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My school district has Apple TV's in classrooms, and we're trying to prevent our managed student iPads from being able to AirPlay to them.  On the student device profile, we have AirPlay restricted to only known AirPlay destinations, and we left the destinations empty so that they have none available.  This isn't preventing them from being able to AirPlay to the Apple TV's.  They can still AirPlay with the code that appears on the AppleTV.  Is there another setting we're missing?  



 


We need to keep our student and teacher iPads on the same WiFi network for Apple Classroom, so using a different network for the student devices isn't an option for us. We'd also like to avoid putting passcodes/passwords on the AppleTV's because we have many teachers who travel to different schools and classrooms.  We could possibly start configuring Apple TV passwords with a similar convention, but sometimes when we do that, we just find it publicly posted in classrooms for substitutes, guests, traveling teachers, etc. We also have a lot of events after hours and don't want to block a legitimate presenter when no one is available to help.  


Has anyone else had this problem or know of a different solution? We do also manage our Apple TV's in Jamf School, so maybe we're missing something on the Apple TV profile.    

Are the devices supervised? That may be the problem?

Yes, all of the iPads and Apple TV's are supervised.  We've also looked for conflicting profiles that might have different restrictions, but that doesn't seem to be the problem either. 

I think leaving the destinations empty is not gonna work. I think you better put one non-existing name in the destination field will work better. The iPads will only try to the show the non-existing destination.

Our local school admins have asked us about this years ago when we first implemented iPad carts. The decision made was that this is a classroom management issue and not a tech issue. The reason is that our district allows students to present from their iPads and disabling AirPlay would eliminate that.


Students that did unauthorized Airplay were warned and any subsequent unauthorized AirPlay attempts were given some sort of penalty. Except the one kid that Rick-Rolled his class. That was too good to punish.


I do realize that every district admin is different, so you have to go with what yours is telling you to do. I'm just tossing out the thought that maybe they need to look at it from a classroom management training rather than a tech "fix".

Why not set a general password on the Apple TVs for AirPlay that could be given to teachers? Of course it would have to be one the students would have a difficult time deducing yet simple enough for teachers to remember, but if it's across the whole Apple TV fleet, the more they use the password the more they'll remember it. Just a suggestion

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