Apple Configurator - setting up carts
I am trying to fine tune my instructions on how to setup iPads on a Bretford cart. Any feed back would be great.
Thanks
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- Make sure that no iPads are plugged in
- Make sure you have your itunes account setup
- Authorize you iTunes account on the computer that you will be using to manage the iPads
- Download your free and paid Apps
(make sure you use the same iTunes Apple ID in iTunes as you do in Apple Configurator) - Quit iTunes
- Connect all iPads in the cart
- Open Apple Configurator
- Go to Prepare tab
- Under Settings
Name iPad (I give it the teachers name and a - mark, I add the numbers in step 6)
Supervision: ONCheck box Allow devices to connect to other Macs (this is helpful when a teacher wants to download a movie off student iPad onto their teacher computer)
iOS should be Latest
Check box Erase before installing
Restore: Don’t Restore BackupCheck profile(s) - (this is where you add your wifi network and restrictions) - Hit the Prepare button (this is going to take about an hour)
- Quit Configurator
- iTunes Sync
- Open iTunes
- The Welcome to Your New iPad screen will appear
- Click on Setup as New iPad, hit Continue
- Click on Get Started
- You must do this for each iPad
- Quit iTunes
- Name the iPads
- Open Configurator
- Go to the Supervise tab
- Name the iPads (it is easier to pull the all out, and plug one at a time to name)
The iPads do not show up on the list in the order that they are plugged in
- Preparing the Master iPad (use iPad #1)
- Remove iPad #1
- Go through the registration sequence
- Go to Settings
- Go to Restrictions
- Turn on
We use the same code for all of our carts - Turn off the ability to delete apps
We add the code so that they students cannot add a code themselves and lock us out of the iPads
- Plug back in iPad
- Go to the Apps tab
- Add any new apps and VPP codes
- Check all boxes
- Hit Refresh (this takes over an hour depending on how many apps you are installing)
- Remove iPad and put Apps into folders (examples below of what we did for our school)
- Apple
- Chinese
- Mathematics
- Science
- Spanish
- Grade level folder
- Put main folders in the Dock (Apple, Mathematics, Grade level folder)
- Plug in iPad #1
- Do a backup, under the Prepare tab
- Click on iPad #1
- Click on the Settings tab
- Click on Restore and select Back Up...
- Name the backup (it would be a good idea to add the date)
- Clone iPads
Click on Supervise tab
- Click on All iPads (#)
- Click on Apps tab
- Check all boxes for the Apps
- Under the Restore select your backup
- Click Refresh (this should take about an hour)
- Once they have all image, make sure you change the Restore option back to Don’t Restore Backup