Why do I need this?Let's start with that Why. Really its because teachers have a high workload, and we want to help you reduce that, Jamf Teacher will support you in your use of technology, from restricting access to tools on the iPad, limiting apps ... View more
Hello. I will be preparing iPads very soon for next school year. The K-2 teachers would like auto-capitalize turned off as it defeats the purpose of teaching when to use them. This involves 200+ iPads. Worse comes to worse I could do it individually ... View more
Hello, We have Jamf Pro for a large group of macbooks for high school students. The students often forget the password to get into their device, and there is no simple fix to reset that currently. Our current method is to back up the home user folder... View more
I know secure tokens get a lot of airtime around here but I wanted to know if anyone has any solution to granting secure tokens from an execution Policy payload. I am managing 500 machines for a school. A large issue I am having is the inability for ... View more
We are currently using Lightspeed Relay for our 1:1 Middle School iPad program. We've been having a major issue with YouTube. We had to basically block all of it for students because the iOS Relay Smart Agent doesn't content filter the videos and you... View more
After the Webinar last week I really wanted to incorporate Chrome Cloud Managed Browsers to improve workflow. Following all instructions I created the Tokens and put in a specific named Config policy with Application and Custom settings. I successful... View more
Hello Jamf Nation, Has your district piloted or implemented the Jamf Assessment app? Whether it was helping one student or many, I’d love to hear from you! Reply here, send me an email (Sam.Weiss) or hit me up on MacAdmins Slack (jamf_sam). I’ll like... View more
Hey all,We are starting to look at services like dyknow and Impero to help our staff remotely manage the student devices and I just wanted to check if anyone is using those (or others) and what your experience is like? Gabe ShackneyPrinceton Public S... View more
Hi All, I am looking to overcome an issue that I have when using a prestage enrollment or any enrollment for that matter. When completing the OOBE I am asked to create a local administrator account, which tends to be a service account that I have bee... View more
Hello Jamf Nation! As you may have noticed, we began making some larger-than-normal changes to Jamf Nation, starting with My Assets and Jamf ID. Jamf Nation is the largest Apple IT admin community on the internet. With that, this community enjoys a h... View more
After 2 weeks now of "remote learning," I still have 1 issue that requires the family to drop the ipad off. Kids are disabling the ipad by entering the screen lock password wrong too many times. Actually, the last 2 it was a sibling that did it on pu... View more
Hello Jamf Nation! As most of the US and other Countries are facing school closures, I wanted to begin the dialogue between Teachers and IT Admins all across our Jamf Nation Community. Please use this post as a means of sharing your best practices fo... View more
Has anyone here done a mass migration from the old institutional Apple IDs to Managed Apple IDs? I manage the Apple devices at a school district, and I need to get about 500 staff members moved over to Managed Apple IDs, but I am concerned about the ... View more
I just wanted clarification on this:Devices with a Managed Apple ID logged into it can still get Activation Locked? View more
Hello everyone,I don't have a lot of experience so I need some help and guidance. I help managing about 500 Apple computers, a mix of laptops and iMacs. My College is part of a University, meaning we are under the umbrella of central IT. It is a requ... View more
Hello JN, Last year, I took a position at CU Boulder the Apple Labs Administrator. In addition to my day to day jamf duties, I supervise a handful of students. The team I inherited is great, but, members of the team are starting to graduate and I am ... View more
So, I just got into Jamf recently and am diving headfirst into DEP Macs. [I love it] One snag that I've hit so far is that whichever account I log into first becomes the MDM account and I cannot delete the account (Or apparently change the account af... View more
So we got the directive to start looking at becoming compliant with FERPA, CIPA and COPPA in our school district. We are going to look at a DPSS (Digital Privacy, Safety and Security) framework as a starting point. Any recommendations on a DPSS to lo... View more
Hi everyone, I'm new to my organization - I am a 60% computer science and 40% IT coordinator. I just started last September and 1/3 of our devices have JAMF, and 2/3 of our devices don't. The previous teacher was the only one who had knowledge of JAM... View more
Over the last few weeks I've seen some very cool posts by EdTech folks about apps that they consider critical or extremely useful for their students. Has anyone seen other interesting EdTech app bundles like these? https://www.smore.com/v1x90-ipad-ac... View more
