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Jamf School in K-12: What’s Working Well & What Needs Improvement?

  • January 12, 2026
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Corey-Ribble
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As this new K-12 Jamf School community gets going, I thought it would be helpful to start an open discussion around everyone’s real-world experiences specifically with Jamf School (not Jamf Pro).

This thread is intentionally focused on Jamf School workflows, features, and challenges in K-12 environments. While Jamf Pro has plenty of existing discussion spaces, this is meant to give Jamf School admins a place to share what actually applies to their day-to-day work.

I’d love to hear from fellow admins about anything that’s on your mind related to Jamf School. The list below is just meant to help get the conversation started—you don’t need to limit your thoughts to these topics at all:

  • What Jamf School features or workflows you rely on and like

  • What you wish worked better or differently in Jamf School

  • Any current Jamf School–specific issues or limitations you’re running into

  • Areas where documentation or guidance feels lacking

  • Wins, workarounds, or lessons learned using Jamf School in K-12

If there’s something else you’re thinking about—big or small—feel free to bring it up. Questions, ideas, frustrations, and success stories are all welcome.

Whether you manage a small deployment or a large district, every Jamf School perspective helps. The goal isn’t just to vent, but to learn from one another, share practical solutions, and help shape better conversations—and hopefully improvements—around Jamf School moving forward.

Jump in wherever you’re comfortable. Even a short comment can be helpful to someone else.

Looking forward to the discussion.

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    red_beard
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    • red_beard
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    • January 20, 2026

    Here are some Improvements I’d like to see that come to mind. If you see something in my list that is possible already please let me know!
     

    1. When selecting multiple devices, showing them all on screen for group actions or changes to be applied to.
    2. Search for multple devices at once (e.g. Like pasting in multiple serial numbers separated by commas into the search field. Similar to Jamf Pro).
    3. Customize dashboards.

    4. Update the device record so that both the location and the assigned user (owner) can be changed in a single edit and saved once, instead of having to:

      1. Change the location and save

      2. Reopen Edit Details

      3. Assign a new owner and save again

    5. Student and Teacher app - App redownloading: If a student or staff deletes an app that was pushed out to their iPad home screens, it doesn’t appear in the Student App or Teacher app for redownloading.

    6. Show all groups a device belongs to regardless of which location (top-level) or specific location you are viewing the device record in.

    7. Jamf Teacher - blocklist functionality instead of just allow lists. The allow list route is complicated once you involved embedded content in different LMS systems. Making it very onerous for a teacher to try and allow all the content. I’m surprised Jamf Parent can do this but not Jamf Teacher app.

      Corey-Ribble
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      • Corey-Ribble
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      • February 3, 2026

      The biggest issue i have with Jamf School lately is the “Notification Center”. With there update where bulk commands or exports get placed in there with a Notification, and you can’t clear or resolve them. So i currently have 76 unread notifications when i open jamf. I have already missed important notifications for our tokens, but Jamf doesn't have a time frame on when it will be fixed and can’t clear them from the back end. 

       

      If you have this issue to and would like to try and push a fix higher up there list, here is Jamfs internal ticket number for this issue. PI140156

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        • ryan_w
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        • February 11, 2026

        Jamf School for the most part does what we need.  Here are some things I’d like to see improved.

        1. The ability to schedule OS updates.  For example I would like to have the system try to push out new OS updates weekly on Thursday at 3pm without me having to kick it off each week.  Teachers and students just don’t like to run updates, so we really need an easy way to try to keep things patched better.  Thankfully DDM based updates are working better at least.  
        2. The ability to copy configuration profiles from a child location back to the parent one.
        3. The ability to export the user installed software inventory globally would be nice for auditing.
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