Classroom (Apple)

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Classroom for iPadOS
Developer(s) Apple Inc.
Initial releaseMarch 21, 2016 (2016-03-21)
Operating system iPadOS
Available in34 languages
List of languages
English, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Type Remote administration
License Proprietary
Website apple.com/education/teaching-tools/

Classroom is an iPadOS app, developed by Apple Inc., which allows teachers to view, remote control, and transfer files to students in their classes. [1] The app allows teachers to assign activities to students. [2]

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Schoolwork

Schoolwork for iPadOS
Developer(s) Apple Inc.
Initial releaseJune 26, 2018;5 years ago (2018-06-26)
Operating system iPadOS
Available in32 languages
List of languages
English, Catalan, Chinese (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Type Learning management systems
License Proprietary
Website Official website
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Schoolwork is companion app for Classroom, announced during Apple's edtech event in March 2018 and released in June 2018. [3] [4] [5] The free app allows teachers to distribute documents, iBook files, web links, and assignments through ClassKit (such as Kahoot! quizzes) with due dates. [6] [7] Students can hand-in those assignments via the app for teachers to view and provide feedback via the app. [8]

The app allows teachers to view what students are doing on their screen. [9] ClassKit allows developers of educational apps to create links for specific function in their application, which teachers can subsequently assign to students. [10] [11] It also relays the results of the student's actions back to the Schoolwork app to be shared with the teacher. [12]

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