At Apple Education, we’re excited to be part of MACUL 2024 and look forward to sharing this journey with you. Apple Education’s dedicated visionary leaders will guide interactive sessions on diverse topics and provide you with great ideas, tools, and resources.
Connect with the Apple Team — learn, explore, and be inspired.
Explore content from the sessions below.
Wednesday, March 13
Connect with Apple For IT
Connect with Apple Education to discuss powerful ways to manage, deploy, and support technology in education.
- macOS Security Compliance Project
- macOS Security Compliance Project
- Mac Evaluation Utility
- Use secure token, bootstrap token, and volume ownership in deployments
Connect with Apple For Coaches
Connect with Apple Education specialists to discuss powerful ways to integrate technology, learning, teaching, and leadership. Explore coaching best practices and get the latest tools and resources.
- Apple Learning Coach
- Download the Apple Teacher Portfolio template
- Engage more in the Coaching area in the Apple Education Community
Thursday, March 14
What’s New in Education for Teachers
Great teachers and effective technology are a powerful combination. Apple is committed to providing innovative solutions for the classroom that put the power of technology to work. Learn about the newest Apple products, tools, and programs for education.
- Fantastic Freeform — Check out this great post by Zoey Penwarden
- Add 3D Objects in Keynote on Mac or iPad
- Translate text, voice and conversations on iPad
- Create a personal voice on iPhone, iPad, or Mac
- Use Live Text to interact with content in photo of video on iPad
- Use Continuity to work across Apple devices
Deploying iPadOS
Discover the latest platform changes for deploying iPadOS in your education organization. Learn about deploying both organization-owned and personally-owned iPad. Explore fundamentals and new updates for deployment workflows including enrollment, ongoing management, content distribution, and re-deployment.
- Account-driven Device Enrollment
- Enforcing a minimum version of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS
- Return to Service for iPhone and iPad
- Engage more in the Deployment & Management area in the Apple Education Community
Best Practices for Integrating and Enhancing Creativity in the Classroom
Creativity is critical to effective problem-solving, analytical thinking, and collaboration. But it can be challenging to clearly define —much more cultivate — in the classroom. Join us for an immersive, hands-on experience with Apple Distinguished Educators to experience activities that will engage learners across the curriculum.
- Everyone Can Create Projects
- Everyone Can Create Student Portfolio Template
- Creativity in Learning Report
- Engage more in the Creativity area in the Apple Education Community
Finding the Right Balance: Strategies for Engaging Early Learners with Technology
What do you expect learning to look like for your youngest students? And how can technology play a role? Join us for a discussion about how the use of technology should be intentional and natural, as well as age-appropriate, to meet the abilities of each learner. We’ll also explore how iPad can help your youngest students communicate, create, and learn at their own pace.
- Document Observations in Slow Motion
- Capture Actions Shots with Burst Mode
- Photo Markup
- Live Text
- Pages Presenter Mode
- Keynote Live Video
- Engage more in the Literacy area in the Apple Education Community
What’s New for IT
Great teachers and effective technology are a powerful combination. Apple is committed to providing innovative solutions for the classroom that put the power of technology to work. Learn about the newest Apple products, tools, and programs for education.
- Test and defer software updates for Apple devices
- Service access with Managed Apple IDs
- Intro to content caching
- Intro to mobile device management profiles
- Engage more in the Deployment & Management area in the Apple Education Community
Friday, March 15
Deploying macOS
Discover the latest platform changes for deploying macOS in your education organization. Learn about changes to initial enrollment, ongoing management, and return to service, including managing software updates.
- Apple Platform Deployment
- Platform Single Sign-on for macOS
- Learn how Apple protects users with many layers of app security
- Learn more about Apple device and software encryption and Data Protection
- Engage more in the Deployment & Management area in the Apple Education Community
Creating Meaningful Vocabulary in the Content Areas
Move beyond memorization and unlock the transformative potential of teaching vocabulary in multimodal ways. Participants will delve into innovative methods involving video, drawing, and audio to nurture profound connections with subject-specific vocabulary. Learn how to empower students of all ages to take ownership of their learning journey through visual storytelling, artistic expression, and captivating auditory experiences.
- Animated Visual Vocabulary
- Level Up Vocabulary Instruction with KEYNOTE!
- Vocab Choice Board
- Elevating education: effective vocabulary instruction
- Vocabulary Workbook
- Engage more in the Literacy area in the Apple Education Community
Equitable Access in the Classroom: Strategies for Engaging Multilingual Learners with Technology
Multilingual learners have a range of learning styles and abilities and educators need technology and resources to accommodate and personalize learning. Apple builds accessibility features into every product, so everyone can use them in ways that work best for them. Join us to discuss how Apple allows all students and teachers to explore, communicate, and create.
Accessibility: Empowering All Learners
Given the range of learning styles and abilities of students today, educators need technology and resources to accommodate and personalize learning. Apple builds accessibility features into every product, so everyone can use them in ways that work best for them. Join us to discuss how Apple allows all students and teachers to explore, communicate, and create.
- Apple Accessibility
- Accessibility Support Videos
- “The Greatest” Accessibility Video
- “The Lost Voice”
- Engage more in the Accessibility area in the Apple Education Community
Attach up to 5 files which will be available for other members to download.