Mosyle School vs mBlock Blockly－STEM education

Mosyle School is an MDM solution designed exclusively for Education that streamlines the Apple device management process, simplifies iPad, Mac and Apple TV deployments for Schools and Districts, while ensuring students safely utilize devices for learning. It’s easy to set up, manage, and maintain, while being powerful enough to create the ideal learning environment for any School or District. THE BEST MDM SOLUTION TO GET THE MOST OUT OF ALL OF APPLE’S PROGRAM AND OS FEATURES: - Configure all management settings with Mosyle School to harness all Apple’s education features and deployment programs; - Connect Mosyle School with Apple School Manager, Device Enrollment Program and Volume Program Purchase to assign devices, apps, and configure device settings, apps, and books; - Get the most out of Apple’s Shared iPad and the Classroom App for iPad; UNIQUE & EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TOOLS: - Quickly eliminate any distractions from the devices; - Ensure student focus and attention is within the intended educational application; - Easily assess students during class to evaluate student progress; - Check compliance of student devices and solve any issues right in the classroom; - Customize and regulate student Internet access during class time; - Select apps allowed during class and remotely install them on student devices.
 AN ALWAYS-ON, CLOUD-BASED & SCALABLE SOLUTION TO SIMPLIFY DEPLOYMENTS: - Quickly take inventory and view reports of your device fleet in real time; - Shared management between IT Staff and Teachers; - Create time-based policies and restrictions – to work whether it’s before, during or after school; - Receive notifications when specific events occur across the managed device fleet; - Implement in any type of deployment model (BYOD, School Owned, 1:1 and Shared); - Rapid and easy device enrollment processes and flows; - Automatic load-balancing and fault tolerance across multiple Tier 3 data centers, with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. 
 *Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Mosyle School is designed to embrace and fully integrate with Apple’s new education features, and deployment programs (Apple School Manager, Device Enrollment Program and Volume Purchase Program). We're so excited with all the new possibilities we decided to include all necessary configuration with them in our basic, free plan. No hidden costs!

mBlock Blockly, renamed from the mBlock App, is a graphical programming software made by Makeblock for STEAM education. It introduces users to the world of robotic programming. Without any prior knowledge, users can start programming robots by playing through games; then they can personalize their mBots with newly-learnt programming skills. mBlock Blockly opens up new minds for children: by means of programming, mBlock Blockly introduces program solving strategies and ways to design a project. mBlock Blockly nurtures creative thinkers of the future with communications and hands-on projects. Features: * Learn programming at home, 10 minutes a day: have fun with mBot and courses as game levels designed by education professionals. * Easy, straightforward graphical programming: code as easy as playing with building blocks, with the globally-received graphical-programming language customized for the mBot. * Exciting game-based learning: complete challenging tasks, experience the joy of victory in a series of coding games, and fall in love with programming. * Scientific system for step-by-step learning: Learn step-by-step following our well-designed curriculum for robotics and programming. * Bring your mBot to life: turn your mBot into your personal robot with the Creative Mode and your powerful programming & robotic skills. And there's more: * Based on Blockly: the well-received graphical programming language * Mobile Exclusive: Support iPhone and iPad devices * Bluetooth Connection: Connect your robot by simple touching it * Offline Support: Work without Internet connection * Online Updates: Receive new course content automatically when connected to the Internet * Language support: for mBot: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Chinese Traditional；for mBot Ranger: English, German, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish, Japanese, Ukrainian, Simplified Chinese, Chinese Traditional * Professional Content Team: Professional game-based learning team designs and continually updates course content. * Professional Technical Team: Continuous software optimization ensures a stable user experience.