Are Managed Apple IDs necessary?

I'm in the planning stages for moving our all iPad language school to ClassWork and a new homework app, but our school has students with a mix of rental and personal devices, and everyone using their own Apple ID.


All the ClassKit documentation is going on and on about Managed Apple IDs as if users with a regular Apple ID will not be able to report results back to teachers, even if they are registered in Classes set up with Apple School Manager.


Am I understanding this correctly?

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Apple says this about that...


"Student Privacy

ClassKit and Schoolwork are built with student privacy in mind. Schoolwork only receives and displays student progress data for activities a teacher explicitly assigns, and only when students use the Managed Apple ID that was created for them by their school on their device. If your app already uses a student account to enable certain features, ClassKit does not associate that account with the Managed Apple ID that the student uses."