Apple in the classroom

What’s new in Classroom

Learn about the latest updates to Classroom for iPad and Classroom for Mac.

Classroom turns your iPad or Mac into a powerful teaching assistant, helping a teacher guide students with iPads through a lesson, see their progress, and keep them on track. With Classroom, you can easily launch the same app on every student device at the same time, or launch a different app for each group of students. Classroom helps teachers focus on teaching so students can focus on learning.

What’s new in Classroom 3.5 for iPad and Classroom 2.5 for Mac

• This update contains bug fixes and performance improvements.

To use Classroom in macOS Monterey, Classroom 2.5 is required.

Earlier versions

Learn what’s new in earlier versions of Classroom for Mac and Classroom for iPad.

What’s new in Classroom 2.4.1 for Mac

Join Classroom sessions remotely over the Internet or nearby via Bluetooth proximity

• Students are notified with a ringtone and banner when there is a request to connect to a remote Classroom session
• Enhanced controls allow students to disconnect from a remote Classroom session and set a time to auto-disconnect once their device is asleep
• Classroom sessions can simultaneously support a mix of nearby and remote students

Improved group management and controls

• Use the sidebar navigation to easily create, manage, and edit groups in fewer taps
• Use smart groups to quickly view students based on proximity or remote connections and foregrounded app
• Manage students’ devices based on device status including device type, online or offline, and low battery

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Deployment Guide

for iPad and Mac in education

Define your project’s scope

iPad and Mac in education scale from shared devices in individual classrooms to district-wide one-to-one. Define the scope of your deployment and set a timeline for milestones as you progress through implementation to full utilization.

Prepare your environment

Sign up for Apple School Manager. Connect to Microsoft Azure Active Directory so every student and staff member can access Apple services. Connect your Student Information System (SIS) to import class rosters. Select and link a mobile device management (MDM) solution to Apple School Manager.

Enable your teams

Engage with Apple Professional Services to develop best practices for device deployment and management, leverage Apple Teacher Learning Center and Apple Professional Learning to enable your teaching staff to innovate in the classroom. Engage your curriculum team to select apps and books that support your learning objectives and outcomes, and create and test your deployment plan.

Deploy devices and content

Configure devices with settings, restrictions and content. Roll out devices to classrooms, students, and teachers. Setup content caching to make the most effective use of Wi-Fi and internet bandwidth. Implement Apple TV to support dynamic and interactive classrooms. Manage devices with Apple School Manager and MDM.

Provide teaching and learning tools

Save instructional time with Classroom and Schoolwork apps. Provide teachers with insight into student progress to support individualized instruction. Help teachers bring coding and core creative skills to every subject with Everyone Can Code and Everyone Can Create curricula. Run summative and formative assessments.

To explore the Education Deployment Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page, or enter a word or phrase in the search field.

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Apps that help you put the power of technology to work. In and out of class.

We’ve developed tools to help you guide how your students use devices and apps in the classroom, and give you valuable insight into each student’s progress as they work with them. So you can focus on what’s most important: teaching.

Schoolwork

A home base for you and your students.

The best way to learn is by doing and making. The Schoolwork app helps you and your students more effectively use the creative power of iPad. You can easily distribute and collect assignments, keep an eye on student progress in educational apps, and collaborate one on one with students from anywhere, in real time. It’s easy for students to use, too. Assignments automatically appear on their iPad, organized by due date and class. And Schoolwork helps you keep track of how everyone in class is doing — so you can tailor your teaching to the needs of each of your students.

• Easily share content with students
• Leverage the power of apps
• View students’ progress across all their work
• Tailor instruction to student needs
• Collaborate and provide instant feedback

Easily send out anything from announcements to assignments with Schoolwork.

Assignments are easy to create and send as an email, and flexible enough to contain almost anything: web links, PDFs, documents, and even links to activities in apps. You can use them for announcements, reminders, or assignments. And your students can view assignments across all their classes to keep track of everything they need to complete.

Create an assignment for an entire class or an individual student. Enter the recipient, date, description, and activity, and choose the optional request for return if you want the student to hand something in.

Set up sharing options for each activity. For group assignments, the whole class can collaborate on the same file. For documents where you’d like to collaborate one on one, Schoolwork can assign an individual file for each student.

Once your assignment is ready, just tap the arrow to send.

Tap into the power of educational apps.

Some of the most useful educational materials are found within apps. But students, especially younger ones, often have a hard time finding those materials. Schoolwork makes it as easy as possible to direct students to the right place in the right app. First you can browse popular apps like Tynker, GeoGebra 3D Calculator, and Kahoot! To find content that fits your curriculum. Then you can select a specific app activity to share with students on an assignment. When students get the assignment with the activity you’ve chosen, they can go right to the activity with a single tap. It’s all made possible by the developer framework called ClassKit. Many of the top educational apps are using ClassKit, with even more on the way.

• GeoGebra 3D Calculator
• Kahoot!
• Journeys of Invention
• IXL
• Molecules by Theodore Gray
• Nearpod
• Incredible Numbers
• Lexia
  Reading
• GeoGebra Graphing Calculator
• Quizlet
  Flashcards
• Tynker: Coding for Kids
• Explain Everything Basics
• Hopscotch
• Puppet Pals 2 (School Edition)
• TinyTap

Tap to add an app activity, and you’ll get a list of all your available apps, highlighting those that support student progress.

