Import and Configure Classes for Apple's Classroom App

You can use an assistant in the JSS to import classes from Apple School Manager and configure them in the JSS to use with Apple's Classroom app. This automatically creates classes in the JSS. When you integrate with Apple School Manager, you configure a class naming format by choosing variables that are applied to the display name for all imported classes. (For more information, see Integrate with Apple School Manager.) In addition, the Students payload and Teachers payload for imported classes are automatically populated with the information imported from Apple School Manager.

When you import a class, you also import the students and teachers associated with the class. This allows you to automatically create new users in the JSS from the students and teachers in Apple School Manager or append information to existing users in the JSS.

You can select from the following options when importing students and teachers from Apple School Manager:

  • Match to an existing user in the JSS—Imported users are matched to existing users in the JSS based on the criteria selected when integrating the JSS with Apple School Manager. (For more information, see Integrate with Apple School Manager.) The JSS displays potential existing users in the JSS that match the specified criteria. When you select an existing user in the JSS to match the imported user to, the following information is populated in the Roster category of the user's inventory information:

    • Last Sync

    • Status

    • User Number

    • Full name from Roster

    • First Name

    • Middle Name

    • Last Name

    • Managed Apple ID

    • Grade

    • Password Policy

If this information existed in the JSS prior to matching the imported user with the existing user, the information is updated.

  • Create a new user in the JSS—If you choose to create a new user, the imported user is automatically added to the JSS in the Users tab and inventory information is entered in the Roster category for the user.

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After a class is imported, if a sync time is configured for the Apple School Manager instance, class information is updated automatically based on the Apple School Manager Sync Time. (For more information about configuring the Apple School Manager Sync Time, see Integrate with Apple School Manager.)

Note: If a student or teacher is added to a class in Apple School Manager after the class has been imported, the user is imported to the JSS and matched with existing users at the configured sync time based on the criteria for matching imported users from Apple School Manager. If there is no match, the imported user is added to the JSS as a new user in the Users tab. (For more information, see Matching Criteria for Importing Users from Apple School Manager.)

Requirements

To configure a class in the JSS by importing class information from Apple School Manager, you need the following:

  • The JSS v9.99.0 or later

  • Supervised iPads with iOS 9.3 or later

  • The JSS integrated with Apple School Manager. (For more information, see Integrate with Apple School Manager.)

  • Apple Education Support enabled in the JSS. (For more information, see Enable Apple Education Support.)

  • A JSS user account with the "Users" and "Classes" privileges

  • Teachers assigned to iPads in the JSS. (For more information, see the User Assignments section in the Casper Suite Administrator’s Guide.)

In addition, you must ensure that teacher and student iPads meet the minimum device requirements for use with Apple’s Classroom app. For more information, see Classroom Requirements in Apple’s Classroom Help documentation.

Note: To distribute App Store apps and apply app usage restrictions to Shared iPad in a class, device-assignable apps must be added to the JSS and distributed to iPads using device-based VPP assignments. For more information, see VPP Managed Distribution for Mobile Devices and App Store Apps in the Casper Suite Administrator’s Guide .

Importing and Configuring a Class

  1. Log in to the JSS with a web browser.

  2. Click Mobile Devices at the top of the page.

  3. Click Classes.

  4. Click Import images/download/thumbnails/12981018/Import.png and do the following:

    1. Follow the onscreen instructions to import class information.
      If you import users from Apple School Manager that match current users in the JSS, you can choose to match the imported user with the current user, or create a new user in the JSS with the information imported from Apple School Manager.
      Note: If you have site access only, classes are imported to your site only.

    2. Click Done.
      Class information is imported to the JSS, and user information is applied in the Users tab. (For more information about importing user information, see the Importing Users to the JSS from Apple School Manager section of the Casper Suite Administrator's Guide.)
      Note: If you import a class that adds teachers to a class, the teachers must be assigned to an iPad in the JSS. (For more information, see the User Assignments section in the Casper Suite Administrator’s Guide.)

  5. Click the class you imported, and then click Edit.

  6. Add mobile device groups to the class using the Mobile Device Groups payload.

  7. (Optional) Use the App Usage Restrictions payload to restrict which apps are available to users on Shared iPad.

  8. (Optional) Use the Home Screen Layout payload to configure the layout of the Dock and the pages on the iPad.

  9. Click Save.

The JSS automatically creates an associated EDU profile that is installed on the iPads. This profile allows student and teacher iPads to communicate. It also ensures that students can log in to a Shared iPad device if Shared iPad has been enabled on the iPad.

The class configuration is applied to student and teacher iPads when the iPads check in with the JSS.

Teachers can log in to Apple’s Classroom app on their iPads to control student iPads. For more information, see Start Your Class in Apple’s Classroom Help documentation.

Removing a Student from Shared iPad

It is recommended that you remove students from Shared iPad if they are no longer using the iPad for the class.

  1. Log in to the JSS with a web browser.

  2. Click Mobile Devices at the top of the page.

  3. Perform a simple or advanced mobile device search.
    For more information, see Simple Mobile Device Searches or Advanced Mobile Device Searches in the Casper Suite Administrator’s Guide.

  4. Click the iPad you want to remove a student from.
    If you performed a simple search for an item other than mobile devices, you must click Expand next to an item to view the mobile devices related to that item.

  5. Click the Shared iPad Users category.
    A list of Shared iPad users is displayed.

  6. Click Remove next to the student you want to remove.

  7. Do one of the following:

    • Click Remove to remove the student from the iPad. The removal action does not complete if user information is syncing.

    • Click Force Remove to remove the student from the iPad immediately.

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