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Update an app and – guess what! - the privacy settings disappear and will need to be summoned again for that app on each and every iPad.

Apps sometimes don't even register the required setting and so need to be reinstalled. Scores of iPads need 'fixing' manually because certain apps end up not being able to access the camera, or whatever else, any more. What's not fair enough is that these settings can't be forced into 'on' or 'off' through Apple's deployment options or a third-party MDM (mobile device management) solution.īonkers, but why such a big deal? Well, young children tap 'Don't allow' when an app asks them for a permission because they have no idea what the dialogue box is asking them. Apps want to know if they can use the camera, access the mic, photos, etc - and that's all fair enough.

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Thus, schools limp along with crippled iPads full to the brim with children's selfies and videos – and no time-efficient way to get rid of them.

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With built-in iPad storage traditionally not the most generous – students and teachers will get 200GB of free storage for iCloud accounts with the latest wave of Apple slabs - you would think a tick-box somewhere within the stack of iPad management software would enable the deletion of all photos and videos.iPad, you've not just let the school down, you've let yourself down Hopefully the Apple education event was the sign of a wake-up call. Yes, Apple, you've brought along some improvements, but it's still a hideous hell-zone of calamities – all seemingly chugging along at a snail's pace on your development schedule.

I've seen many a network technician, fresh-faced and enthusiastic, enter the realm of school iPad deployment – 'Ah, Apple, masters of user experience, deployment will run itself, right?' Months later they're spotted, avoiding iPad trolleys at all costs: dejected, bitter souls. If Apple really wants to take on the mighty Chromebook march, it needs to nail such small but highly disruptive concerns – some have been festering away for years now unchecked. What's even more frustrating is that many issues needn't necessarily be that hard to resolve – yet the impact when multiplied by 30 to 300 iPads is huge. Unfortunately for education, iOS is clearly optimised for individuals us lot managing sets of shared devices used by 5 to 11-year-olds are the second-class citizens in this game. Hey, look at how much easier it is to do Maths work on a touchscreen! Those old squared-paper books are just such a waste of time, dudes! ( source) So for technology to work en masse in schools, management of devices and teacher/student workflow need to be almost flawless. There's no time to fix things on the fly - you may as well go back to candle power and get your favourite Roald Dahl out. Chucking a technology grenade into that mix is a heady and volatile experiment – if the tech isn't solid, quick, with settings primed and ready to go, a bout of spontaneous chaos is just moments away. Most adults understand that teaching groups of 30+ children in state education is demanding at the best of times – no doubt reason enough for many to avoid the profession entirely. Teachers: pick tech wisely or take a beating

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That stopped working as skint schools woke up to the fact that there are some shoddy, half-baked ideas and code lurking within Apple's confused glut of deployment software, and teachers became frustrated by the lack of simplicity for kids saving and retrieving work (note: Shared iPad, along with the just announced ClassKit and Schoolwork, might signal the beginning of the end for that particular wait, hopefully).