hope this tutorial was useful. Please let us know what additional tutorials will be helpful and we will be happy to create those as well.
