Category Archives: Student

Apps, iPads, Make Tech Easier, More, Student

Shared iPads: Saving Notability files and emailing them

On the Middle School Shared iPads, you cannot use the Mail app. So how do you email your teacher?

Here’s how – open this webpage:

webmail.mountdesales.net

You can attach files, forward, reply – all the standard stuff.

So how do you save a file from Notability so that you can email it?

In Notability, be looking at the file you want to email.

  • Click the Export icon [the square with the arrow pointing out].
  • Select SHARE TO…..,
  • Click the SHARE NOTE button,
  • Click “Save to Files“.
    • You then select a location – “On my iPad” or “iCloud Drive”
      • I suggest selecting a location “On my iPad”, especially for grades 6 and 7 students.

        The document will automatically be copied up to iCloud anyway in due course, and local storage will save much faster.

At that point you can start a new email and attach the file.

The export icon
Faculty, iPads, Student

Tired of seeing Cupertino’s weather on your iPad?

Here’s how to change the Weather Widget on your ipad from Cupertino to something a LITTLE closer to home.

The Weather Widget on an iPad

Widgets are those blocks of info on your initial screen. You can add, move, delete, and even stack them [stacking means there are several widgets in the same block on the screen – you scroll through them to se the additional info.]

Start the process by pressing and waiting on the widget.

Long press on the widget

A menu will pop up.

The Widget menu

Click on “Edit Weather”.

Not exactly close to home, is it?

Click on “Cupertino”, and type “Macon” – or wherever you’d like to see the weather at a glance.

Pick the correct Macon from the list. Yes, there is more than one in the US.
Wonder if we’ll get some snow this winter?
Not today…. or anytime soon!

The same process is used to modify or delete the other widgets.

Click the “DONE” button, top right, to finish the job.

iPads, Student

iPad is Disabled – what to do

What to do if your ipad is Disabled

Why this happens:
You typed in your passcode too many times

How to fix it:
Bring your ipad to the iPad office [or the ARC, if the office is unoccupied.] We will have to wipe it, which can take anywhere from a couple of hours to a day or so [depending on what else is happening tech-wise.]

Hopefully you setup your Notability backup to Drive correctly, AND your photos and videos are backing up to Drive as well.

HERE’S HOW to check that your backups are actually happening.