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DEP and Device Apple ID's

  • May 6, 2014
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My Boss wants to have device Apple ID's, to which the students don't know the password.

Does anyone have a workflow like this setup they wouldn't mind sharing, that would be great.

My Boss' idea is because not all parents will want their kids to have an Apple ID, even if it's through the District. Which means the students can't do work in class, because we have been pushing iPad use in the Classroom. We are also moving to a more 1:1 approach and are a K-12 District.

My Boss is also worried that if the students know the password to the Apple ID, they will install games and not focus on class work. Is there any way to stop Games from being installed on devices? I haven't looked at the Student Apple ID part yet, simply because we haven't accepted the terms, so I am not sure if there is a way to prevent certain categories from showing up on these Apple ID's we create, or if it's still wide open for them to install whatever they want.

Thank you in advance, I appreciate any and all responses.

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    • lehmanp00
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    • May 6, 2014

    One of our sites did this. They just opened each iPad and made an Apple ID at the "Sign in with your Apple ID" screen.

    The have a spreadsheet with each ID, password and the S/N and Asset tag of each iPad.

    The names were like xxipad33@apple.com (or the old me.com)

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    • brandonusher
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    • May 6, 2014

    How long did it take them to do that? We would be looking at about 2,000-3,000 iPads to do this for.

    Also, how did they get past the Credit Card information?

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    • lehmanp00
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    • May 6, 2014

    Our District has been buying a few iPads at a time over the years. Not nearly that many all at once!

    They put in the Tech Coordinator's CC card and then logged into the Apple ID later and removed it.

    It works for them and they found the time.

    I guess you could premake the Apple ID's on the website, but the time involved is going to be huge no matter what you do.

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    • lehmanp00
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    • May 6, 2014

    And we did not have DEP over the last 4 years either, but DEP would shave some time off of the process I would think.

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    • brandonusher
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    • May 6, 2014

    Okay, thanks for the answers, I appreciate it :)

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    • freddiecox
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    • May 6, 2014

    Create an AppleID without a Credit Card: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2534

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    • Nick_Gooch
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    • May 6, 2014

    Sounds like it would be much easier for you to just use configurator and remove the app store. Then the only way to install apps is by plugging into the configurator computer and you don't need to create 1,000's of apple id's. Or you just make the students create an apple id. Talk with the handful of parents that don't want to and explain why students need them. If they are still against it then create an apple id for the few iPads that are against it.

    Sounds like a lot of unnecessary work to me.

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    • eric_benfer
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    • May 6, 2014

    Have you discussed strategies with the Apple Education SE for your school district?

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    • RWitt
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    • June 2, 2014

    Apple will not help you in this regard we need to start submitting bugs for this as Apple should allow blocking apps by genre from the App store as it has been an nightmare dealing with classroom management and games.

    The unofficial way we did this is to set up a cache server and block all ipa's the end result is if it is not on the cache server it gets blocked.

    Until Apple gets their act together and gives schools and companies options on controlling content we will have to use something like this. We worked with our engineer and didn't really get to far except having them tell us there is not much they can do.

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