Classroom

Classroom turns your Mac into a powerful teaching assistant, helping you 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 click

• 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 click

• 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

Great for use with both 1:1 and Shared iPad student devices

Supports IT-managed classes or teacher-created classes

All actions take place over the local network only

Requirements

Teacher: Mac with macOS 11.3 or later

Students: iPad with iOS 14.4 or later

Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled on both student and teacher devices

Students within Bluetooth range of the teacher running Classroom