Apple today launched the Schoolwork app, which is supposed to make the work of teachers easier

In the spring, Apple organized a special "school" keynote at which we saw the unveiling of the new iPad. Apart from that, however, the event was mainly dedicated to pupils and teachers. For the latter, Apple introduced the Schoolwork application at the time, which should make many practical tasks much easier for them. Today was the official launch.

The Schoolwork app is basically a "classroom manager" for every teacher. It enables mass or selective communication with students, assigning tasks, recording and recording grades and many other functions that make life easier for teachers in practice. The application can work with a variety of document formats, Internet links and many other tools that a teacher needs to contact his students. However, Schoolwork is not only a one-sided application, students can use its potential as well. With Schoolwork, students can track their grades, complete and uncompleted assignments, as well as contact teachers and ask for help, for example with homework.

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Schoolwork works with the Classroom app, so teachers can have a perfect overview of what their students are doing on their iPads. The entire ecosystem of learning tools and applications from Apple is quite sophisticated, as you can see for yourself special micro-site, which Apple established for these needs. The Schoolwork app is currently in the testing phase and can be expected to go live at the beginning of the next school year, together with the release of iOS 12.

In theory, this is a very successful and potentially hugely useful concept. The problem is that in order to use such tools meaningfully, the whole class needs to be compatible with them. So in practice this means that each pupil should have their own iPad with their own Apple ID. This is a relatively futuristic idea that can only work in a very small number of schools (mainly in the USA). However, if these conditions are met and both teachers and students are guided to work in this ecosystem, it must be a very interesting and interactive way of teaching. However, for most of us (or our [potential] children), this is a reality that is far in the distant future.

Source: Macrumors, 9to5mac