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Alphabetize Jamf Teacher rosters?

  • January 23, 2026
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ajbabcock
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We currently are not syncing our ASM data over to Jamf.  We are, however, using Jamf Teacher in some small instances by mnually creating Classes.  We are manually creating rosters for a credit recovery classroom where students come and go.  The result in Jamf Teacher?  A Jamf Teacher roster that is not alphabetized.  The credit recovery facilitator sees students who were in there “first” by the IT department’s selection and Save.  Each new student added just gets appended to the end of the Jamf Teacher roster in the Jamf Teacher app.  This makes it a mess for selectively adding or removing lesson restrictions for an individualized experience.

Has anyone figured a way around this?

It would make sense for the app to have a sort option built in, but it doesnt!

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mrsimon007
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  • January 24, 2026

This is a known limitation with Jamf Teacher when classes are created and managed manually. Since the app doesn’t currently offer a built-in sorting option, the roster order follows the sequence in which students are added. The only practical workaround some teams use is recreating the class in the desired order or managing rosters upstream through synced data instead of manual entry. Clear documentation and planning around roster management can help reduce friction in setups like this.

ajbabcock
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  • January 24, 2026

Are there alternatives to Apple School Manager syncing, though?  What are other roster management options?

ajbabcock
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  • January 27, 2026

the roster order follows the sequence in which students are added. 

 

So, I just made a new roster by hand, clicking the names alphabetically and then clicked Save.  The names on the iPad app are a jumbled mess.  

So, when you say “students are added” is this TO Jamf itself?  Clearly, I’m not able to even do this by a manual data entry of checking boxes in a fresh list in the order I want them to display.

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