Learn how to use the latest features on Apple platforms to build and optimize your apps for the classroom.
Development
Mac App Store is the simplest way to find and download apps for your Mac. To download apps from the Mac App Store, you need a Mac with OS X 10.6.6 or later. Apple debuted a brand-new iPad today at its education-themed press event in Chicago. It’s not any cheaper than the lowest-cost iPad you could have already purchased ($329), but you can score a. The same is true for Apple’s free creativity apps, Photos, GarageBand and iMovie. And when you’re ready to take your creativity to the next level, we offer an education discount on a bundle of industry-leading professional apps for filmmakers and musicians, including Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro X.
Reporting student progress with ClassKit
With the ClassKit framework, you can help teachers easily discover specific learning activities in your app, take students directly to the right activity with a single tap, and securely and privately share progress data to help teachers personalize instruction.
Customizing experiences for Shared iPads
Your app can deliver personalized experiences for each student, even when they share iPads in class. Optimize your app for the Shared iPad feature to save login credentials and states to the keychain, so students can automatically sign in to your app and pick up right where they left off. Find out how to optimize your app and how to let schools know about it.
Learn how apps and tools on Apple platforms make it easy for teachers to manage devices and educational apps in the classroom, and provide valuable insight into each student’s progress.
Creating coding experiences with Swift Playgrounds
Education and robotics developers interested in offering text-based coding experiences can create Swift Playground Books for iPad. The Swift Playgrounds app was launched with iOS 10 and is recommended for students 12 years of age or older.
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Securing iPads used for assessments
Assessment developers can easily lock down an iPad using the Automatic Assessment Configuration entitlement, with no device management required. Find out how to apply for and implement this entitlement.
Management
Making it easy to set preferences
Most schools use Mobile Device Management to manage their iPads. Your app can work with Mobile Device Management services to allow school administrators to easily set preferences for your app across many devices.
It’s never been easier to put Apple products in the hands of students and teachers. We’ve simplified the set up process so you can enroll everyone in your school quickly, configure devices automatically, and seamlessly buy and distribute apps and books.
Distribution
Apple School Manager
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All apps on the App Store are automatically available for volume purchase in Apple School Manager, which is where educational institutions download apps for volume distribution. You can offer your apps to educational institutions for a reduced price or identify specific organizations you’d like to let download your app.
Offer custom apps
You can meet the unique needs of educational institutions by privately offering apps you’ve customized just for them on Apple School Manager. Educational institutions can also use this feature to distribute proprietary apps for internal use.
You can enable a 50% discount for educational institutions that purchase 20 or more copies of your iOS app or Mac app. Opt your apps in or out of special pricing at any time in App Store Connect.
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Every child is born full of creativity. Nurturing it is one of the most important things educators do. Creativity makes your students better communicators and problem-solvers. It prepares them to thrive in today’s world — and to shape tomorrow’s. Apple is constantly creating resources to help educators do just that. Not only powerful products, but also tools, inspiration and curriculums to create magical learning experiences and make every moment of screen time worth it.
Products for Learning
Flexible tools that flex imaginations. Spark student engagement with new ways to learn.
iPad and Mac
Apple products give students complete freedom of expression. iPad is so intuitive, anyone can instantly take an idea and run with it. Mac provides the power to pursue the most ambitious projects. Students can even start creating on iPad, then pick up where they left off on Mac. And with all-day battery life, iPad and Mac keep going long after the last class is over.
Bring any project to life.
Any way you want.
iPad and Mac have versatile built-in apps like Pages to transform assignments, GarageBand to make homework sing, and iMovie to put on a show. And the Swift Playgrounds app helps students learn the fundamentals of how to code.
Teaching Tools
Simplify the day-to-day tasks of teaching with apps designed to make the classroom more flexible, collaborative and personalised for each student.
Augmented Reality
Turn the classroom into the cosmos or bring history into the present. Augmented reality apps on iPad bring digital objects into the real world to spark curiosity and enhance understanding.
Curriculums
Different ways to learn the core subjects. Help students think, experiment and learn through creativity and coding.
Everyone Can Create
Dive into project guides that integrate creativity in every subject through drawing, photography, music and video.
Teaching Code
Get curriculums to teach the fundamentals with Everyone Can Code, or get right into designing and developing apps with Develop in Swift.
Teachers
Inspiration and support for educators. Take teaching further and get help using iPad, Mac and apps.
Everything Apple makes for teachers. All in one place.
Find the latest resources designed by Apple to help teachers use technology and inspire creativity in the classroom.
Learn skills.
Earn recognition.
Sign up for Apple Teacher, a free, self-paced professional learning programme for educators. Build skills on iPad and Mac that directly apply to teaching, earn recognition for the new things you learn, and be rewarded for great work.
Follow us on Twitter @AppleEDU and join the conversation #AppleEDUChat to get a peek at some of the great things other educators are doing around the world.
Apple Education Mac Mini
IT and Deployment
Support to get up and running quickly. Find out how to set up and integrate Apple products into your school.
iPad and Mac are easy to set up, maintain and use. The Education Deployment Guide will walk you through every step of setup. Apple School Manager streamlines device management. And with thousands of powerful apps designed for teaching and learning, you can build a personalised learning experience for every student.
Leaders
Lead the way for creativity. Explore resources designed by Apple educators to help school leaders bring creativity into the heart of learning.
Books for Leaders
Our leadership series has strategies and practical tools to help you build a culture of innovation at your school.
Apple Distinguished Schools
See how the most innovative schools around the world are using technology to expand what’s possible for learning, create new opportunities for teaching, and establish a dynamic environment that inspires both.
Apple Professional Learning Specialists
Bring APL Specialists to your school for extra support. They coach and mentor your educators in using technology to engage students in deeper learning.
The Impact of Creativity
When schools place creativity at the centre of learning, students thrive. Browse the research that shows how Apple technology helps teachers teach and students learn.
Students in creative classrooms show increases in critical skills.
Schools with iPad show increases in literacy, maths and science scores.
Apple Values
Apple products are designed to empower every student. Find out how Apple keeps personal information private, adapts to the different ways students learn, and protects the planet.
Privacy
Apple Mac App Store App
Every Apple product is built from the ground up to protect privacy. Including products built for education, like Apple School Manager, Schoolwork and Managed Apple IDs. We don’t create user profiles, we don’t sell personal information, and we don’t share information with third parties to use for marketing or advertising.
Accessibility
Apple products are designed with accessibility features built in, enabling everyone to learn and create in ways that work best for them. Because technology is most powerful when it empowers everyone.
Environment
Every Apple product is designed to reduce our impact on the planet without compromising performance or strength. So we can leave the world better than we found it.
Learn to teach code.
Help students code like the pros.
The Develop in Swift curriculum has been completely redesigned to help students explore app development on a Mac and code just like the pros, for a term or for certification. The curriculum is now accompanied by a free online professional learning course to help more educators give students an opportunity to make an impact with code.
Resources that help enable learning anytime, anywhere.
Discover a collection of apps, curriculums and resources for IT, teachers, students and parents that bring engaging learning experiences to any environment.