Category Archives: iPads

Faculty, iPads, Student

iPad App Portal

New to the ipads this year is the App Portal, a place where students can download a selection of apps to their iPad.

No – not just any apps in the store. You won’t see Clash of Clans there…. or even Instagram.

The app list will grow from its current state, so keep on eye on it or keep watching  WMDS, where we’ll be making announcements.

THE CATCH:

Once you download an app, you will not be able to delete it. So what do you do if you’ve downloaded something from the portal and want to get rid of it?

THE SOLUTION:

Email iPad [at] mountdesales.net – tell the iPad Guy what app THAT YOU DOWNLOADED FROM THE PORTAL you’d like to be deleted from your iPad.

GOT AN IDEA FOR AN APP TO ADD?

Don’t email the iPad Guy. Requests must come from faculty and administration!

 

Faculty, iPads, Student

My iPad is in the wrong time zone!

If your iPad clock is a few hours off [it thinks it’s still in California…], here’s how to bring it to Eastern time:

  • Settings–>Privacy
  • Locations Services –> Turn ON

This will let the iPad figure out where it is.

While you are there, the iPad Guy suggests you make these changes:

  • System Services:
    • Leave these ON:
      • Compass Calibration
      • Emergency SOS
      • Find My iPad
      • Setting Time Zone
      • WiFi Networking
    • Turn these OFF:
      • Homekit
      • Location-Based ANTHING [Alerts, Ads, Suggestions]
      • Frequent Locations
      • Product Improvement – all 3 OFF
    • Status Bar Icon ON

These will extend your battery life and better protect your privacy AND reduce some annoyances.

It will take a while for the iPad to update the time.
Want to speed up the process?

  • Settings –> General –> Date&Time
  • Turn “Set Automatically” Off
  • Change “Cupertino” to “Atlanta”
  • Then you can change the “Set Automatically” back on if you want to.

 

 

Essentials, iPads, Student, Students

iPad Setup details

What buttons to push to get your iPad setup:

1) Get on the Network

• Find the Settings app
• Click Wi-Fi
• Select the network MDS-Student
• A page SHOULD come up asking you for your MDS number and Password. Use JUST the mds##### part and your Moodle password.
• If it does NOT come up:  Fire up a web browser [Safari/Chrome/Firefox] and go to a webpage that is OFFcampus and you’ve never visited before – like HamSandwichTees.com] That should trigger the login page.
• If the link at the top right never changes to Done after you login, AND you’ve waited 60 seconds – go back and try it again.
• If it gives you an error message, it’s likely you mistyped your password. Try again.

2) Email

• If setting up a new account – Settings –> Mail –> Accounts –>add Account.
• GOOGLE is the correct type.
• Login. If the sliders turn green, you are in.
• It isn’t setup until you click the SAVE link.

3) Google Drive

• Fire it up.
•  Login.
• It’s your MDS email address and Moodle password.
• Once in, click on the “hamburger menu” – the 3 stacked lines top left.
• Settings –> Photos.
•  Both sliders turned blue.

Now your pictures and videos will automatically be copied to a folder named Google Photos in your Drivespace.

You can delete a photo or video from your iPad safely – the copy will remain in Drive until you manually delete it from there.

4) Notability

• Fire it up.
• Get past the intro screens, if they appear.
• On the bottom right, click the Gear icon [settings].
• Select AUTOBACKUP –> Google Drive
• Login [if it asks].

Once done, anything you create in Notability will be automatically backed up to Google Drive, inside a folder named NOTABILITY, but only when you exit the document and get back to the front screen where your documents are listed in Notability.

5) AppleID

This is primarily so Find My iPad works, and secondarily as a backup.

• Open up Settings. On the top left, if you see your name. you are connected.
• If your name is there, AND there is a red notification, click it. It is probably asking you to setup Two-Factor-Authenticaion. DON’T – it creates headaches. Click the link to say “No thanks”. [If you already did – oh, well. We’ll deal with the headaches later.]
• If your name is NOT there – click there, and login.
• Remember: No number in moodle, add 1871 to the end to make your AppleID password. Missing an Upper or Lowercase letter? Change the case of the first letter.
• Can’t remember your AppleID password? Do the “I Forgot” dance – you’ll see a link onscreen.
• Never had an account? Come by the ARC.

You MUST use your MDS email address for an AppleID – don’t use an iCloud address, don’t use a personal email.
Use your moodle password for AppleID password.
DON’T turn on Two-Factor-Authentication if it’s an option to not use it [ but you might be required. Use YOUR cell phone if that’s true.]