Abstract:

Using the tablets in schools became almost a necessity nowadays. We empower the students and give them a tool that can help them not only to gain new informations, but to create, elaborate, cooperate and get them ready for the new digital era, that already started.

This abstract is focused on iPad tablets being used at schools for education. I have visited more then 400 schools during my time with Apple and my job was to make sure the iPads are easy to use both for teachers and the students. Most of the schools know their way using the hardware it self, which app to use and how to handle the class using the devices. Yet the biggest trick starts at the very begging. How to enroll them and make them work for us, so we dont work for them. Easy said not so easily applied.

Proper iPads enrollment in school environment is crutual to their farther usage. There are many ways how to handle this issue. Today we shall focus on MDM, Mobile device management. A tool, that brings the teachers easy sleep over some possible technical difficulties, lack of apps installed in the class while they shall be focused on teaching. Instead of teaching, most of the time the teachers struggle with thechology, settings, missing profiles, apps and others. That makes the teaching and for students the learning very difficult. Some teachers just give up and wont use them any more. Such experience create obstacle towards using mobile technologies generally, and wont be easily over come for them in the near future.

Mobile device management is a tool very often spoken of, but rarely applied in its full capacity. Mostly it is also due to its cost. I will share possible scenarios, where MDM cost is zero, but still reliable and trustworthy tool for all type of schools. We will dive into different school types and settings scenarios. Some schools have 1:1 project for iPads, some have shared carts, and some have just iPads used by teachers.

Keywords:

MDM, iPad, tablet.