Apple Education at HECC 2025

HECC 2025 is November 5-7, 2025.

At Apple Education, we’re excited to be part of HECC 2025 and look forward to sharing this journey with you. Apple Education’s dedicated visionary leaders will guide interactive sessions on diverse topics and provide you with great ideas, tools, and resources.

Connect with the Apple Team — learn, explore, and be inspired.

Explore content from the sessions below.

What's New in Education from Apple

Great teachers and effective technology are a powerful combination. Apple designs innovative solutions for the classroom that put the power of technology to work. Join us to learn about the latest Apple products, tools, and programs for education, including what’s new for productivity and collaboration.

• iPadOS26 Overview 
• What’s new in iPadOS 26 iPad user guide
• Work with multiple windows at once on iPad
• Modify files and folders in Files on iPad
• Get started with Preview on iPad
• Work with graphs in Math Notes in Calculator on iPad

Deploying Apple in Education

Join us to discuss best practices for deploying Apple in both one-to-one and shared-use environments. We’ll walk through zero-touch deployment, device configuration, federated authentication, managing software updates, and strategies for managing both institution-owned and user-owned Apple devices.

• Apple Platform Deployment
• Platform Single Sign-on for macOS
• Learn how Apple protects users with many layers of app security
• Learn more about Apple device and software encryption and Data Protection
• Account Driven Device Enrollment
• Enforcing a minimum version of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS
• Return to Service for iPhone and iPad

Why Apple in Education: Empowering Active Learners

Learning should be engaging, empowering, and fun — igniting a sense of joy, excitement, and possibility. This session will explore how Apple has been working with leaders, educators, and school communities from the beginning to build learning experiences to support this type of learning. And you’ll get to experience how Apple technology is designed with active learning in mind, helping students build critical skills by being more engaged in their own learning process.

Document in Slow Motion — use the slow motion capabilities of the Camera App to help young learners observer the world.

Pages — Presenter Mode — use presenter mode so that your text scrolls automatically like it’s on a teleprompter. The text appears in a large font against a dark background—without images or other media—so that it’s easy to read.

Keynote Live video — Quick easy green screen in combination with screen recording so students can be anywhere their imagination can take them. 

Creative Activities for Early Learners — Level up any lesson plan with quick, creative activities on iPad. Designed for early learners ages 4–8 years old, these simple activities include engaging lesson ideas and helpful templates.

Creative Activities — Level up any lesson plan with quick, creative activities on iPad. Designed for students ages 8 years old and up, these simple activities include engaging lesson ideas and helpful templates.

Creativity In Learning — Discover fun activities, step-by-step tutorials, downloadable templates, project guides, and more to help you quickly and easily enhance any lesson using drawings, videos, photos, and music.

Augmented Reality — Give students new opportunities to explore their world with augmented reality (AR) apps on iPad. Advanced cameras, motion tracking, and its lightweight design make iPad the best device for AR.

What’s New for IT from Apple

Apple is committed to supporting your vision for technology at scale. Join us to discuss the latest products and platform changes from Apple, including what’s new for Managed Apple IDs, new deployment options, and management features for macOS and iPadOS.

• Apple School Manager User Guide
• Test and defer software updates for Apple devices
• Service access with Managed Apple Accounts
• Intro to content caching
• Intro to mobile device management profiles

Apple Intelligence for Education: A New Era of Innovation

• Apple Intelligence landing page 
• How to use Writing Tools
• How to summarize email 
• How to create a Genmoji
• Education Community Post: Math Notes
• Education Community Post: Apple Intelligence- 5 tools for Educators
• Learn about using Image Playground
• Learn about Smart Reply and Summarization 
• Learn about Writing Tools

Managing Apple Intelligence and Machine Learning Features 

• Math and Calculator App Configuration for Apple Devices 
• MDM Restrictions for Apple Devices 

Supporting Multilingual Learners

• Translate text and voice for conversations across languages using iPad
• Using Live Text in Photos 
• Download the About Me Template 
• Create interactive Pages Books
• Teaching with iPad: Bilingual Learning Book and Resources
• English Language Learners Forum tag page

Accessibility: Empowering All Learners

• Apple Accessibility
• Accessibility Support Page
• A disability advocate preserves his voice with iPhone
• Apple Accessibility Resource PDF Overview 

Additional Ideas and Resources from Educators

Readers Theater — Students using Presenter Mode in Pages to read scripts or write their own plays.

Support Literacy and Language with iPad — Integrating iPad in a way that positively impacts literacy and language learning within the classroom.

Harnessing the Freeform App for Dynamic Digital Learning — Discover new ways to create interactive, multi-media-rich learning experiences that captivate and engage. Using Freeform, students can engage independently or collaboratively in real-time, from group brainstorming activities to digital station rotations.

Vocab Choice Board — Students us a multimodal choice board to help build their understanding of vocabulary. 

Foster Early Years Literacy with iPad — Support literacy and language learning for our early learners using Keynote on iPad.

Elevating education: effective vocabulary instruction — As educators, we know that teaching vocabulary is essential for fostering academic success and narrowing the pervasive vocabulary gap observed among students. Template provided that focuses on the different tiers of vocabulary. 

Vocabulary Workbook — This learning journal explores the power of using multiple modalities to support meaningful vocabulary instruction in the classroom. 

Apple Education Programs

Apple Teacher

Apple Teacher is a free professional learning program designed to support and celebrate educators using Apple products for teaching and learning. Your self-paced journey starts by learning foundational skills on iPad and Mac, and continues as you integrate Apple technology into your everyday lessons. With three recognitions to explore, there’s endless inspiration and opportunity to be rewarded for doing your very best teaching — teaching that gives students more connected, creative, collaborative, and personal learning experiences. Become an Apple Teacher >

Apple Learning Coach

Apple Learning Coach is a free, online certification program that trains instructional coaches, digital learning specialists and other coaching educators to get more out of Apple technology. In this session, discover how becoming an Apple Learning Coach can enhance teaching and learning with technology. You’ll hear insights from certified Apple Learning Coaches and learn how the program has transformed their coaching practice. Apply to Apple Learning Coach >