Summary
- Before proceeding through the Jamf School Setup Assistant, have the following items ready:
- Access to your school’s instance of Apple School Manager
- An institutional Apple Account (formerly known as an Apple ID)
- The Setup Assistant helps to guide you through some of the first configuration steps in Jamf School.
- In the first step of the Setup Assistant, follow the instructions to set up the Apple push certificate.
- The Apple push certificate is used to allow Jamf School access to Apple’s Push Notification Service (APNs).
- The Apple push certificate must be renewed every year before it expires.
- Set up a calendar reminder that reoccurs every 11 months to remind you and your teammates to renew it.
- In the second step, you can create users in Jamf School.
- Users in Jamf School are any faculty, staff, students, or teachers that used devices managed by Jamf School.
- In the Setup Assistant, users can be created using a CSV file or this step can be skipped by selecting Manually Create in Jamf School.
- More users can be created later in various ways, including syncing users from Apple School Manager.
- In the third step, you can set up an enrollment method.
- Enrollment is the process of getting devices into Jamf School for management.
- Devices can be enrolled automatically or through several different manual methods.
- In the fourth step of the Setup Assistant, follow the instructions to distribute apps and books with Jamf School.
- Using Apple School Manager to distribute apps and books allows us to get licenses for various content and deploy them automatically to devices.
- The content token used for this integration needs to be renewed every year. We recommend renewing it when you go to renew your push certificate.
- In the final step, you can create a profile.
- Profiles allow us to enforce settings on devices.
- They can be used to configure Wi-Fi, enforce restrictions and passcode requirements, and more.
