iCloud File Sharing

[Darksoth]

Afternoon everyone!

Our Music department are looking to set up file sharing within iCloud between students & staff but this option appears to be non-existent. They have tried sharing via link but only receive a 'Shared files/photos not available'. I have ensured that sharing within the organisation is enabled in Apple School Manager but this doesn't make a difference.

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

[Brimstone]

What content are you looking to share?

What devices are you using to share between?

Is this is for Garageband tracks?

[Darksoth]

Hi Brimstone,

They are looking to share GarageBand tracks but also some Sibelius files & some media files as well. This is mainly from iMacs running Ventura but also from iPads (iPadOS 16.5.1). They've also tried to share files stored in iCloud via the web interface through a browser on a windows laptop without much success.

[Brimstone]

Both users or devices need to have a Managed Apple I.D.?

[Darksoth]

Yeah, both users signed in with Apple IDs managed by ASM & devices all managed via Mosyle...

[Brimstone]

Look here...

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/garageband/gbnd4d2baaf3/mac

[Darksoth]

Hi Brimstone,

Thanks for that. I'll pass that on to my Music team, I'm sure they'll find it useful. I think their ultimate goal though is for students to share their files with the teacher over iCloud in a similar way to how they would using OneDrive for example. This is where things seem to fall down...

Thanks again for spending the time to try & help me out!

[Brimstone]

Send this video to your teacher as well...

 

[Darksoth]

Thanks for that, I'll pass it along. I don't suppose you have any suggestions about sharing other file types via iCloud?

[Brimstone]

Is this file sharing only or users being able to collaborate on the same file together...?

[Darksoth]

My understanding is mostly file sharing only, to mark work etc but collaboration would likely be helpful.

[NeoNebula]

I wonder who would love to share their music files in this case? I think with all this publicity, students want to have some privacy. Well, I wouldn't jump on board if my school or college would try to implement something like this.