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We all know how well apple make things look good but in practicality it's not always like that. We purchased iPad pro keyboards for all our iPad pros and within just over a year I would say more than half had stopped working.

Turning more and more into a pc / laptop.

We're being told to come to work unless we have symptoms, even if someone at home has been tested positive for corona. I don't understand how they think this is a good idea. I think this may change over the next day or so though. Edit: This has now changed and we are being told to stay home for 14 days.

Our 6th form has a lot of students not turning up. A lot of them being internationals and going back to their home country in case UK goes into lock down.

What are people doing if staff are going to have to work from home. We have teaching staff sorted with iPads and google meet/classroom but our main issue is support staff. We will ask them to use their own machines if possible but for any that refuse or don't have their own machine we will issue a school laptop. Can we ask staff to use their own machines? We've found that Windows 10 Home doesn't have the Remote Desktop client which will be a problem. Does anyone have a way round this?

Our 6th form has a lot of internationals that are flying home in case uk goes into lock down. Not sure on percentage but every day there are more and more not coming in.

Wondering this also. Find it odd that the instructions are to not allow students access to the internet but CC now requires activation online.

Not unless you share it again. It might be best to create a shared drive area that is shared with that group so they always have access. Alternatively, you can use a GAM/powershell script to share the files/folders on schedule.

+1 for IHasco. Not just used for GDPR but other stuff too (manual handling etc). They even released a corona virus video.

It depends how you want to deploy the iPads. To be honest, everyone should be using Apple School Manager now as it's how you purchase your app licenses and create apple ids. With any MDM you shouldn't need to use Apple Configurator as all the settings are pulled from your MDM. But, if you yourself are setting up iPads in bulk, then using Apple Configurator to bypass the ipad setup process and install the Wifi certificate and install apps as they are cached on the machine will speed things up. You don't need to use Apple Configurator but can help in certain situations.

try asking /r/k12sysadmin A lot of American schools should be using federated logins with 1:1 iPads.

We're not seeing this issue but we're not using federated login so might be something to do with that? Might be a mix of federated logins + updating the iPads? We recently updated our shared mode iPads and had a few issues with students logging in.

This is our experience. Tried several solutions but none work well enough and miss a lot out. We actually find our own firewall does a better job so we look at keyword searches and have the firewall (fortigate) email reports and search terms to the relevant people. We have iMessage disabled on iPads so we don't need to worry about messaging on that.

Common = Yes Easy working reliable solution = No Any type of internet monitoring on an iPad will require a specific browser for the company to monitor unless you do the monitoring yourself through your firewall. If you want to view student iPad screens, you can use Apple School Manager and setup classes in an MDM.

Can't remember where I heard about this and I've not used it myself but this might be what you're looking for: https://www.chromex.io/en

If you have something t o deploy software like pdq, you can script it with these switches: vcredist_x86.exe /install /passive /norestart vcredist_x64.exe /install /passive /norestart

Just to confirm, can students still use Meet with staff if we disable the Google Hangouts service in the admin console?

Has anyone moved over to the cloud based Lucid Exact licensing provided by GL Assessment? From what I understand, our current on-site license covers us for concurrent sessions. So we have 40 licenses which means up to 40 people can be using it at any one time but we can do as many tests and add as many students as we like. We asked Lucid about this and is apparently correct. Our license is up for renewal but we are now having to move to their cloud based solution (yay, 1 less SQL database). BUT, they now charger per student per test. So our license costs is going from £200~ to about £1000. Anyone else have the same experiance?

Just realised you're installing an AR app. There was a new type of AR released a couple years back that is now only supported on certain models of iPad. Can't find much information at the moment but I guess the ipad air 2 doesn't support that app. On the AR Makr itunes page it lists these models: Requires iOS 12.4 or later. Compatible with iPad Pro (12.9‑inch), iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (9.7‑inch), iPad Pro (9.7‑inch) Wi‑Fi + Cellular, iPad (5th generation), iPad (5th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (2nd generation), iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (2nd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5‑inch), iPad Pro (10.5‑inch) Wi‑Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation), iPad Wi‑Fi + Cellular (6th generation), iPad Pro (11‑inch), iPad Pro (11‑inch) Wi‑Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (3rd generation), iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (5th generation), iPad mini (5th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation), and iPad (7th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular. Just found some more information: https://ioshacker.com/iphone/arkit-compatibility-list-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch Modern iOS devices that don’t support ARKit iPhone 6 Plus iPhone 6 iPhone 5s iPad Air 2 iPad mini 4th generation iPod touch 6th generation

Has your push certificate expired?

You can put an iPad in lost mode and make it ping without signing into an iCloud account. I beleive Mosyle has this feature but might require the paid version. I'm not sure as we use Jamf.

How are you deploying the apps? Are you using VPP device assigned licenses or are you using user licenses? There should be no need to use an iCloud account these days with your setup. You can put a device in lost most via your MDM. Do you download apps from the app store? Maybe they're trying to update. I would change your setup and used shared iPad mode if possible. So students have to sign into the iPad as themselves.

This is something I'm about to look into. Did you install all the software you use on a test machine to create the Rules for applocker? Or do you just allow everything in the Program File folders to be ran?

Best to set it up as a scheduled task to run once a day. We have a few daily tasks that run to control a few things like calendars, folders and groups.

I don't think pointing gam at a group for this command will work because it's looking for a specific user. I've just tested this with Gam Advanced 3 so this command will depend on what version of gam you're using but it seems to work: gam print members group [email protected] | gam csv - gam user [email protected] delegate to ~email Alternatively, you could powershell it: Get-ADGroupMember -Identity "Group Name" | Get-ADUser -Properties Mail | Select-Object Mail | Export-CSV -Path C:\location\name.csv -NoTypeInformation $list = Import-Csv -Path C:\location\name.csv cd c:\gam foreach ($entry in $list){ .\gam user $($entry.mail) delegate to [email protected] }