Apple Schoolwork

"Schoolwork is a powerful iPad app that helps teachers and students use the power of iPad more effectively. Teachers can easily distribute and collect assignments, keep an eye on student progress in educational apps, and collaborate one-on-one with students from anywhere, in real time. It’s easy for students to use, too. Assignments automatically appear on their iPad devices, organized by due date and class. And Schoolwork helps teachers keep up with how everyone in class is doing so they can tailor their teaching to the needs of each student."

Taken from "What's New in Schoolwork" at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208894

This app works and functions best if all iPads (both Teacher and Students) are updated to the most recent software (iOS 15.1+).

Current Version: 2.3 (1126)

Creating Custom Sections for Classroom

In a managed environment like ours, you cannot create custom classes in Apple Classroom. However, by using Apple Schoolwork, you are able to create those classes quickly and easily!

This is great for guidance counselors, co-teachers, WIN time, clubs, or any other subject/teacher that does not have classes populated from PowerSchool.

Creating Assignments/Handouts

App Activities

Use with supported apps like Tynker and Swift Playgrounds to assign particular lessons to students.

Files

Create templates or give students access to created examples for them to manipulate.

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Photo Library

Access your photos to give students the ability to download pictures and videos quickly for presentations and more!

Photo or Video

Take photos on the fly to send to students in Schoolwork.

Scan Documents

Schoolwork turns your physical copies into scanned digital copies with just a couple clicks!

Webpage

This gives you the option to just type in websites that you'd like the students to have access to.

Bookmarks

Similar to Webpage, but instead of typing in the URL, you can just pull it directly from your Safari bookmarks.

Hand-in Request

Use Hand-in Request when you are giving students an option to show their understanding with a medium of their choice.

The Brand New Exit Ticket Option

Apple Classroom now gives you the ability to create custom Exit Tickets (or Lesson Starters) for your students. This can be to get data at the end of the lesson to see what the students got from the lesson or as daily check-ins for SEL purposes. It's really up to you how you'd like to use them, but you have four different options to choose from.

Tip: By creating generic questions and adding them to your favorites, you can use them across multiple subject areas on the fly!

*Requires you and the students to Updated to iOS 15.1

With up to five answer choices, you can use this format as a wrap up to see what students know, or start off your lesson by seeing what students already know!

Give students a scale where you can label the left, center, and right side of that they can drag/toggle where they see fit.

Exactly what it says. Give students an open ended response question. Bonus: You can include sentence starters for the students.

Get students to rate the lesson with 1-5 stars, their emotions with emojis, or if they understand a topic with thumbs up or down!

Creating Templates with Files

When you creating a new assignment using the Files option, you have the same abilities as Google Classroom, but with the amazing tools Apple has like Keynote, Garageband, Pages, Clips, & iMovie. You can choose:

Each Student Can Edit Their Own File (Make a Copy for Each Student)
Students Collaborate Together on the Same File (Everyone Can Edit the Same Copy)
Only You Can Make Changes (View Only)

Coming Soon: Keynote & Pages Templates for You to Use

In this section, we will have Pages, Keynote, Clips, etc. templates and documents you can use in your classroom that were created by East Penn teachers. While they may appear here to start, our hope is that it will grow and we'll create a separate space for them!