Apple Education Support Settings
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- Last UpdatedJan 23, 2024
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The Apple education support settings in Jamf Pro allow you to do the following:
- Enable support for Shared iPad and Apple's Classroom app—
You can allow computers and iPads to be added to classes in Jamf Pro for use with Apple's Classroom app. In addition, this setting allows iPads to be added to classes in Jamf Pro as Shared iPad for use with Apple's Classroom app.
- Enable user images—
When you enable user images, an image or student photo is displayed in the Classroom app and on the login screen for Shared iPads. The user image is also displayed in the inventory information for each user.
- Integrate with Apple School Manager—
Integrating Jamf Pro with Apple School Manager allows you to import students, teachers, and classes from Apple School Manager. This automatically creates new users and classes in Jamf Pro for use with Apple's Classroom app.
When you enable the Apple education support setting, Jamf Pro generates an EDU profile that is installed on an iPad or computer when the device is added to a class in Jamf Pro for use with Apple's Classroom app. The EDU profile configures the device with user and class information. For information about enabling Shared iPad during enrollment, see Automated Device Enrollment for Mobile Devices.
For more information about Shared iPad, see Shared iPad in Apple device deployments in Apple's Deployment Guide for Education.
Apple's Classroom app distributed to teacher iPads or computers in your environment. To distribute the Classroom app with Jamf Pro, see Apps Purchased in Volume.
For more information about using Classroom and Shared iPad, as well as infrastructure requirements, see What is Classroom? in Apple's Classroom User Guide.
When assigning a student or teacher to a computer in Jamf Pro, you must ensure that the username in Jamf Pro matches the username of the MDM-enabled user on the computer. For more information about enabling MDM for users, see MDM-Enabled Local User Accounts. In addition, see the Managing User Approved MDM with Jamf Pro article.
- In Jamf Pro, click Settings in the sidebar.
- In the Global section, click Apple education support .
- Click Edit .
- Select the Enable Apple education support checkbox.
- Click Save .
Jamf Pro generates an EDU Profile that is installed on devices when they are added to a class in Jamf Pro.
iPads that are enrolled with Jamf Pro using a PreStage enrollment that have Shared iPad enabled are enabled as Shared iPad for use with Apple's Classroom app when they are added to a class in Jamf Pro.