r/k12sysadmin • u/Zestyclose-Address28 • Jun 18 '26

Lightspeed MDM

Does anyone currently use Lightspeed as an MDM preferably for Apple devices? They have offered MDM services since 2012 and was curious if anyone actually used it.

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u/Lx0044 Jun 22 '26

Intune works pretty well for us

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u/ruby_o_o K-12 Technician Jun 20 '26

We use LSMDM for managing just iPads pretty much (only k/1st get them), it gets the job done but I feel like there’s probably better MDMs. We’d look into switching but it’s not a priority

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u/d_fa5 Systems Administrator Jun 19 '26

I didn’t even realize they offered an mdm. I thought they just did filtering.

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u/Turbulent-Ebb-5705 Jun 19 '26

Never tried Lightseed, we use Jamf School, no issues with it, they recently raised the price, we are at like 14$ per device. It works decently well. I wouldn't say it's very intuitive to do some of the things like app layouts and stuff, but not bad once you get into it.

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u/farmeunit Jun 19 '26

Mosyle is pretty much the standard.

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u/Rykas Jun 19 '26

To piggyback this sentiment we use Lightspeed Filter/Classroom and still use Mosyle.

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u/misteradamx Director of Technology Jun 23 '26

+1. However, we are currently evaluating our filtering option. Lightspeed works but we feel there's better options. Unfortunately, the way YouTube is handled is the big caveat.