This qualifies as both nifty and helpful.
Over at Apple’s education event, the company has announced that teachers and students will receive 200GB of free iCloud storage, a forty-fold increase over the 5GB typically offered for the free tier of iCloud.
“iCloud safely stores students’ documents and creative projects, keeping them up to date, secure and accessible from any device,” the company said in a statement after the event. “And starting today, any teacher or student with a Managed Apple ID has access to 200GB of free iCloud storage.”
The additional storage should assist in hosting files created by the future releases of both Schoolwork, and Classroom, a pair of features expanding from the iPad to the Mac later in 2018. The cloud-based Schoolwork app lets teachers digitally pass handouts to students and set up assignments for them to complete. Notes, PDF documents, and web links can be sent to students using the iPad app, with teachers able to monitor their progress and receive assignments back once they are completed.
Apple stated that it plans to release the Schoolwork app come June.
Classroom, which has been around for two years as an iOS app, allows teachers to manage students’ iPads by automatically connecting to them. The app can remotely open apps, launch websites, or access books, with educators also able to remotely monitor the student’s screen, and to lock all devices to refocus the student’s attention.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via AppleInsider