Apple Classroom
Do you have students that look off task during independent time? Do you wish that you had a way to spy on them while still meeting with your small group? What if you had an app that could lock them into a certain app, from across the room? What if that same app could send files to groups or your whole class remotely with the touch of one button? That app is Apple Classroom!
This is an amazing app that can help you monitor and manage your classroom from anywhere in your room. Karen Burr sent out an email last week showing what you need to do to set up Apple Classroom for your class. There is a component on the School District of Waukesha’s Intranet website and an app on Self Service that you need to download on your iPad. Here is a link to Karen’s document of Apple Classroom Setup instructions.
Now that you are set up what can you do with Apple Classroom? Here is a list of things that we know of so far. There may be more, but we have not explored everything yet.
- View the screen of each student’s iPad while they are working by class, by student, or by group from anywhere in the classroom
- Push an application to launch on your student’s iPads and lock them into that application
- Put a website in your bookmarks, then open that website on all iPads in your classroom
- Lock iPads so that students can not use them - get a black screen
- Air Drop files to your whole class, small groups, or individual students at the push of a button
Christine Glatczak and Karen Burr
