{"id":14064,"date":"2016-04-04T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14064"},"modified":"2016-04-04T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:02:07","slug":"apple-classroom-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/04\/apple-classroom-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Classroom First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.speirs.org\/blog\/2016\/4\/2\/1cb6akn3q5848c03d488ly2qrg6kqe\">Fraser Speirs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.speirs.org\/blog\/2016\/4\/2\/1cb6akn3q5848c03d488ly2qrg6kqe\">\n<p>Apple Classroom is not like <a href=\"https:\/\/classroom.google.com\/\">Google Classroom<\/a>. Google Classroom is roughly equivalent to Apple&rsquo;s iTunes U - a service that lets you share materials and content with students and receive, mark and grade assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Apple Classroom is more like a basic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/remotedesktop\/\">Apple Remote Desktop<\/a> for iOS. Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) was a Mac app that allowed administrators to monitor and manipulate multiple Macs remotely over the network. ARD was mostly a sysadmin tool but occasionally teachers would get into using it because of its ability to monitor and lock computer screens in a lab scenario. ARD was really too complex for classroom use.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The frame-rate on the full screen view of a student iPad is not very high at all. I would estimate it as about 1-2 frames per second (not a typo).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Achilles heel of Apple Classroom right now is its total reliance on Bluetooth. If you are a student, the simple way to hide from Classroom is simply to turn Bluetooth off. This results in a total defeat of the system and is clearly something that needs to be addressed in future configuration profile options.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraser Speirs: Apple Classroom is not like Google Classroom. Google Classroom is roughly equivalent to Apple&rsquo;s iTunes U - a service that lets you share materials and content with students and receive, mark and grade assignments. Apple Classroom is more like a basic Apple Remote Desktop for iOS. Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) was a Mac [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[422,235,31,1137,145],"class_list":["post-14064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bluetooth","tag-education","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-ipad"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14065,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14064\/revisions\/14065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}