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iPads, Student

Loading PDFs from Schoology to Notability

​Anytime one browser has trouble with downloads or just acts flaky when getting a file from Schoology to Notability on your iPad, here are some things to do:

1) Quit out of all your running apps except the one you need. Too many students have 25 or 30 apps running in the background, which can make things difficult.

2) Quit out of ALL running apps and THEN restart the device. [aka the “iPad Reboot Dance”The “iPad Reboot Dance”]

3) Use a different web browser. You have Safari, Chrome, Notability, AND Edge on your iPad.

Quite often one web browser will work where another one has flaked out. If you’d like to know why, bone up on Nuclear Physics, then come ask.

Once downloaded, the file probably can be found in the FILES app – click on the “recents” category and you should see it.

Click-and-hold to see what options you have [including renaming the file].

In Notability, click and hold the +NEW button. You should see an option to import a file from the Files app. Select that option, and you should be presented with a list of files you can import into Notability.

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Printing from your iPad

Answering some questions that have been hanging around De Sales Hall recently.

​Answering some questions that have been running rampant here in De Sales hall!

1) You’ll see two versions of the student printers

– “regular” and “pi”. They both go to the same printer. The idea is that only 1 will go insane at a time.

2) If your document does not print,

check Print Center before printing it a 2nd/3rd/4th/time. Double-click the home button, and find print center. If job #1 is stuck, jobs 2,3,4, etc will NEVER print. You must delete it.

NOTE: On the “no home button” 9th grade iPads, 4-finger swipe to one side or the other to switch between running apps.

3. If you have umpteen apps running

[either double-click the home button, and do the “close 5 fingers swipe” on the screen] – swipe out of them!

4. If you don’t remember the last time you shut your iPad down

– swipe out of all your running apps and shut it down. Wait 10 seconds. Fire it back up.

5. To print from Notability:

Three dot menu, top right

  • Quick Share
  • Print
  • Pay attention to what printer you are selecting, and double sided option

To print from Google Docs:

  • 3 dot menu, top right
  • “Share and Export”
  • Print
  • Select a printer, set your double-sided etc. option
iPads, Student

9th grade iPads – NO HOME BUTTON!

The new 9th grade iPads are the 10th generation, which means they have no home button. While I realize this is old news for some, for others it is a very different way of working.

Here are some articles you can scan for more information and graphics: