Preventing changes to settings on iPad

[emmanuelit]

Can I use Casper to prevent students from altering the settings on school owned iPads?

[John_Wetter]

Any specific ones you're looking for? You can set many restrictions in iOS through MDM and make the profile non-removable so they're stuck. This should do the trick for all the things Apple lets us manage.

[curullij]

Of course your students could always remove the MDM profile thus removing all of the profiles you've assigned to the device. To reduce the chance of that happening I would give the students strong incentives to keep the MDM profile on the device by rolling out something like WIFI settings via a profile.

[CasperSally]

There are also settings that MDM can't push that you need to set locally on each device, like blocking deletion of apps. You can set a restriction password to lock down certain settings.

The fact that apple hasn't updated the IPCU (and thus what MDM can manage) since iOS4 back in October, is a crime to the enterprise/educational market that has to manage these things.