Classroom does not appear in System Preferences

Hi Peter, I had the same issue, here is what one my sys admins figured out.

Apple School Manager needs to be involved.

The student device needed to be a shared device with a managed apple id, you have to signin to the device with the managed apple id.

The teacher device does not need to be a managed device.

Hope this helps.

Be sure to click the ADD STUDENTS icon on the teacher's laptop. When you do that the join code should be displayed on the teacher's screen and at that point CLASSROOM should appear in System Preferences on the student laptops (assuming student laptops are running OSX 10.4.4 or later). Our teachers create classes manually (not via our MDM) and our students do no have Apple IDs.

Had the same issue this morning. In the end I just did a spotlight search for "classroom", picked the top search result which was "Classroom", and then it showed up in System Preferences and I could see the classes I had set up. Hope that helps.

The suggestion of searching for "classroom" in spotlight did not resolve my issue, instead it brought up a different error message which read: "You can't open the "Classroom" preferences pane because it is not available to you at this time."

Smaller font below it reads: "To see this preferences pane, you may need to connect a device to your computer."

Yes this is a 10.14.4 system.

I thought that if I create a classroom on the Mac first and connect an iPad to it then it might load the necessary Classroom utility into System Preferences. So I followed Apple's how to instructions and found that my fully patched iPad does not have the Classroom utility in the "settings" either... So I am not able to connect the iPad to the Mac...

Not sure where to go from here.