Macs in Education

Brainstorm 2022 – Practical Automation for Apple Devices

This post is a list of resources for my 2022 Brainstorm session, Practical Automation for Apple Devices. The slides are available here: Time Tracking Apps: Hourstack Timing Clockify Sunsama (Note – this is a referral link) Stopwatch and calendar AutoPKGr Resources: Download AutoPKGr – The source. Make sure to check out the readme. AutoPKGr for […]

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Setting An Apple Silicon Recovery Lock Password Through the Jamf API

In Big Sur 11.5, Apple introduced the ability to set a recovery lock password on Apple Silicon computers. This was a very welcome announcement, since many of us have been mourning the loss of the EFI firmware password that was so effective on Intel Macs. The firmware password was an important security feature, especially in

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Apple Classroom – Configuration Not Valid

In the past couple months, we have been getting reports of teachers randomly getting this error on their iPads: Configuration Invalid Classroom must be configured with a valid education configuration profile. Contact your network administrator for assistance. We were able to fix this by assigning the iPad to a different user and then assigning if

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Interactive Technology and the Classroom of the Future

Earlier this year, I gave a presentation at the Brainstorm 2021 virtual conference titled Life Beyond Interactive Whiteboards that chronicled our transition from interactive whiteboards to teachers using iPads as portable whiteboards they could use to present from anywhere. The conference session is still available on demand for another month if you attended the conference.

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How Silver Sparrow Got In One Locked-Down Computer

I will preface this by saying that I think that the hype about Silver Sparrow has been overblown. All the headlines make it seem scary, but the truth is that the malware doesn’t actually have a payload. Additionally, Mac’s Gatekeeper and XProtect services jumped on the malware very quickly, preventing it from running. That being

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