Today's Apple event seemed to be focused on the application of the iPad in the educational world, as well as new gadgets focused on the use of the iPad by the youngest. When we got to the middle of the presentation we found that the Mac still has a place in schools.
Classroom app, traditionally from iOS, comes to Mac, in beta version from June, to be 100% available from the beginning of the new course. But the news does not end there. We will also see a ClassKit API and a new Education Apps section in the Mac App Store.
Starting with the application pool, it has been introduced school work thought for the creation and distribution of material of: study, files or works, on the part of the professors towards the students. It allows teachers to create and manage PDF files, links, as well as a wide variety of documents. These jobs will be stored in the cloud and the entire education ecosystem is integrated into the environment created for this purpose in ClassKit. Teachers can control the progress of each student for each task independently.
To keep all this material updated, students enrolled in certain centers will get 200GB in iCloud.
The second novelty, ClassKit, is a new API for the development of student apps. Within Apple applications, it will support Swift, Garageband, iWork, among others.
To learn all this, Apple will promote training in its Apple Store and specific programs such as "Apple Teacher" This learning program is available in the cloud and wants to awaken skills among teachers, as well as draw work plans with students and be inspired to create new playful and imaginative tasks. In the program, teachers will be awarded gold star badges each time they achieve an achievement. It is an original way for Apple to promote training, especially for those who, in turn, must train others.
