How/where do we enable supervised mode?

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How/where do we enable supervised mode?

We have about 160 iPads throughout our school. We have participated in Apple's DEP for 6-7 years now, and are currently using the Jamf School (formerly Zuludesk) MDM. We have previously used eSpark's Orchard MDM and before that we used Cisco Meraki's MDM.

Some of our iPads show as supervised but others are not. How/where do we enable supervised mode? I don't see that as an option in Apple School Manager, but maybe I'm just missing it.

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Posted on Nov 26, 2019 5:14 PM

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David_231

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Dec 11, 2019 4:42 AM in response to RichTCS

If you have enrolled all the devices using Apple DEP, I don’t see why they should not appear as supervised devices.

Every device purchased from Apple, its authorized reseller or an authorized carrier can be added to DEP (device enrollment program) where it is automatically supervised. Check if all your devices are purchased from these sources, else you’ll have to go for the manual supervision.

To manually supervise your iPads, use a Mac with Apple configurator 2 app and a lightening cable. Connect the device physically and you should be able to supervise it.

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Nov 28, 2019 10:03 PM in response to RichTCS

You could try going on to screen time

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