How Jamf Teacher empowers educators with Apple EEP support

How does Jamf Teacher benefit teachers?

Tech in the classroom has to improve learning and teaching, else it becomes a hinderance to both. That's why many teachers use iPads to enhance the classroom. But tech given to students without teacher moderation is bound to be a distraction at best, dangerous at worst.

Jamf helps teachers configure their students' devices and offers device management and security built for education. With Jamf, schools can manage student and staff devices, configuring them with the necessary settings that make devices powerful tools. And with content filtering and other security protections, students can browse the internet freely without risking access to malicious or inappropriate content.

The power of Jamf is especially seen in the classroom, where teachers gain control of their students' learning on their devices. The Jamf Teacher app allows teachers to:

• Allow or restrict websites and apps to keep focus on learning
• Disable features like Apple Intelligence to check student competencies
• Get students' attention with on-device prompts
• Add apps to student devices and request apps from IT
• Send messages to students who need help
• Configure devices specifically for their lessons with lesson templates

This means teachers can seamlessly integrate devices with their curriculum. For instance, during a math lesson, they may enable access to a math-related educational game. Then, when they shift to an English lesson, they might disable access to AI tools as students write essays and remove other distractions like the math game. If a student doesn't understand the essay prompt, they can message the teacher for clarification. All this is made possible with Jamf.

What is the Apple EEP?

Jamf Teacher supports educators with a section that showcases apps from the Apple Education Ecosystem Partner (EEP) program. This program showcases many apps that directly impact education and are vetted by Apple to serve educators and institutions. Apps in this program provide specific solutions to educators, and many provide additional professional learning opportunities to further support educators with technology. Within Jamf Teacher, educators can now search through their list as well as though any other pre-approved applications made available by their IT teams.

In addition to apps pre-approved by IT, this gives teachers a host of appropriate apps to choose from that support their learning initiatives.

Purposeful technology for teacher empowerment

Apple devices like iPad provide features that are excellent for education, and the Apple EEP offers teachers tools for their Apple devices. And Jamf offers powerful device administration from IT to the classroom. With Apple and Jamf teachers can seamlessly integrate devices into their lessons to:

• Enhance the learning experience
• Provide personalized and accessible learning
• Tailor devices to their curriculum
• Allow for safe internet browsing
• Encourage digital citizenship