Category Archives: Faculty

Notability, part 1

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What’s covered:

Prerequisites:
Google Drive, email setup on your iPad

  1. Opening screen overview
  2. Bottom left corner icons: i=Contact developer, ? = help, gear = settings
  3. Manage Accounts –> connect Notability with Google drive, Dropbox, Box accounts
  4. Autobackup – backup options
  5. iCloud – useful if you have multiple IOS devices connected to the same iCloud AppleID AND you have Notability installed on both. Auto-syncs notes on the devices.
  6. Themes – change the look
  7. Document, Typing – setup the defaults
  8. Handwriting – zoom mode –> how to access. Left-handed mode, only useful if you are a lefty who curls your hand around the top to write.

Organization: Notes get stashed into “Subjects”, which can be grouped inside “Dividers”

Two kinds of graphics: Bitmap = Paint on the Screen vs. Vector=Math formula.

  • Bitmap = scissors tool used to slice/dice/move around
  • Vector = Text. Can change size with no loss in quality.

Notability, part 4

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etYHCcIrRlA]

Reviewing the Plus [Media] tool, and importing/exporting

The Media tool enables you to pull in pictures from the Camera Roll or live from the Camera, plus has some basic editing tools [including cropping] AND lets you draw on top of the imported graphic with various shapes [lines, squiggles, rectangles, circles, etc].

Also covers stickies, web clips, and importing PDF file from Google drive into your note.

ePub texts – how to read

You might run across an ePub book. How do you read it?

[NOTE: We haven’t had a chance to test out these on our machines, so your mileage may vary. Please let me know what works or doesn’t work! Send an email to trule@ etc etc]

iPads / Kindle

Both of these should automatically open up the file – the iPad in iBooks, the Kindle in an ePub reader. Please let tech know if they don’t.

Windows machines

Mac machines