iPads & MDMs (How are we doing it??)

[LeMarchand]

21 minutes ago, Planehazza said:

How are those using shared ipad finding it in schools, particularly primaries where there may not be enough devices for true 1:1? True 1:1 simply is impossible here; I've already had to get my boss to tell Finance and above that 150 of our 600 iPad fleet need to be removed from use being stuck at iOS12.5.7...

 

Using Mosyle free with 120 pads and, apart from having a lot of "bulk" operations locked from us, it's fine. I did try to push for paid but the school didn't even buy charges for the 60 received just before Easter...

[Planehazza]

The login process and enforced passcode is going to be a total ballache for primary students. I can't believe Apple haven't thought about this for kids that are 6 years old etc.

[LeMarchand]

12 minutes ago, Planehazza said:

The login process and enforced passcode is going to be a total ballache for primary students. I can't believe Apple haven't thought about this for kids that are 6 years old etc.

 

Mosyle (and Lightspeed) can be set so that you just unlock the pad. I assume this is something offered by other MDMs too.

[StephenPink]

3 hours ago, Planehazza said:

I'm back at this topic. We're moving away from Lightspeed and so have had to find a new MDM solution. We've elected to use Intune as we want to implement that for laptops anyway. With this opportunity, I'm testing shared ipads which still seems rather sucky and glitchy. Got it set up nicely yesterday, come to show my line manager proof of concept and it's all gone t**s up 😂

 

I seem to read a lot about using ASM to set passcode policies and device lock grace periods etc. but I cannot see any settings anywhere. I've got it federated against Google for now, but unsure whether this will be Entra or another third party (QR based etc) system in the future.

 

How are those using shared ipad finding it in schools, particularly primaries where there may not be enough devices for true 1:1? True 1:1 simply is impossible here; I've already had to get my boss to tell Finance and above that 150 of our 600 iPad fleet need to be removed from use being stuck at iOS12.5.7...

 

Yep Shared iPad still not good enough. 

For the Junior school, we have 120 "Student iPad" accounts - 1 for each iPad. So they are setup as 1:1, and then the teachers have a record of student name to iPad for filtering/other issues. Then there's no password/code issues either as the teachers know the Managed Apple ID password if required (federated to the Entra account) and these are also still unique per account. No passcode on the iPads, managed layout via Jamf School etc too. 

Cheers

[Planehazza]

3 minutes ago, StephenPink said:

 

Yep Shared iPad still not good enough. 

For the Junior school, we have 120 "Student iPad" accounts - 1 for each iPad. So they are setup as 1:1, and then the teachers have a record of student name to iPad for filtering/other issues. Then there's no password/code issues either as the teachers know the Managed Apple ID password if required (federated to the Entra account) and these are also still unique per account. No passcode on the iPads, managed layout via Jamf School etc too. 

Cheers

That's how I had it suggested too. Device name tied to an account in Lightspeed and the teacher was supposed to keep track, but it doesn't happen so we can only know which device has triggered an alert and it's usually too late. I think shared iPad is possibly the only way to truly track internet usage per student, but the sluggish, finnicky experience I've seen thus far is not gonig to land well with the classrooms at all... 

 

Once the intial login and passcode creation is done, it's not that bad really. It's that getting them signed in and a passcode created that's going to be an issue...

Edited April 14 by Planehazza