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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.

Apple School Manager

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• Mac App Store is the simplest way to find and download apps for your Mac. To download apps from the Mac App Store, you need a Mac with OS X 10.6.6 or later.

Manage your institution's devices, apps, and accounts.

Deployment overview

These guides introduce you to the basic concepts for setting up, creating, and deploying devices or computers for new and existing networks.

• Education Deployment Guide

  An overview for technology managers and technical administrators.

• Apple School Manager Help

  Apple School Manager offers help on device enrollment, purchasing content and creating accounts.

• Getting started with Classroom

  A teacher's guide to the Classroom app for iPad.

• macOS Deployment Reference

  Learn about new ways to deploy your Apple devices using Apple School Manager.

• iOS Deployment Reference

  This reference guide is for IT administrators who want to deploy and manage iOS devices in large-scale organizations.

iTunes U

iTunes U provides everything an instructor needs to bring the classroom together on iPad.

• Learn more about iTunes U

  iTunes U provides what an instructor needs to bring the classroom together on iPad and more.

• Publish your content on iTunes U

  Create and manage your content on iTunes U.

• Use a Managed Apple ID with iTunes U

  Understand the differences between using a personal Apple ID and a Managed Apple ID with iTunes U.

• Add a personal Apple ID to a managed iTunes U course

  Use your personal Apple ID as a contributor to manage your iTunes U courses in Apple School Manager.

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Manage devices overview

Apple School Manager provides a fast, streamlined way to deploy and manage iOS and OS X devices in your organization.

Use Device Enrollment

Device Enrollment lets you automate Mobile Device Management (MDM) enrollment and simplify initial device setup. You can supervise devices during activation without touching them, and lock MDM enrollment for ongoing management.

Find Apple Customer Numbers, Reseller IDs, and Organization IDs

Learn how to find your number or ID and when to use it with Apple Business Manager or with Apple School Manager.

Use MDM to manage Activation Lock and Lost Mode

Learn how to manage Find My iPhone Activation Lock and Lost Mode on supervised devices with Mobile Device Management (MDM).

This article is intended for system administrators at businesses and educational institutions.

Volume Purchase Store for Education

The Volume Purchase Program allows educational institutions to purchase apps and books in volume and distribute them to students, teachers, administrators, and other employees.

Distribute content with Apps and Books in Apple School Manager and Apple Business Manager

Learn to deploy apps and books purchased in the Apps and Books section in Apple School Manager and Apple Business Manager.

Availability of Apple programs and payment methods for education and business

Find out which Apple programs and payment methods for education and business are available in your country or region.

Get Apple apps through the Volume Purchase Program

Learn how your institution can get Pages, Numbers, Keynote, GarageBand, and iMovie apps for managed distribution.

About Managed Apple IDs for education

Learn how to use the Managed Apple ID that your educational institution assigns to you.

Reset Passcodes

When a user forgets their passcode, you can reset it with Apple School Manager.

Mac Apple Store Apps

Connect your Student Information System to Apple School Manager

Learn which Student Information Systems (SIS) Apple School Manager supports and how to connect your SIS to import your data.

Use SFTP to upload student, staff, and class data to Apple School Manager

If your student information system (SIS) isn’t currently supported by Apple School Manager, or you don’t have a student information system, you can upload student, staff, and class data to Apple School Manager using SFTP.

macOS Server

macOS Server makes it easy to share files, schedule meetings, synchronize contacts, develop software, host your own website, publish wikis, configure Mac, iPhone, and iPad devices, remotely access your network, and more.

Apple Classroom App

Apple Configurator

Apple Configurator integrates with the Device Enrollment Program to automate MDM enrollment as well as the Volume Purchase Program to seamlessly distribute apps from the App Store.

Remote Desktop

Apple Remote Desktop is the best way to manage the Mac computers on your network. Distribute software, provide real-time online help to end users, create detailed software and hardware reports, and more.

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