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Education groups

Education groups are device groups of type Education. They bundle policies that are automatically applied to the devices of participating students for the duration of a lesson. The group and its policies are prepared in the portal; in Relution Teacher, they are selected as Configurations in the lesson template. This makes it possible to roll out even extensive MDM settings only while the lesson is running.

How it works

For an education group, only the policies are configured. Relution manages membership automatically through lessons: the devices of participating students are added when a lesson that uses this group as a configuration starts and removed when it ends. Devices cannot be assigned manually to this group type, and no filter is evaluated. The teacher’s devices do not become members of the group.

  • When the lesson starts, the student devices are added to the group and receive the linked policies.
  • During the lesson, the assignment is updated as soon as students are added or removed. If the configurations of the running lesson are changed, the student devices are added to the newly selected education groups and removed from the deselected ones.
  • When the lesson ends, the devices are removed from the group again and the policies no longer apply.
Infrastructure policies such as Wi-Fi should not be distributed through an education group: they would be withdrawn from the devices when the lesson ends.

Creating an education group

Education groups are created like other device groups under Devices → Device Groups using Add. Education is selected as the Group type. The desired policies are then assigned to the group. The Education type is only available with an Education or Free license.

If an existing static or dynamic device group is later switched to Education, Relution removes all previous devices from the group when saving. The linked policies therefore no longer apply to these devices.

The name, description and linked policies are displayed in Relution Teacher. Meaningful names and descriptions therefore make the selection easier during lessons.

General information on device groups: Device groups →.

Permission for teachers

Which teachers can see and select configurations is controlled by the read permission Education → Lesson Device Groups in the role editor. It complements the Education → Use Teacher App permission; both are required to select configurations. Without this permission, no configurations are displayed in Relution Teacher. It is already included in the predefined roles that allow the use of the Teacher App. Custom roles do not receive it automatically; there, Education → Lesson Device Groups is added manually if required.

More on roles and rights: Permissions →.

Use in Relution Teacher

In the lesson template, the Configurations area lists the organization’s education groups with their name, description and linked policies. One or more configurations can be selected. If no education group exists, the note No configurations available is displayed; the template can still be used as usual.

Configurations area in Relution Teacher with an education group, its description and linked policies

Details on the lesson template: Relution Teacher →.

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