Episode 32: iOS 10.3 and Classroom 2.0 with Fraser Speirs

MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 32: iOS 10.3 and Classroom 2.0 with Fraser Speirs

Synopsis

This week we welcome iOS Admin/Luminary Fraser Speirs to the pod to talk about the new iOS Admin features in iOS 10.3, Classroom 2.0 with ad-hoc classes, and the future of iOS for admin uses.

Your Hosts:

• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
• Adam Codega, IT Administrator [@adamcodega]

Our Guest:

• Fraser Speirs, Apple Distinguished Educator & Head of Secondary, Cedars School. [@fraserspeirs]

Listen!

Links & Notes

Blog: Speirs.org
Regular podcasts: Canvas & Out of School

iOS 10.3

Apple Classroom 2.0

iOS 10.3

• New restrictions
• Limit Wifi to specified networks
• New OS update rules
• No longer requires supervision and DEP, just supervision
• New MDM commands – InstallASAP – starts to nag the user
• Apple Classroom Built In
• MDM-enabled Lost Mode can play sounds

Apple Classroom 2.0

• No longer requires MDM support or supervision on pupil devices
• Ad-hoc handshaking
• Pupils can refuse screen and Airplay control or locking control.
• The notion of a “current class”
• Appears as AirPlay target
• Manual groups in the class also appear

Thoughts on iOS 11

Neil Cybart: The Mac is Turning Into Apple’s Achilles’ Heel

• The world is moving past the Mac whether iOS is ready or not.
• iPad urgently needs to accommodate some proportion of “pro” users
• Article notes that 70% of the Mac user base rarely/never touch a “pro app”.
• These people should be on iOS already.

Future of Workflow?
Whither Sal Soghoian?
Canvas 22: Workflow: The Basics
Canvas 23: Workflow: Variables & Built-In Actions
Canvas 24: Workflow: Third Party Actions
Canvas 25: Workflow: Web APIs
Canvas 26: Workflow: Advanced Workflow Programming
Canvas 27: Workflow: Advance Workflow Programming Part II
Canvas 29: Workflow: Magic Variables

Next steps of Swift Playgrounds

• API expansion already happening (MapKit)
• Aggressively tracking language standard
• Authoring on iOS enhanced in last update (author multi page Playgrounds)
• Needs a UI builder?
• Multi-file project support
• Look to Pythonista

TapTyping – typing trainer suite – Flairify LLC

Theft & Loss Recovery

Theft & Loss Recovery for iOS Users

• Encrypted iCloud Backups after iOS 10 are awesome.
• Lost Mode for MDM-capable devices is great (as long as they have cellular or know a lot of Wi-Fi networks)
• Building a trusted system requires that you need not just one great password, but a couple good ones.
• (I always know my Apple ID password, login password, and 2FA Backup passwords, the rest I leave to Keychain)
• Can a password-less future get here soon enough?

1:1 Program History:

The iPad Project: How It’s Going
The iPad Project: Day One
The iPad Project Day Two
The iPad Project Day Six: The Hamiltonian Cycle
The iPad Project: The Night Before Christmas
The iPad Project: What Kind Of Day Has It Been?

Community Calendar

Call for Presenters

X World – 29 30 June (CFP open until 24th April)

Conference Sites

Aces Conference in Phoenix, AZ May 31 – June 1
MacDevOps:YVR in Vancouver, Canada Jun 4-6 17
MacDeployment in Calgary, Canada Jun 8-9 17
PSU Mac Admins in State College, PA July 11-14
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26

Meet-ups

Boston’s Spring Meet-up – 19th April
Philly Apple Admins
London Apple Admins @ Sony Music – 20th April
Schiedam, the Netherlands – Dutch Macadmin meetup – April 20, 1:30-4:30
Melbourne Apple Admins – May 4th @ CultureAmp –
Leiden, the Netherlands – May 18th – 6 PM

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