Apple iPad lock down settings in a school environment

[dloudon96]

Hello,

 

I've been working in a school for year and a half, we have over 350 iPads that students use on a regular basis...

 

I'll get to the point; we are currently using Apple Configurator to install apps and set profiles ect that's working fine!

 

We have a profile called 'Meraki Management', on all the iPads in the school to keep track of them and if they go missing we can trace where they are at by using Meraki.

 

My problem is some kids have managed to remove the Meraki profile on some of the iPads, we know which ones as we get emails to say a profile has been removed on ... iPad and it has become unsupervised, i then have to get that iPad and put the profile back on again by re-registering it with Meraki.

 

My main question is, is there a way to restrict the settings on the iPads as students don't need to be on the setting at all, or if not is there a way to restrict the profiles that can be removed? I've looked online and other websites say that the Meraki profile cannot be password protected so I was just wondering what suggestions people on here had and how they manage their iPads?

 

Your comments would be a help!

 

Thanks

 

Dan

[xenonive]

If you are in the US you can Apple device enrolment program then it give you a profile that can't be removed . Currently it is in trial and not available on other countries, else profiles will always easy to remove

[SovietRussia]

You can set non restriction profiles to have a password but not the main Remote Management one, which is a pain! Meraki used to be able to keep track of which devices had profiles removed - might help you.

[dloudon96]

Hello,

 

Thanks for the responses guys!

 

I hope on Meraki Management that they bring a new feature out where you can disable the 'settings' option :/

 

Thanks again.

 

Dan