App: Classroom
Developer: Apple
Genres: Education

Classroom turns your Mac into a powerful teaching assistant, helping you guide students through a lesson, see their progress, and keep them on track. With Classroom, you can easily launch the same app on every student iPad or Mac at the same time or launch a different app for each group of students. Classroom helps teachers focus on teaching so students can focus on learning.

Assign Shared iPads to students
	•	Once configured, Classroom connects to nearby student iPads
	•	Classroom intelligently assigns students to the Shared iPad they most recently used
	•	Log students out of Shared iPad at the end of a session to prepare for the next class
Start, focus, or pause student work
	•	Launch any app, website, or book for students with a click
	•	Lock into a single app to help students focus
	•	Lock screens to pause work or refocus your class
	•	Mute audio on student devices
See what your students see with Screen View
	•	See an overview of all student screens at once
	•	Focus on a single student screen
	•	Students are informed when their screens are being viewed
Share documents and links with your class using AirDrop
	•	Share to your entire class with just one click
	•	Students can also share with you
Share student work on the classroom Apple TV
	•	Show the great work your students are doing to the entire class
	•	Use AirPlay to wirelessly present a student’s screen
	•	Students are informed when their screens are being presented
Reset forgotten passwords right in the classroom
	•	Reset a Managed Apple ID password without calling IT
Organize students using groups
	•	Classroom automatically creates groups of students based on the apps they are using
	•	Teachers can create groups to break students into project teams
	•	Perform actions on entire groups or on individual students within groups
Great for use with both 1:1 and Shared iPad student devices
Supports IT-managed classes or teacher-created classes
All actions take place over the local network only

Requirements

Teacher: Mac with macOS 11.3 or later
Students: iPad with iOS 14.4 or later 
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled on both student and teacher devices
Students within Bluetooth range of the teacher running Classroom

Release notes:
• Easily share files with students as an action item in agendas
• Quickly find agendas with a new list view and ability to search and sort