Guided Access is a great feature on the iPad for when students are using apps in the classroom. Why I like Guided Access is that you can lock students into an app that does not allow them access to any other app. I also like that you can block out areas that you don't want them to use, for example: in-App purchases, connecting to the internet, or settings may be features in an app that I would not want my students to click on. In the art room, I often will have students using more than one app to create their digital art. If I was using Guided Access, this would not be possible without typing in the password every time. You could also run into the problem of students understanding how Guided Access works and that they may set it up and lock the iPad into an app and the teacher wouldn't know the password, which made it so you couldn't turn Guided Access off. I'm sure there is some way around that, but my son came home yesterday and said that this happened in his 4th grade classroom and that his teacher was pretty upset about it and no one would admit to it so that they could find out the password. I would be most likely to use the Guided Access with kindergarten and first grade, I think. But using Guided Access would limit us to just creating things and not having evidence of them. A lot of the apps we use, I end up taking screenshots of what they make...and I noticed that in Guided Access you are not able to use that feature.
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