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  Get visual alerts in the leave approval process where REACH believes there may be a suspicious parent approval. IP address alerts will help you to monitor and identify instances where students may be approving their own leave by impersonating their parents or guardians. |
IP Address alerts for suspicious approvals
During the approval procedure for leave requests one of the many things that REACH monitors and records in your audit log is the IP address of all participants. The IP address is the digital location of the user when they transact on REACH.
We can use this IP address to help us identify any suspicious approvals that are being processed for students which fall into the following categories;
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1. When the Approving Parent or Host IP address is the same as the Student IP Address
When a leave request is created by a student and the Parent or Guardian's approving IP address matches the leave creation IP address of the student. This will indicate instances where it is possible that a student is attempting to approve leave as the parent.
2. When the Approving Parent IP address is on the School Network
When a Parent or Guardian's approving IP address matches the school's IP address. This will indicate instances where it is possible that a student is attempting to approval leave as the parent from the school's identified network.
When we identify leave request that fit these profiles we mark them as potentially suspicious on your Manage Leave screen with an IP Alert icon.
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Assessing the details of an IP Alert
Clicking on any leave item that contains an IP Alert icon in the Manage Leave screen will open up the details view of the leave request.
Here you can identify what the trigger for the IP Alert was and in the Leave Audit Trail you will be able to identify the approval transaction that triggered the IP Alert.
.How to set your School IP credentials for IP Alert tracking
In order for REACH to monitor your school's IP network for suspicious approvals we need to know what your network addresses are.
Setting these credentials requires access to the System Configuration menu in REACH.
Go to System Configuration > Network > School External IP Ranges
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