Schoolwork vs Jamf Teacher
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Schoolwork
This app helps educators manage assignments, assessments, and class announcements, streamlining communication and tracking student progress. It allows for personalized instruction by providing insights into individual student performance and areas needing support or challenge.
- Create and send assessments
- Assign homework and study reminders
- Track student progress and performance
- Collaborate with students
- Provide real-time feedback
- Assign specific app activities
- Personalize instruction
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Schoolwork is an iPad app that helps teachers save time, identify trends, and maximize each student’s potential. Using Schoolwork, teachers can create and send assessments, assignments, class announcements, or study reminders. With Schoolwork, teachers can send any document or file as a classroom assessment. They can review and score student work, and analyze student performance per item. For assignments, teachers can easily share materials, send students to a specific activity in an app, collaborate with students, and view student progress. Teachers can see analytics, insights, and progress information on how students performed, making it easier to individualize instruction based on student needs. Students get one central place to see assessments, assignments, announcements, submit work, and view their own progress. Keep students focused and organized • Students have one place to go to see their assessments, assignments, and announcements • Students can see what is due this week, across all their classes • In Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, and other supported apps, students can submit homework right from within the app Collaborate and give real-time feedback • Easily collaborate with individual students or with the entire class in just a few taps • Add comments to students’ work while they’re working on an assignment, or after completing an assessment • Easily review and score assessments with or without points • Use Apple Pencil or your finger to mark up documents, assessments, PDFs, photos, and more Assign specific activities within an app • With apps optimized for Schoolwork, you can review an app’s list of assignable activities, then easily send one or more to a class or student • With a single tap, students are brought directly to the assigned activity within the app • For activities you assign in Schoolwork, you’ll be able to view student progress, including quiz scores, points earned, and time spent Personalize instruction • See a holistic view of a student’s progress, including submitted work and progress in apps, all in one place • Use student progress to find students who might need an extra challenge, or extra support • On assessments, use item-level data to identify trends and inform instructional next steps Get started easily • Your existing classes in Apple School Manager automatically show in Schoolwork • Easily create new classes yourself right from within Schoolwork Privacy In order for teachers to view student progress or activities they assign in Schoolwork, schools are required to enable the Student Progress feature in Apple School Manager. Student progress is only reported for teacher-assigned activities that students complete while using a school-provided Managed Apple Account. All student progress data is encrypted in transit and at rest. If a school does not opt in, teachers and students can still use Schoolwork without this feature. In order to provide and improve Schoolwork, Apple collects non-personally identifiable data about how users interact with the app.
Jamf Teacher
Empower educators with tools to manage student devices and learning environments. Control app access, install software, and create focused lessons or proctored exams. Enhance student engagement with personalized attention screens.
- Apply device restrictions
- Manage allowed apps and websites
- Install apps remotely
- Plan lessons
- Create proctored exams
- Use attention screens
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The Jamf Teacher app is designed for Jamf School and Jamf Pro MDMs, available on iPad and Mac devices, to provide teachers with the tools necessary to manage classes and students. Key features: • Apply restrictions to student devices • Choose allowed apps and websites during classes • Install apps directly within the app • Plan lessons in advance • Create proctored exams for individual students • Create remote classes • Use an attention screen with personalized messages to keep students focused
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Schoolwork at 3.4 against Jamf Teacher's 2.0. Schoolwork also leads on ratings volume (68 vs 4). Jamf Teacher's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Schoolwork holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Schoolwork has 68 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of Schoolwork's written reviews are positive against 14% of Jamf Teacher's.
Schoolwork ships an update every 3 months, Jamf Teacher every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Schoolwork | Jamf Teacher |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (68 ratings) — better | 2.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 17.6% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 167 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apple | JAMF Software |
Customer experience
Schoolwork
Jamf Teacher
In-app purchases
Schoolwork
No in-app purchases
Jamf Teacher
No in-app purchases
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