Every school's devices in one console, with a policy per school
A trust's central IT team runs the devices of many schools, each with its own Google Admin units, its own iPad carts and its own ideas. Purple MDM gives the trust one console and one set of baselines, a group per school, and a preview of exactly which school a change would reach before it is saved.
- Claimed under your organisation
- Settings rendered for the platform
- Apps and WiFi certificate issued
- Encryption on, key stored
What you are up against
Central IT, many schools, one mistake away from a bad morning
A change that hits the wrong school
A setting meant for one school reaches all of them, and the central team hears about it from every headteacher at once.Inconsistent fleets
Each school joined the trust with its own devices, its own MDM and its own habits, and nobody has one list.Thin teams
A handful of technicians for thousands of devices, and every term brings a new intake of hardware.
How Purple MDM is set up
How Purple MDM is set up for a trust
- A group per school, baselines across the trustSecurity baselines set once for the trust and layered with each school's own settings; the effective result for any device is shown before it applies.
- Preview before it reaches a siteEvery change shows which schools and devices it would reach and which would fall out of compliance, rolls out to one school first, and any earlier version can be restored.
- Each school's Google Admin connectedChromebooks stay in each school's own organisational units, visible to the trust from one place.
- Migration school by schoolDevices imported from Jamf, Intune or JumpCloud and moved in waves, one school at a time, with WiFi certificates kept valid throughout.
See everything Purple MDM doesEducation WiFi on Purple Access
- Staff MacsIn compliancemacOS 15, EAP-TLS WiFi, FileVault
- Frontline iPadsPreviewing changeSupervised, shared, Return to ServiceRoll-outTest groupRolled outWhole groupWaiting for you
- Office PCsIn complianceWindows 11, BitLocker, LAPS
Revisions
The fleet
The trust's fleet
- Every school's ChromebooksOne inventory across every Google Admin connection.
- Every school's iPadsSupervised through Apple School Manager, apps assigned by school.
- Staff and central office laptopsEncryption with key escrow and company sign-in, trust-wide.
- Reports per schoolCompliance, OS versions and patch status, emailed to each school's lead on a schedule.
- The audit logEvery admin action and command, with who did it, across the trust.
- RolesAdmin for the central team, Helpdesk for school-based technicians, Read only for governors.
FAQ
Questions we hear from teams like yours
Can each school have its own settings?
Yes. Groups are built per school and layered with the trust's baselines, and Purple MDM shows the effective result for any device before a change applies.
Can a school's technician act without seeing the whole trust?
Roles decide that: Admin, Helpdesk (lock and fix, no wipe, no recovery keys) and Read only. Every action is logged with who did it.
How do we move schools onto Purple MDM one at a time?
Import each school's device list from its old MDM, see where every device stands, and move that school in waves while the rest stay where they are.
Where is the trust's data kept?
In its region, Europe or the United States, apart from every other customer's at the database level, with keys held in a cloud key management service.
Other industries
Schools
Carts, classroom iPads and staff laptops in one console, with the school year built in.Colleges
Workshop PCs, media Macs, loan iPads and staff laptops in one console.Higher education
A group per faculty, Linux research machines included, personal devices handled as personal.
See every device in one console, on your own fleet
Tell us which devices you run, how many, and what you manage them with today. The Purple team shows you Purple MDM on a fleet like yours: zero-touch enrolment, a change previewed and undone, a failed check explained in a sentence, and a device moved off the network and back. Already a Purple customer? Sign in to the app with your Purple account.
- We map your fleetA Purple expert maps your platforms, your groups and how devices arrive today, and answers your questions on enrolment, data regions, roles and migration.
- You see it on devices like yoursA demo of zero-touch enrolment, a previewed change, a failed check explained in plain English and, with Purple Access, a device moved off the network and back.
- You get your quotePriced per device, per month, for the platforms you run, direct or through your Purple partner, with a move in waves planned if you are coming from another MDM.
Your demo
Tell us your fleet. We show you Purple MDM running it.
A Purple expert comes back to book a demo on devices like yours, from the team behind Purple WiFi and Purple Access.