Once you tap a supported app, you can browse a list of activities and view more detail on each.

Tap the activity that you’d like to assign.

Tap to add the selected app activity to your assignment. It’s that easy.

Know how every student is doing at a glance.

Schoolwork and the apps built to support it provide insight that’s never been possible before. When your school enables the student progress feature, you’ll get a snapshot of each student’s overall class performance, be able to check on students’ app activities, and see how far they’ve gotten on assignments. It allows you to tailor your teaching to each of your students — whether they need an extra challenge or extra help. And because Apple cares deeply about privacy, this information is just between you and your students. We don’t look at it or use the information. Ever.

See how all your students are doing across assignments you’ve created and shared.

Tap into an individual activity to get a more detailed view of how each student is progressing.

Check in on students’ work to see how they’re doing across all of their assignments and tailor your teaching to each student’s needs. You can even return work to a student and ask to try again.

Work in real time together, even when you’re not together.

When you use Pages, Numbers, or Keynote in Schoolwork, it takes just a few taps to collaborate with your students on their assignments and add written or verbal feedback directly to their documents — at any time, from anywhere. You can even use Apple Pencil on iPad to mark up Pages documents as easily as you do on paper.

Once IT gets you set up, you’re all set.

Schoolwork will be set up for you by your IT department using Apple School Manager. They’ll take care of keeping your class lists up to date as students move in and out of your class. If enabled by your IT department in Apple School Manager, you can also create and manage your own classes.

Classroom

Keep your class fun and engaged. And focused.

The Classroom app turns your iPad and Mac into a powerful teaching assistant. It puts you in the driver’s seat of every iPad and Mac for instruction in the classroom and remotely, so you can guide students through lessons and keep them focused on the task at hand. Classroom also makes it easy to share information — send and receive files with the entire class and individual students using AirDrop, or show student work on the big screen.

Make sure everyone is on task. And on the right screen.

View any student’s screen on your iPad or Mac. Classroom allows you to see every student’s screen at the same time and navigate individual students or the entire class to a web page, book, or app. You can also lock students into a single iPad app or mute audio on student devices, so students stay focused.

Support learning at any distance. Connect remotely with your students.

Whether you’re in the classroom together with your students, learning from home, or a combination of both, Classroom will work at any distance. For your students, connecting to Classroom is as easy as answering a phone call. When connected, navigate your students to specific apps, view their screens, and see a summary of their engagement at the end of class.

Use the smart groups in the sidebar navigation to easily connect to and support students who are learning remotely.

For students, remotely connecting to Classroom is as easy as answering a phone call. Just tap to accept and join the session.

Students can navigate to Settings to join classes and disconnect from them, set teacher permissions, and select ringtones.

Teachers love the Classroom app

Show student work on the big screen.

See what students are working on.

Save time and focus on teaching.

Even if students share an iPad, they can make it their own.

Shared iPad is a feature for schools that share devices and still want to provide personalized experiences. Before class begins, you can assign any iPad to any student in your classroom. Students know which devices to use because their pictures are on the Lock screens. And they can access their personal content with a password or an easy-to-remember four-digit PIN. After students log in, their homework, apps, and assignments appear exactly as they left them.

Privacy is built into everything we make.

Teachers see all of the wonderful things created by their students. We don’t. All Apple products are built with an integrated approach to privacy and security — providing schools with devices, apps, and services that keep student work and personal information secure. And with Managed Apple IDs, the school controls student information and can choose to enable or disable apps and services such as iMessage, FaceTime, or student progress reporting with the Schoolwork app.

Apple maintains certifications in compliance with the ISO standards over key in-scope systems supporting Apple’s Education offerings. We also meet the requirements of the new EU GDPR framework. In addition, Apple has signed the Student Privacy Pledge, further underscoring our commitment to protecting the information of students, parents, and teachers shared in our schools.

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What’s new in Classroom

Learn about the latest updates to Classroom for iPad and Classroom for Mac.

Classroom turns your iPad or Mac into a powerful teaching assistant, helping a teacher guide students with iPads through a lesson, see their progress, and keep them on track. With Classroom, you can easily launch the same app on every student device at the same time, or launch a different app for each group of students. Classroom helps teachers focus on teaching so students can focus on learning.

What’s new in Classroom 3.5 for iPad and Classroom 2.5 for Mac

• This update contains bug fixes and performance improvements.

To use Classroom in macOS Monterey, Classroom 2.5 is required.

Earlier versions

Learn what’s new in earlier versions of Classroom for Mac and Classroom for iPad.

What’s new in Classroom 2.4.1 for Mac

Join Classroom sessions remotely over the Internet or nearby via Bluetooth proximity

• Students are notified with a ringtone and banner when there is a request to connect to a remote Classroom session
• Enhanced controls allow students to disconnect from a remote Classroom session and set a time to auto-disconnect once their device is asleep
• Classroom sessions can simultaneously support a mix of nearby and remote students

Improved group management and controls

• Use the sidebar navigation to easily create, manage, and edit groups in fewer taps
• Use smart groups to quickly view students based on proximity or remote connections and foregrounded app
• Manage students’ devices based on device status including device type, online or offline, and low battery

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