Manage app usage
You can manage app usage on a student’s devices, including opening, locking and sharing information through various apps. Both you and the student must have the same apps on your devices.
Open an app on a student’s device
You can open an app for a student. To complete this task, both you and the student must have the same apps on your devices.
Open the Classroom app
on your Mac, then select the student.Click Open
in the toolbar, then do one of the following to open that app on the device of the selected student:Select an app in the list.
Enter the name of an app in the Search bar, then select the app.
Click Open to open the app on the student device, then click Done.
You can also choose to open the app on your own device.
To open an app for more than one student, see Open an app on the students’ devices.
Lock an app open (iPad only)
You can open an app on a student’s iPad and prevent the student from closing the app or opening any other app. To complete this task, both you and the student must have the same apps on your devices.
Open the Classroom app
on your Mac, then select the student.Click Open
in the toolbar, then do one of the following to open that app on the iPad of the selected student:Scroll to locate the app in the list.
Enter the name of the app in the Search bar.
Tick the box “Lock in app after opening”.
Click Open to open the app on the student’s iPad, then click Done.
To lock an app open for more than one student, see Lock an app open (iPad only).
Close a locked-open app (iPad only)
If you enabled “Lock in app after opening”, you must follow these steps to turn it off. To complete this task, both you and the student must have the same app on your devices.
Open the Classroom app
on your Mac, then select the student who had “Lock in app after opening” enabled.Click Unlock
in the toolbar to turn off “Lock in app after opening”, then click Done.
To close a locked-open app for more than one student, see Unlock devices locked to an app (iPad only).