What’s new for schools?

Apple has introduced several new features and enhancements specifically designed for educational environments. Here are the key updates:

Schoolwork 3.0:
- New Assessment and Scoring Workflows: Teachers can now send assessments by scanning or importing existing documents, including Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Google Suite documents, and PDFs.
- Scoring and Analytics: Teachers can score documents and analyze student performance per question, helping to identify trends and create personalized learning experiences.
- Assessment Mode: Developers can configure their apps to disable certain hardware and software features to create a secure testing environment.
- Multi-App Mode: As of iPadOS 17.6, multi-app mode is available, allowing the use of secondary apps like notepads, spreadsheets, assistive apps, coding apps, and a new calculator app that can be customized for classrooms and standardized exams.
Easy Student Sign-In:
- Teachers signed into an iPad with their managed Apple account can quickly sign students into their devices.
- With iPadOS 17.4 and macOS 14.4, teachers can use Classroom with any nearby iPad and Mac devices, regardless of account status.
Apple School Manager Enhancements:
- Domain Capture: Improvements to make it easier to deploy managed Apple accounts.
- Activation Lock Features: New features to recover organization devices that have had activation lock inadvertently left on.
- Software Update Controls: Implement phased rollouts starting from the first beta, and manage Safari extensions directly from MDM.

For more detailed information, you can refer to the session What’s new in device management (21:45).