Import and Configure Classes for Apple's Classroom App

You can use an assistant in Jamf Pro to import classes from Apple School Manager and configure them in Jamf Pro to use with Apple's Classroom app. This automatically creates classes in Jamf Pro. 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 Jamf Pro from the students and teachers in Apple School Manager or append information to existing users in Jamf Pro.

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

  • Match to an existing user in Jamf Pro—Imported users are matched to existing users in Jamf Pro based on the criteria selected when integrating Jamf Pro with Apple School Manager. (For more information, see Integrate with Apple School Manager.) Jamf Pro displays potential existing users in Jamf Pro that match the specified criteria. When you select an existing user in Jamf Pro 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 Jamf Pro prior to matching the imported user with the existing user, the information is updated.

  • Create a new user in Jamf Pro—If you choose to create a new user, the imported user is automatically added to Jamf Pro 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 Jamf Pro 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 Jamf Pro 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 Jamf Pro by importing class information from Apple School Manager, you need the following:

  • Jamf Pro 9.99.0 or later

  • Supervised iPads with iOS 9.3 or later

  • Jamf Pro integrated with Apple School Manager (For more information, see Integrate with Apple School Manager.)

  • Apple Education Support enabled in Jamf Pro (For more information, see Enable Apple Education Support.)

  • A Jamf Pro user account with the "Users" and "Classes" privileges

  • Teacher assigned to an iPad or computer in Jamf Pro (For more information, see the User Assignments section in the Jamf Pro Administrator’s Guide.)

In addition, you must ensure that teacher and student devices 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 Jamf Pro 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 Jamf Pro Administrator’s Guide .

Importing and Configuring a Class

  1. Log in to Jamf Pro.

  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 Jamf Pro, you can choose to match the imported user with the current user, or create a new user in Jamf Pro 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 Jamf Pro, and user information is applied in the Users tab. For more information about importing user information, see the Importing Users to Jamf Pro from Apple School Manager section of the Jamf Pro Administrator's Guide.
      Note: If you import a class that adds teachers to a class, the teachers must be assigned to an iPad or computer in Jamf Pro. For more information, see the User Assignments section in the Jamf Pro 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.

Jamf Pro automatically creates an associated EDU profile that is installed on the teacher devices and student iPads. This profile allows student and teacher devices 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 devices when the devices check in with Jamf Pro.

Teachers can log in to Apple’s Classroom app on their devices to control student iPads. For more information, see Conduct 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 Jamf Pro.

  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 Jamf Pro 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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