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Essentials, iPads, Student, Students

Save Your Data! [what to do after your iPad gets wiped]

Here’s what you need to MAKE SURE gets setup after your iPad gets wiped – or better yet, BEFORE something happens  to your iPad.

The Short List

  1. iCloud signed in to your MDS email address
  2. iCloud Backup ON
  3. Google Drive – signed in, Pix auto-backup
  4. Notability – backing up to Google Drive
  5. Setup Email

The Detailed List

iCloud

This will make it faster to setup your iPad in case of a disaster.

  • Settings –> iCloud
  • Make sure you are signed in. You should see YOUR MDS EMAIL at the top. If you have used a different email address, CHANGE IT NOW. If you want to know why, ask Mr. Rule.
  • Turn iCloud Backup ON – and start a backup.

 

Google Drive

Automatically backup your pictures and videos after you take them.

  • Sign in to Google Drive
  • Look for the 3 stacked lines, top left. [It’s called a “hamburger menu”].
  • Click it.
  • Select Settings…..
  • Select Photos
  • Turn ON both sliders at the top [Use Google Photos folder, Autobackup].
  • Sometimes the “Google Photos” option is grayed out. I don’t know why. Let me know if you figure it out.

 

Notability

Automatically back up everything in Notability to a folder on Google Drive.

  • Fire up Notability
  • Bottom Left corner – click the gear icon [settings]
  • AutoBackup
  • Google Drive
  • Login
  • Give it permission

 

Setup Email

  • Settings –>Email
  • Add new account
  • It’s a GOOGLE account
  • Fill in the fields – should be easy to figure out.
  • When you get to the screen with 4 sliders – turn all 4 of them green, then hit SAVE
Essentials, Faculty, Faculty/Staff, iPads, Student, Students

My iPad isn’t working – no email, no printing, no web surfing

Problem: If your iPad all of a sudden stops working oncampus, it is most likely because your subscription to the network has expired.

It MUST be renewed every 30 days.

Symptoms: no email access, can’t print, can’t surf the web, but the wireless icon is still active.

Solution:

  • Open up a web browser window.
  • Surf to an OFF-CAMPUS website you’ve never visited before. Perhaps HamSandwichTees.com,  or ShadowSoundStudio.com, or Macon.com… well, you get the idea. It MUST be off-campus, and MUST be somewhere you’ve never visited before.
  •  You SHOULD see the “login here” splash screen.

 

iPads, Student, Students

Notability Not Working

If Notability seems to start up when you click the icon, and then it disappears:

Step One – Clear the Decks:

  • Swipe out of all your running apps [doubleclick your home button, swipe all the running windows up to quit the apps].
  • Shutdown your iPad [Hold Power button down for umpteen seconds until the “Swipe to turn off” slider appears onscreen.]
  • Wait FIVE MINUTES.
  • Turn iPad back on.

Step Two – Check your storage:

  • Settings –> General –> About –> Amount Available
  • If less than 500megabytes, then you need to make room, USUALLY by deleting photos or Videos
  • Photos app –> Camera Roll. Select items to delete.
  • THEN switch to the “Recently Deleted” album, click SELECT, then DELETE ALL.
  • Other possible storage hog is your email. DELETE emails you no longer need – each one takes up room on your ipad.

If the Notability icon is Dark, or says “Waiting”:

Your iPad [for whatever reason] refuses to update Notability, or it started to and has gotten confused.

A couple of points, first:

You are STILL responsible for getting your homework done. This means you will have to take an alternate route. Work with your teachers – they are all aware of the issue.

Alternative Possibilities for getting your work done include

  • Textilus if you want to type notes
  • Google Docs if you want to type, AND your notes to automatically be available in Drive
  • If you prefer to use a stylus, try using one of the Art apps [like Paper]
  • Use Pencil/Pen and Paper. [Seriously – there are a good number of brain-wiring/educational/physiological reasons to go this route. Ask Mrs. Alderman].
“THE DANCE”
  • Try this first at school.
  • If that makes no difference, try it at home.
  • Please do these steps IN THIS ORDER.
  • Once you complete them, let Mr. Rule or Mrs. Andrews know what happened. They are tracking the results and working with tech support.
  1. Look at your Notability app. If it is NOT still dark, let Mr. Rule/Mrs. Andrews know – RIGHT NOW!
  2. Swipe out of all your apps. Shutdown the iPad. Wait 5 minutes. Start it back up.
  3. Once things are back up, wait 5 minutes to see if anything changes.
  4. If Not, click on  the Notability icon.
  5. If it starts installing, let Mr. Rule/Mrs. Andrews know – RIGHT NOW!

 

—–>  If you’ve “done the dance” at school, try it at home.

—–>  If you’ve “done the dance” at home, try it at school.

—–>  Let Mr. Rule/Mrs. Andrews know what happened – RIGHT NOW!

One student had success by doing this:

I closed out my apps,clicked on all the blacked out apps a few times, and shut the ipad down for about twenty minutes. The apps started loading after that.