The new iOS , that is the iOS 9.3 has seen many new features majorly aimed at aiding education. There are many education aiding features introduced. Features like shared iPads for students, a brand new app for classrooms, also an app that manages a school, named the Apple School Manager. An improvement in the “Manage Apple IDs” system is also implemented.
The new iPad sharing feature named “Shared iPad” is developed for scenarios where a 1:1 studenttoiPad ratio does not exist. Each student is given a unique AppleID which can be used by the student to login into any iPad in the classroom, with each iPad having all the requisite content available in it. Which shall facilitate the education as students can switch classrooms but the content of study shall be at their disposal at each time with all relevant content available by means of an intelligent cache system developed solely for this feature.
The other feature of this new iOS is the new Classroom app. This new app will let teachers guide the students at the same time. An interesting feature of this app is the Screen View, which will let the teacher see any student’s screen in real time, and hence monitor the student attention carefully and reduce student distractions.
The Apple School Manager an internet based feature which has been designed to give school admins a centralized system for creating Apple IDs , course creation and management of accounts of all teachers, students and administrators. This centralized management will make things easier for administrators in all schools.
Apple has been working on a major educational overhaul using its iOS devices like iPads and also Macs. These features have been released as a special iOS developers release, and in coming months might be available for all.
