What's new in education

Description: For over 40 years, Apple has been working with educators to create technologies for students, teachers, and school administrators and help them share in a rich and meaningful learning experience. Explore the breadth of Apple's education technologies, including classroom management apps and tools and developer frameworks for assessment and curriculum integration — and discover how your app can have a critical role in them all.

What's new in Schoolwork

Schoolwork makes it easy for teachers to share materials, assign activities and track student progress.

new design
handout library
handout detail view
support for new activity metadata

If you want your app to integrate with Schoolwork, use the ClassKit framework

What's new in ClassKit

ClassKit Catalog:

a central store of your app's public Activities
using a web API, you can publish your Activities and they will be available from the Activity Chooser
includes new metadata fields

What's new in Apple School Manager

Apple School Manager (ASM) is Apple's web-based portal for schools to manage accounts, devices, and content, all from one place.

classes created in ASM are automatically available in Classroom
any updates in ASM are synced down to both Classroom and Schoolwork
allow managed Apple ID

What's new in Classroom

AirPlay class invitation
Pinch to zoom student screens

What's new in Shared iPad

Shared iPad Temporary Session:
- enables schools to deploy devices with standard configurations that students can use without sign-in credentials.
- all data is removed on sign out

Automatic Assessment Configuration

Automatic Assessment Configuration (ASC) is a new framework used to tests.

Thanks to ASC schools can now leverage the power of the Mac, while at the same time preventing students from using features that could give them an unfair advantage.

Features:

Unified macOS and iOS API
Catalyst support
Restrict specific system features

You need to apply for a new entitlement in order to use this framework.