iPads for the student. There would be too much material that they could provide on the iPad, including school books for the semester / year. I might be short sighted here but I see it being much more valuable as a per-student device, at least in high school and beyond.
In a clinical environment, I could see picking up a hospital iPad to do your rounds. Not that it would be the ideal process but I could see that kind of a model with the iPad being clinic specific, not clinician specific. Have all the clinical data available via hybrid web app so the data stays in the clinical system but the user experience is the iPad’s local app’s responsibility. In that case, a multi-login could be a Medical Single Sign On experience where the user’s operational model **and state** is maintained between uses of any of the clinic’s ipads.
In the hybrid app case, it does not inhibit one-to-one iPad mapping but gives the option of some people grabbing an iPad from the clinical pool should they not have one. And it would provide a model where the Doc might have a personally owned iPad and use it… after all the data is on the clinical server and only the interface is on the iPad.
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On May 7, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Peter Link wrote: So, in the case of educational settings, classroom iPads with user-specific data on them would need to be backed up then restored before the next student could use them; ouch!!!
If I were a school IT person, I'd make a strong suggestion that they either buy iPads for each student or not make use of any application that stores student-specific data on the iPad.
On May 7, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Danziger, Alan D. wrote: Peter, that’s exactly how it is done – attach the iPad (or iPhone, or iPod) to someone else’s iTunes and it prompts with something along the lines of “Would you like to use this computer’s iTunes to sync with? Warning, this will remove everything currently on the device”. The user giving up the iPad could perform a backup with their iTunes, and then when they get it back, do a restore. “Unattended”, there’s a button under Settings -> General -> Reset, “Erase All Content and Settings” which basically reformats (I believe) the user data partition. After this, the device will need to be re-enabled by hooking it up to iTunes somewhere. From: fed-talk-bounces+aland=email@hidden [mailto:fed-talk-bounces+aland=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Peter Link Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 10:33 AM To: email@hidden Cc: Donald Williams; Walls, Bryan K. (MSFC-IS30) Subject: [Fed-Talk] Use of iPads by multiple people (started out as: Volume license for apps?) How are enterprise/educational people thinking about deploying the iPad? The iPhone was always a single user type device but the iPad lends itself a whole lot more to sharing. We share laptops for travel and often wipe out the previous user account, installing a new one for the next user. I imagine that could be done for the iPad as well, just deleting the user-specific information instead of restoring the entire system. How are emails, document, etc., stored on the iPad? Are they kept separately from applications? Can you wipe out a user without wiping out applications or is everything stored in the user's iTunes account? Speaking of iTunes, how are people managing iPads with iTunes. I assume everything is managed by iTunes per user (except for applications installed by the iPhone configuration utility). Would the easiest way to switch users be to sync to the new user's iTunes and restore their complete package? On May 7, 2010, at 7:17 AM, Walls, Bryan K. (MSFC-IS30) wrote:
We use a single profile for all of our users. Well, actually 3 profiles that go on all the phones. Part of the setup on each phone is to enter the user's information for the Exchange and wireless setups. So, though the profile is for multiple users, it's still only one user per device. The iPhone OS is really designed for a single user. If you want multiple users accounts, go to Mac OS X. On May 7, 2010, at 8:56 AM, Peter Link wrote:
Don, I've never seen the iPad or iPhone described as a multi-user platform but the Enterprise deployment guide does talk about the ability to configure profiles for multiple users (pg 30). "Many of the payloads allow you to specify user names and passwords. If you omit this information, the profile can be used by multiple users, but the user will be asked to enter the missing information when the profile is installed. If you do personalize the profile for each user, and include passwords, you should distribute the profile in encrypted format to protect its contents. For more information see “Installing Configuration Profiles” on page 40." I suggest you read through the two documents listed below, and the iPad Security Overview, and try things out to see what you get. I found out we're getting a few to "test" so we're going to have to go through the same research. Good luck and please report back what you find. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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