Apple School Manager

The key to effectively managing Apple devices in education.

Ever had your school’s Apple devices returned after a student left to find them locked into their personal iCloud account, along with your educational apps? You’d be forgiven for being annoyed.

Luckily, Apple School Manager (ASM) allows your Apple devices to be unlocked and re-used for classes and lectures – far more cost-effective than purchasing new devices and licences.

ASM is a vital tool for schools and other educational establishments that use Apple tech. Think of ASM as an asset manager keeping a tight rein on your Macs, iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs, storing their serial numbers, whilst improving the security and management of all your school’s Apple devices.

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Why Apple School Manager is an essential tool

ASM is a powerful web-based service that’s separate from Mobile Device Management (MDM) platforms. But when you link ASM to MDM, it creates a streamlined, secure solution allowing your IT administrators to remotely manage your devices.

ASM will integrate with your Student Information System (SIS). The resulting centralised dashboard allows automated enrolment, simplified initial Apple device setup, and creates individual Managed Apple IDs for everyone – school management, staff, instructors and students. You don’t even need to physically touch the devices.

It’s the Managed Apple IDs that prove your establishment’s ownership of all Apple devices and their educational apps, books and services, allowing the redeployment of all your devices.

That’s why ASM is the obvious, most cost-effective choice for educational institutions.

Key Features:

  • Device enrolment

    Automatically enrols devices into your MDM platform allowing learning resources to be immediately available.

  • Integrates with your Student Information System (SIS)

    Integrate with your SIS either directly or using the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) for the fast creation of user accounts with school rosters and classes.

  • Managed Apple IDs

    Create unique Apple IDs within ASM for secure access to Apple services and apps. Sync user accounts with Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID or your identity provider.

  • Tracks Class and Teacher Changes

    If a student joins your school two weeks into the academic year, a Managed Apple ID tied to the student’s instructor is ready and waiting.

  • Personalise Shared Macs or iPads

    When sharing a device, students need simply sign in with their Managed Apple ID to pick up right where they left off.

  • App and Book Distribution

    Use ASM to bulk buy apps, books and other content (look out for discounts!) for protected licence ownership and distribution control.

  • Access to Apple Services

    Managed Apple IDs provide secure access to essential Apple services such as iCloud Drive, Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and Notes, restricted to comply with school policies.

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How we help

Command-R will guide you through Apple School Manager’s setup process, ensuring that the configuration is tailored to your needs. Once complete, ASM will be ready to accept new devices from an authorised Apple reseller.

If any of your existing Apple devices were bought elsewhere, you may not be able to register them in ASM. Don’t worry – we can retrospectively add them. The process involves wiping the devices to manually add them giving you full control for future redeployments.

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