What’s new in iTunes U for web
Apple has been hard at work building the next generation of apps for both teachers and students:
Classroom turns your iPad into a powerful teaching assistant, helping teachers guide students through a lesson, see their progress, and keep them on track.
Schoolwork helps teachers save time and maximize each student’s potential by making it easy for teachers to share class materials, get students to a specific activity in an app, collaborate with students, and view student progress.
Apple also offers Apple School Manager to enable IT administrators to easily manage Apple devices, users, apps, and books while ensuring data is kept secure and private. Apps such as Pages, Numbers, Keynote, GarageBand, iMovie, Clips, and Swift Playgrounds have education-specific features that are used regularly by teachers and students.
iTunes U will continue to be available to all existing customers through the 2020-2021 educational year, but Apple will discontinue iTunes U at the end of 2021.
See iTunes U - May 2021 Update.
Apple to discontinue iTunes U at the end of 2021
Going forward, Apple recommends using Schoolwork. To help make the transition to Schoolwork easier:
Apple added support for ClassKit to the iTunes U app on iPad so you can easily transition to Schoolwork.
Use the app activity chooser in the Schoolwork app to assign your iTunes U content as activities in a Schoolwork assignment.
Apple provides download and export features in iTunes U for web.
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in your My Materials Library or course Materials pane to download materials from your existing iTunes U courses to use in Schoolwork assignments. Learn more.Click your instructor name at the top of the iTunes U window and choose Export Courses to export courses from iTunes U to use as assignments in Schoolwork. Learn more.