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How to Access: iPad App

Classroom turns your iPad into a powerful teaching assistant, helping a teacher guide students through a lesson, see their progress, and keep them on track. With Classroom, you can easily launch the same app on every student iPad or Mac at the same time or launch a different app for each group of students. Classroom helps teachers focus on teaching so students can focus on learning.

• Assign Shared iPads to students

• Once configured, Classroom connects to nearby student iPads

• Classroom intelligently assigns students to the Shared iPad they most recently used

• Log students out of Shared iPad at the end of a session to prepare for the next class

• Start, focus, or pause student work

• Launch any app, website, or book for students with a tap

• Lock into a single app to help students focus

• Lock screens to pause work or refocus your class

• Mute audio on student devices

• See what your students see with Screen View

• See an overview of all student screens at once

• Focus on a single student screen

• Students are informed when their screens are being viewed

• Share documents and links with your class using AirDrop

• Share to your entire class with just one tap

• Students can also share with you

• Share student work on the classroom Apple TV

• Show the great work your students are doing to the entire class

• Use AirPlay to wirelessly present a student’s screen

• Students are informed when their screens are being presented

• Reset forgotten passwords right in the classroom

• Reset a Managed Apple ID password without calling IT

• Organize students using groups

• Classroom automatically creates groups of students based on the apps they are using

• Teachers can create groups to break students into project teams

• Perform actions on entire groups or on individual students within groups