“Apple introduced its Schoolwork app for teachers and students at its Field Trip event in Chicago in spring 2018,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “The app promises so much for educators, but it may well prove itself outside the education sector as an on-boarding and training facilitator for human resources teams.”
“Schoolwork is kind of a digital class management app teachers can use to share tasks with students — they can send notes, PDFs, links to the web, and even activities that need to be transacted in other apps,” Evans writes. “Teachers can then use Schoolwork to monitor how pupils are progressing through the app, how they score, and their general attainment scores. They can also monitor time spent on tasks assigned within the app.”
“Think of the many different situations in which HR teams are tasked with trying to persuade employees to acquire new skills,” Evans writes. “In all of those cases, the kind of personalized training provided by the Classroom app could add a layer of efficiency to enable HR training tasks, while also empowering employees with a better way to acquire new skills in their own time and at their own rate of learning.”
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Why not? IBM could also use the platform to develop and market business solutions on their and Apple’s behalf.
Apple has a long track record of launching stuff related to education then forgetting about it. Later they euthanize it.
If you want orphaned software, buy Apple. Ask users of Aperture, Final Cut Pro, etc.
The school system that I am contracted to in a specialized teaching position just bought 9000 computers last year, mix of Dell laptops which are much better than they use to be, and Chromebooks which do well for what they are used for.
Even then, management of the new IT environment is different than it was two years ago, so the likelihood of ANOTHER big change is unlikely for at least 3 years due to the cost of changing even though its still Windows and Google.
I own one of the 8 year old MacBooks that I bought surplus from the school, have run it for 5 years, but I need also to run Windows (Sharepoint) for student documentation. So to think that somehow there is going to be this magic moment that takes us back to Apple is just a dream world.
The students who do high end work in graphics, etc use their own Powerbooks etc for that, self-taught at home in the apps of their choice, and in their own specialized areas are more qualified than the computer teachers who only have time to teach basic office apps.
That world works pretty well, all things considered, so as a taxpayer I am not going to lead some kind of charge for revolution. I do my HTML5 animations and web development on my own iMac 27 inch, would not, could not change to Windows for that and just don’t see the point in starting war that I would just burn up all my energy and time.
While not a bad idea to use the App for businesses, it would have to compete with more established products like Microsoft’s Sharepoint. A difficult task even if Apple also considers opening access to the lessons to other client platforms.