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Apps, Faculty, iPads, Student

Dark Apps – Can’t get my typing done – help!

Sometimes when MDS Tech pushes out app updates on the iPads it takes a while for everything to get updated.

The first things you need to do:

  • Swipe out of all your running apps, shutdown, reboot, and WAIT. [Search for “iPad Reboot Dance” here on the tech site.]
  • Make sure you have enough open storage on your iPad [Settings –> General –> About. If the number is well below 500 megabytes/.5gigabytes, you need to do some housecleaning. What’s Taking Up All Your Storage?]
  • When you get home, plug your iPad in.
  • Confirm you are connected to the internet {try going to a webpage that you’ve never visited before – hamsandwichtees.com, for example]
  • Check to see if you have a system update [Settings–>General–>Software Update] IF YOU DO< – UPDATE YOUR SYSTEM!
  • Then leave it alone.

NOTICE: YOU STILL ARE REQUIRED TO GET YOUR HOMEWORK DONE EVEN IF NOTABILITY OR TEXTILUS ARE NOT WORKING.

Why? You Have OPTIONS!

Have typing to do? Here are several ways to type EVEN IF your word processor of choice is not available at the moment:

iPad:

  • Pencil and Paper
  • Notes app
  • Textilus
  • Notability
  • Google Docs
  • Fire up a web browser, login to Drive, start a new Google Doc inside the web browser
  • Use any of the above to create the text. Shoot a screen shot. Email it to yourself.
  • …..or use Google Drive to do OCR on the picture – which converts the letters in the picture it to text that you can edit.
  • Type the material, take a picture using your phone, email it to yourself.

Other computers:

  • Type your material using Docs on your Google drive [login.mountdesales.net, Drive, NEW–> Google Doc]. Once done, you could copy/paste the material into an email, share a link, download it as a PDF or Word document…… what makes sense depends on your teacher and the assignment.
  • You COULD use your phone, but I really do not recommend it unless it’s only one sentence. You DO want to have a life, right? A phone screen takes way too long, and it prevents you from seeing the whole things you’ve typed – that means MORE mistakes, lower grade, etc.
  • There are computers available in the ARC ADN in SH206 [when there is no class in session in the room].
  • Pencil and Paper!

Need even more ideas? Contact the iPad guy.

Faculty, iPads, Student

Before turning in your busted iPad – things to do

If the iPad Guy has asked you to swap out your iPad, here is a list of things you need to do on your OLD iPad before turning it in.

If you can’t – because the screen is too damaged, etc. – then it’s possible you MIGHT lose some data. At the very least the process will be more inconvenient [as opposed to catastrophic].

  • Settings –> iCloud –> Backup. “BACKUP NOW”. Wait for it to complete – it will take a while.
  • Notability –> Settings [gear icon on the front screen]. Make SURE AutoUpdate is turned ON.
  • Drive –> Look inside the notability folder, make sure your latest notability stuff is there. Look inside the “Google Photos” folder – make sure your pix are there. If they aren’t, then manually copy them up to that folder [Plus icon, bottom right, select Photos album, click on the pictures that are missing, click the Blue Checkmark  to start the upload.]

Once this is done we can start working on your replacement iPad.