Category Archives: Apps

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.

Apps, Faculty, iPads, More, Student, Students

Get files FROM Drive TO Notability

Normally you set Notability to automatically backup your docs to Drive. Sometimes you need to reverse that process – pull some material from Drive into Notability.

FIRST:

  • Get your Dividers and Subjects setup in Notability
  • Select a location[folder]  in Notability.
    THEN select what to import. Drive is organized just like notability was – if you had folders/dividers in Notability, then you will see folders in Drive, inside the Notability folder.
    Your Notability selection is WHERE the files will be imported to.
  • You will need to do this for each folder/divider you set up.

Once you get Notability setup:

  • Open up Notability
  • Click the icon, top right, that looks like a square with an arrow going INTO it
  • Select Google Drive
  • It should automatically show you the Notability folder on your Drive.
  • Select what you’d like to import.
REMEMBER THAT Folders on Drive = “Subjects” in Notability.

 

The import icon is the middle one.
The import icon is the middle one.

 

Apps, iPads, Student

Textilus and TurnItIn: Here’s How

Here is how to get a document you’ve created in Textilus on your iPad to the TurnItIn account.

PREREQUISITE: You MUST be logged into your Drive space [Fire up Google Drive – if you can see your files, then you are logged in.]

  1. Create your Document in Textilus.
  2. EXPORT the document from Textilus to Drive. Your teacher will specify which file format to use.
  3. Switch over to TurnItIn in a web browser.
  4. Find the assingment created by your instructor.
  5. Upload the file from Drive.

Doubleclick the Thumbnail of the uploaded file, just to make sure you selected the correct one!

When dealing with computers, NEVER ASSUME!