 Hello, I am Bianca Basher. I'm a first-grade teacher with Ori County Schools. Today, we are going to be exploring Apple Classroom. It's a digital tool that teachers can use in their classroom to monitor their students working on their iPads. I'm going to highlight some important features so you can get started with Apple Classroom. So let's get started. After you've downloaded the app, begin by launching Classroom. Then, next, you're going to add a new class. So you can select the plus button on the screen in the middle or in the top corner. This screen shows all of my other classes that I have and you can have multiple classes in Apple Classroom. So I'm going to click the plus. I'm going to give my class a name and then I'm going to select an icon for my class. You can even change the color of the icon and then you're going to click done. The next thing that you're going to need to do is you're going to need to add students to your class. So you're going to open the classroom and you're going to click invite students and then you're going to give your students the code on this screen to invite them into the classroom. Now, I just want to make you aware that since you've manually created the class, your students' iPads are going to have to be in proximity to your iPad. And so what you'll do is your students will go into the settings app and on their own iPad and under the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, the classroom will pop up when it's in there. And then what they'll do is it'll say new class invitation and they're going to click add first grade, which is the name of the class, and then they're going to type in the code 7292 and they're going to click add on their iPad screen. And then the students who have added themselves successfully to your class will pop up on your screen. And then you're going to click the add button on your screen and then they will be added to your classroom. So I'm going to add some more students to this class and then I'll come back and we'll get started with some of the features. Okay, so here we are. I have all of my students added into my classroom and once they are all added, you can see the list of students with their icons. At the top, you're going to see an action list of all the different features that Apple Classroom has and I can also see underneath of that what each screen my student is on. So right now all of my students are on their home screen. So in my actions list at the top, the first one is open. If I click open, I can send all of my students to a particular app on their iPads. And so if I want to send them to seesaw, I can tap the seesaw app. And it's going to open seesaw on all of their iPads automatically. If I wanted to actually see their screens, I can tap the screens icon at the top and it's going to show me what each of those students screens look like on their iPads, which is a really nice feature because sometimes I need to make sure that they're all on the same screen when I'm giving directions and that is very helpful. Another nice feature is the navigate. So I can click on navigate. And if I want to send my students to a particular website and safari, I always need to make sure that that site is saved into favorites here. And so I want to send them to Orie County Schools. So I click that and it's going to send them all to the Orie County Schools homepage. So you can send them to different websites to using the navigate. One nice feature also is the lock button. When I'm trying to give my directions, my students, they really want to just get on and do the work right away and not really hear all of my directions. So one thing that is nice about lock is I can click the lock button and it's going to lock all of my screens. And on the students screen, it's going to show that lock icon. And it says this lock has been blocked by Mrs. Basher, which is a really nice feature. And then another thing that I can do as well is I when I want once I'm ready for them to begin, I can unlock their screens by clicking the unlock button. So those are some really great features as well. Another one that I enjoy is if you just want to click on and see one particular student screen, I can tap that students screen and I can click a view screen and it's going to show me their screen really big. That will help me to help them navigate something from a distance. Also, I can lock individual students screen so I could lock this one particular student screen by clicking that. And it's going to just allow their screen to be locked. And then I can also unlock it. Finally, I can send just individual students and by opening apps for them and navigating to certain websites for them as well. And then another feature is I can actually mute their iPads. So sometimes when kids iPads get really loud in the classroom or they turn the volume all the way up and you need them to be quiet, you can mute them yourself. And so these are some really great features of Apple Classroom. I will use it in my classroom every day. And I hope this video helped you so that you could begin to use Apple Classroom in your classroom. So again, that's how you can use Apple Classroom to help manage your student devices in your classroom. There are so many other features. So I hope you enjoy and get started using Apple Classroom. And please subscribe and check out our other videos. Thanks for watching.