One safe network for every school in your trust

Staff sign in with their school account, every device gets its own key, content filtering runs on every network and visitors stay on their own. One platform for primary and secondary schools, run on the access points you already own.

• Microsoft Entra ID and Google Workspace sign-in
• DNS content filtering with Safe Search
• xPSK for every device
• 99.9% RADIUS uptime SLA

A typical school today

• One staff WiFi password, taped inside the staffroom cupboard and unchanged for years
• Supply teachers and leavers who can still connect long after their last day
• Interactive panels, visualisers, printers and door controllers sharing one key
• Parents, governors and contractors asking at reception for the password

With Purple

• Staff sign in with their own school account, so there is no password to pass around
• Access ends the moment an account is disabled in Entra ID or Google Workspace
• Content filtering on every network, with each session logged against a named person and device
• Visitors get a branded welcome page on a network kept apart from teaching and admin

One login for email, Teams, Classroom and WiFi

Teachers, teaching assistants and office staff connect with the account they already use for email and lessons. Purple syncs with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta and JumpCloud over SCIM, and group membership decides whether someone lands on the staff, pupil or admin network.

• Leavers lose access automatically when their account is disabled
• Staff, pupils and the school office land on separate VLANs with their own rules
• School-owned laptops and iPads get EAP-TLS certificates through Intune or Jamf
• Staff phones and laptops are onboarded in about 60 seconds with the Purple app

Filtering your safeguarding lead can stand behind

Purple Shield filters at the DNS layer, so the same rules apply on pupil, staff and guest networks without new hardware or firewall changes. Because every connection belongs to a named person and device, your designated safeguarding lead can see who was online, where and when.

• Allow or block categories, apps and domains, with Safe Search on search engines
• Different rules for pupils, staff and visitors, with time schedules for the school day
• Malware and known phishing sites blocked, with threats identified up to 10 days before standard databases
• Blocked sites reported in the dashboard, with your own school-branded block page

Every session is logged against a named person, device, time and location, which helps you evidence the DfE filtering and monitoring standards for schools and colleges.

A private key for everything that cannot sign in

Interactive panels, visualisers, shared tablet trolleys, printers, door controllers and cameras cannot type a username and password. xPSK gives each one its own key and its own VLAN, so a key written on the back of a panel affects one device, not the whole school.

• Revoke a single key without re-keying every device in the building
• MAC binding ties each key to the first device that uses it
• Time-limited keys for supply staff and contractors, with no device management needed
• Works under your vendor's name: iPSK on Cisco, DPSK on Ruckus, MPSK on HPE Aruba and Juniper Mist, PPSK on Extreme and UniFi

Guest WiFi for parents' evenings, governors and lettings

Parents, governors, exam invigilators, peripatetic music teachers, contractors and the clubs that hire your sports hall in the evening all need to get online. Purple gives them a branded welcome page on a network kept entirely apart from teaching and admin.

• Branded captive portal with CCPA/CPRA consent and a full audit trail
• The same Shield filtering on the guest network as on pupil networks
• Each academy in the trust can carry its own name and colors on the welcome page
• Open evening sign-ups can flow to your existing systems through 400+ data connectors

Run every school's WiFi with the team you already have

School IT teams look after everything from the MIS to the hall projector, often across several sites. Purple takes network sign-in and filtering off their list, from one dashboard that covers every academy, so the WiFi stops generating tickets.

Figures from Purple platform data, service terms and the Purple Shield product page.

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Tell us about your school or trust and we will show you how staff, pupil, device and visitor access, with filtering, would work on your hardware.

• Works with Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet
• Single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace and Okta
• ISO 27001 certified, CCPA/CPRA compliant, US RADIUS region