Hi, guys. I work at a school where we use iPads for music education. We’ve got a bit of an issue though. Some kids delete other people’s music projects, and that obviously sucks.

Is there a way to lock certain files so the kids can give their own files their own password protection or something so nobody gets their stuff sabotaged?

Other creative solutions are appreciated as well!

Thanks guys!

Edit: The music room has a Mac, so thanks to your helpful suggestions, we’re gonna try with the AirDrop method where they drop to the host machine that the teacher has access to.

  • @[email protected]OP
    2•3 months ago

    Oooh, excellent idea. I’ll look into viability of airdropping. Most of our current machines at work are windows machines, so… while it probably could work, ease of use is also an important aspect when so many of the teachers are a step below tech savvy.

    Not to mention ease of use for the pupils who are often even more tech illiterate.

    I’ll look into it. Thank you!

    • @[email protected]
      1•3 months ago

      I don’t know this for sure but getting airdrop to work on a win machine might not result in the most stable solution - it looks like most of the solutions are open source projects which are fun but idk if I would personally trust them to be working 100% of the time when you need it at the end of class.

      I think it’s a decent option to consider if you can get your hands on an actual Apple device to test with, imho. Airdrop is fairly proprietary and made hard to integrate with by Apple on purpose in my opinion. The other thing to consider is how big the files are - if you use an airdrop receiver you will need enough space on it to hold everyone’s files.

      I really liked the email idea someone had too - if the students have their own email addresses they could email their projects to themselves. Same consideration there though, if the files are too big you might piss off the IT guy.

      Two more spitballs-

      Do the students have any network storage that the IT guy could help get mapped on the ipads?

      Does the school have any remote learning type software that students can turn assignments in electronically? Could see if that software has an ipad app that adds a “share to” option when exporting a project? Long shot but maybe

      • @[email protected]OP
        2•3 months ago

        Upon further inspection; The music teachers already have a Mac there, so setting up AirDrop is honestly a wonderful idea that we’ll look further into. Thank you so much!