Classroom turns your iPad or Mac into a powerful teaching assistant, helping a teacher guide students with iPads through a lesson, see their progress, and keep them on track. With Classroom, you can easily launch the same app on every student device at the same time, or launch a different app for each group of students.
![]() Apple during its education-focused event in Chicago today announced that its existing iOS 'Classroom' app will be making the move to Mac, beginning with a beta this June. Classroom is a 'teaching assistant' that helps teachers manage their students' iPads, as well as guide kids through lessons, keep them on track, and share their work. Using the app, teachers can launch apps, books, and websites on all student devices simultaneously, and send or receive documents. Classroom also allows teachers to view their students' screens so that they 'stay focused,' and other administrative options like password resets. At the same time, the company revealed a new cloud-based app called 'Schoolwork' that lets teachers assign handouts and track the progress of their students. Apple said that Schoolwork 'builds on the success' of the Classroom app and both apps will be combined to help educators 'get the most out of integrating Apple technology into schools.' “Creativity sparks a deeper level of engagement in students, and we’re excited to help teachers bring out that creativity in the classroom,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.Using Schoolwork, teachers will be able to make handouts that include PDFs, links, and other documents, as well as check in on the progress of every student for a specific assignment. Schoolwork will integrate with third-party apps using Apple's ClassKit API, acting as a hub of sorts for a classroom's projects and assignments. Schoolwork will be available for teachers in June. ![]()
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The lets teachers digitally pass handouts to students and set up assignments for them to complete. Notes, PDF documents, and web links can be sent to students using the iPad app, with teachers able to monitor their progress and receive assignments back once they are completed.Teachers can assign a specific activity within an app and direct their students directly to the specific point within the app. Popular education apps like Nearpod, Tynker and Kahoot are already integrating support for Schoolwork. Developers can now update their apps to take advantage of Schoolwork by utilizing ClassKit, a new education framework, to make it easy to assign activities and view student progress.
Schoolwork and apps that take advantage of it give teachers new insight into how their students are performing, helping them tailor teaching to the needs of individual students. With Schoolwork, teachers have a snapshot of each student's overall class performance at any time, and can check on students' app activities and progress on their assignments.ClassKit is expected in iOS 11.4, according to Apple. Apple plans to release the Schoolwork app in June, giving teachers time to learn how best to use it for classes. Classroom has been around for two years on iOS, as a way for teachers to manage iPads used by students in the classroom, automatically connecting to a class' iPads. It can be used to remotely open apps, launch websites, or access books, with educators also able to remotely monitor the student's screen, and to lock all devices to refocus the student's attention.Classroom lets teachers view student screens during class to help students stay focused, assign shared iPads to specific students for class and even reset a student's password.
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