[Lightspeed] - Apple Classroom won't enable at home level

[Planehazza]

Hi all,

 

Me again. Got my iPad enrolment working nicely, albeit slowly until I get a decent USB hub. I'm trying now to get Apple classroom working via managed MDM (I'm bored at home and have the option of overtime so why not), but am struggling to enable the functionality.

 

I'm working through this LSM guide and am struggling to see any steps I've missed or not done correctly: https://help.lightspeedsystems.com/s/article/device-management-apple-classroom

 

However, as per my screenshot, I cannot click save to commit the tickbox to enable it:

 

 

There is a message there that is always there for me, but does not appear in the LSM documentation: "Classroom is not able to be used in groups with more than 100 users." Obviously, with two high schools in Google Workspace that is synced to LSM, I will have multiple groups with 200+ cohorts.

 

Am I really to restructure my entire Google OUs to have less than 100 users per group? I thought at this level I was just enabling the Apple Classroom functionality before enabling the feature on a per group level (where obviously I would target class size groups).

 

Thanks!

Edited November 27, 2022 by Planehazza

[Brimstone]

Do you have classes of 100 x students…I very much doubt it. So why not put them into classes?

 

Lightspeed needs you to put devices into actual classes with a single teacher as the admin of each of the classes, this is known as a MDM configuration for Apple Classroom. You can, if you have your ASM synced with Google Workspace so all users have their own Managed Apple ID then teachers can create Classrooms in Apple Classroom in an ad hoc way.

[Planehazza]

That’s the plan…well to be more precise I’ll probably use generic accounts so the trolley iPads aren’t 1:1, as its primary and the kids just go and grab any device. Teacher devices will be 1:1 assigned to staff.

 

The problem is currently that the root functionality won’t enabl and I don’t think the amount of users in a group would break it at this level. Otherwise light speed would have documentation with big warning’s saying early on to not exceed 99 users in any group ever…

 

Currently I only have one test class in ASM with a teacher but no students. Does light speed simple cease working with classroom if there are no valid classes? Ie I can’t even enable it? Ifso that’s pretty stupid…

Edited November 28, 2022 by Planehazza