Category Archives: Faculty

Tired of seeing Cupertino’s weather on your iPad?

10/17/2022 Tom Rule

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

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.

A menu will pop up.

Click on “Edit Weather”.

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?

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

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

Apps, Faculty, iPads, Student

Schoology: Logging in, Submitting Assignments, Drive and Schoology

08/16/2022 Tom Rule

By the way, it is pronounced
“cchool-ogy”,
not “schoo-ah-logy”

Logging in

Select “Log into your School”. DO NOT select “Login with Schoology” – that will not work.

Submitting Assignments

The “Normal” way, using the app

AFTER you have logged in, fire up Notability, call up your assignment.
Select “Share….”, then select Schoology.
You will be prompted to select a class, assignment, etc.

But if the app is not working for some reason, here is another path:

Using the Web

Surf to LMS.mountdesales.net, and get logged in.
In Notability, Select “Share…”.
Select “Save to Files….”
Suggestion: Create a folder named after your class, or the teacher.
Save the file.
Switch to the web browser and your class, then call up the assignment.
Click on the File icon [it is next to the microphone]. Select “From Your iPad”.
That should call up the files app, where you can select your file and upload it.

Using Google Docs with Schoology

If you are creating text using Google Docs to submit to Schoology, you first need to convert it to a PDF before submitting.

Press the three dots next to the doc
Press send a copy
Select pdf format
Save to files

[Thanks to Russell Gregory].

Faculty, iPads, Student

UPDATE YOUR IPAD

01/27/2022 Tom Rule

As of January 27, 2022, Apple released an update to IOS 15 that plugs a major security hole. Update your iPad at home. TONIGHT. It is **that** critical.

Settings –> General –> Software Update

Note: If you don’t see an update pending, then check each night for the next week.

What does it fix? Attackers can steal your recent browser history, and even details about your logged accounts [such as Google].

The bug affects all browsers on the iPad – which would mean Chrome AND Firefox are vulnerable as well as Safari.

SHOULD I PANIC?

No. This is a reality of living in the 21st century. In the 1950’s we were told to lock our cars, in the 1960’s to lock our doors. Now we have to keep our devices updated.

I’D LIKE TO KNOW MORE.

Well, then CLICK HERE for an article about the issue, and HERE for Apple’s Release notes.

MY IPAD IS OUT OF ROOM AND I CANNOT UPDATE.

Make more room on your ipad – see THIS ARTICLE for help.
Come by the ARC. We *can get your ipad updated, but it will take several hours.

I HAVE QUESTIONS

Send an email to ipad@mountdesales.net and ask away.

MDS Tech

Category Archives: Faculty

Tired of seeing Cupertino’s weather on your iPad?

UPDATE YOUR IPAD

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