From: Victoria Bowen Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 at 10:30am
How do I set up a school itunes account to purchase the apps we need for the iPads?
How have other schools done this?
Victoria
Michael Moore
Tue, 27 Mar
We purchased itunes cards for each ipad to the value of
the apps that we wished to install. These were then assigned to each
ipad's account.
Michael.
Willie Davidson
Wed, 28 Mar
At Bellshill
Academy we set up accounts to tie into the Acceptable Use Policy (attached).
It’s based on the assumption that we need to retain control of the pupils iPads
and their content. We felt that this was particularly important as we have over
100 machines going home. Staff and parents needed to be guaranteed access and
we did this by setting up accounts in advance and making it a breach of the
policy to change any usernames or passwords. All log in details were based on
the existing logins used to gain access to the school network.
On the evening
when we distributed the iPads parents were required to come into school. At the meeting I briefly went through
the key points of the policy with parents and pupils. We then broke into
registration classes and both parents & pupils were asked to read the
policy and sign 2 copies (1 for them and 1 for the school). Parents then had a
copy of the sign in details. The same details were put into a spreadsheet in
the staff area of the school intranet. This allowed teachers to view any iPad
and the school to use the “Find my iPad” facility.
By setting up
the accounts ourselves it also ensured that North Lanarkshire Council retained
control and ownership of the paid Apps we were installing (Pages, Keynote,
iMovie & Garage Band). Pupils were warned that we could not guarantee that
they would be able to transfer out any paid Apps they purchase. Finally we also
added a link to Apples on line training through the school website.
The spreadsheet we created consisted of:
Bellshill
Account
Password
Surname
First
iPad
No.
Ipad
code
Tutor
Class
Icloud
Account
Serial
Number
With each tutor class having a different spreadsheet.
Hope this is of use
Willie
Jamie Marshall
Wed, 28 Mar
By setting up a separate Apple ID for iCloud (that the
user owns) and for app purchases (that the institution owns) this also
allows for the student to retain ownership of the *content* created
within the apps that the institution provides. This means that when the
student leaves school and purchases their own iPad they can purchase
their own copy of the app (e.g. Pages) and their content will be
restored from their iCloud backup.
Jamie
Configurator
can currently deploy settings to 30 iPads at a time and it is possible
to deploy an MDM payload to the devices to enrol them in an MDM
solution. Bear in mind this is a 1.0 release and Apple will add more
functionality in time.
Michael Moore Tue, 27 Mar
Willie Davidson Wed, 28 Mar
Jamie Marshall Wed, 28 Mar