What's new in Jamf Teacher: AI restrictions and more
Among a slew of other Jamf Teacher app enhancements this year, teachers can now control access to Apple Intelligence features in the classroom.

AI has been a boon for some and a frustration for others. Teachers, in particular, struggle with students who use AI for assignments rather than doing work on their own.
Now, Jamf Teacher can help.
What is Jamf Teacher?
The Jamf Teacher app is a key tool school IT administrators can offer to teachers. The free app helps to remove online distractions during class time. It also provides simple access to learning resources, communication and support channels.
Teachers can use the app to:
- Prepare and share lessons
- Manage student access
- Safelist and block apps
- Communicate with students
The app is even more powerful when used with Jamf School or Jamf Pro. This combination allows teachers to tailor the classroom experience to the unique needs of each subject and group of students.
The Jamf Teacher app has evolved beyond simple management tools to place a wide range of capabilities at teachers’ fingertips, including features that support remote learning models. Over time, the app has also simplified the interface while adding new capabilities.
Now, you can empower your educators to take control of AI in their classrooms.
Restricting Apple Intelligence (AI) features on iPad
While Apple Intelligence offers tools that can support learning and teaching under certain circumstances, providing educators with the choice of when to allow or remove these functions is essential. Many times, AI features can detract from a lesson or prevent teachers from knowing whether or not students have absorbed the math or writing lesson.
With Jamf Teacher, classroom instructors can control Apple AI features on iPad devices with just a few taps. Using the Restriction function, educators can set a time limit and choose whether students can access Writing Tools, Image Playground and Math Notes.
Lesson templates
This September, Jamf introduced enhancements to Lesson templates (formerly "Lessons").
User interface enhancements
The new UI allows teachers to create lessons more efficiently with:
- Icons for allowed websites, allowed apps and restriction action screens directly within Lesson templates
- A "Recently used in" section that allows for faster selection of frequently-used templates
- The ability to duplicate lesson templates in one tap or click
New actions and abilities
Users can now:
- Define how long specific action screens apply by class
- Sort lesson templates alphabetically by name, date created and date last used
- Receive an alert when a lesson template search returns no results
- Select and hold a lesson template name to start, duplicate, rename or delete
Raised Hand notifications
When the Jamf Teacher app is open, Raise Hand notifications no longer display as full-screen notifications.
- While the Jamf Teacher app runs in the background, Raise Hand notifications now only display as system notifications.
- Teachers can select the Raise Hand icon next to a student's name to open messages.
- The Raise Hand icon next to a student's name disappears after a teacher opens the notification.
- At the end of a class, Jamf Teacher informs educators that Raise Hand notifications will be cleared.
Delve deeper into Jamf Teacher’s potential
To learn more about these latest enhancements as well as past updates that we’ve put out for Jamf Teacher, you can consult our full release history.
Not using Jamf Teacher yet in your school or district? Check out our deployment guide for Jamf School or the deployment guide for Jamf Pro to move classroom device management functionality from IT into teachers' hands.
Want to test drive Jamf Teacher before deploying it across your entire device fleet? Use Jamf Educator: an online, simulation-based environment where users can learn and apply the workflows in the Jamf Teacher app. It’s completely free, and is an additional online professional development tool for educators and school administrators.
Do you have feedback for improvements or new features in Jamf Teacher or our other products? Use ideas.jamf.com to submit a feature request or suggest an improvement.
Try the free Jamf Teacher app.