Configure locations in Apple School Manager

When you sign up for Apple School Manager, the first location is automatically created (called the primary location) and reflects your organisation name. As you expand your use to other schools, you can add more locations and edit their information. Additional locations can mirror physical locations or organisational units. Apps and Books can then be provisioned to specific locations. User roles such as Content Manager, Manager, Staff, Instructor and Student can be assigned to locations.

There are three roles that have privileges for managing locations: Administrator (the role with the most privileges), Site Manager and People Manager.

Search for and view location information

In some cases, such as integrating with a Student Information System (SIS) or uploading files, you will see connections made only by you.

In Apple School Manager , sign in with a user that has the role of Administrator, Site Manager or People Manager.
Select Locations in the sidebar, then select or search for a location in the search field. See How to search.
Select the location and view basic information about that location, including the default password policy for your users.
In some cases you’ll see connections made only by you.
Select your name at the bottom of the sidebar, then select Preferences to view more information about this organisation—for example, the Student Information Systems (SIS) you integrated with, the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) you configured, the Managed Apple Account configurations for your users and more.

Edit default password policy location information

Important: If you enter password policy information in the .csv file for your students, that value overrides this location’s password policy and any password policy previously set for your students.

If password_policy is left blank in the .csv file, the default password policy for the students (in that location) is used for new student accounts and remains unchanged for existing student accounts. The password policy can be set as follows:

In Apple School Manager , sign in with a user that has the role of Administrator, Site Manager or People Manager.
Select Locations in the sidebar, then select or search for a location in the search field. See How to search.
Select the Edit button , then change the default password policy.
Select Save.

Add a location

You can add locations. This is useful if you’re managing more than one school or campus.

In Apple School Manager , sign in as a user that has the role of Administrator, Site Manager or People Manager.
Select Locations in the sidebar, then select the Add button at the top of the window.
Enter the new location information, then select Save.

Edit a location

You can edit any location except the primary one. This is useful if you’re managing more than one school or campus.

In Apple School Manager , sign in with a user that has the role of Administrator, Site Manager or People Manager.
Select Locations in the sidebar, then select or search for a location in the search field. See How to search.
Select the location, then select the Edit button at the top of the window.
Edit the selected location, then select Save.

Delete a location

You can delete a manually created location. Before you do, all data must be transferred to another location. Locations created using your Student Information System (SIS) can’t be deleted using this task.

In Apple School Manager , sign in with a user that has the role of Administrator, Site Manager or People Manager.
Select Locations in the sidebar, then select or search for a location in the search field. See How to search.
Select the Delete button .
Make sure you want to delete the location. This action can’t be undone.
Select Delete.

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Apple School Manager User Guide