Tag Archives: setup

Faculty, iPads, Network, Student, Students

iCloud – how to setup your account

The MUST list:

  • you MUST use your MDS email address
  • you MUST use your Moodle password [or if your moodle password is missing a number, add 1871 to the end of it. Ask Mr. Rule is you don’t know the significance of that date.]

The WHY list:

  • because it will allow restoring your data if your iPad has to be wiped [MUCH faster and easier than the alternative]
  • because you can use Find My iPad when [not “if”] you misplace your iPad [saving many headaches]

The HOW List:

On your iPad:

  • Settings –> iCloud
  • Create an account
  • Type in your birthday
  • Use an existing email [NOT an iCloud email]
  • Set the email address and password – remember, MDS email address, moodle password
  • Answer the security questions.
  • DO NOT setup a rescue email.
  • Open your email – look for an email from Apple, It will ask you to click on a link, Do so to complete the process.
  • Back in the Settings app –> iCloud, it should say your name and your MDS email address at the top.
  • Confirm the Find My iPad is turned ON.
  • Confirm Backup is Turned ON.
  • Start a Backup. Seriously. Right now.

 

These instructions were from memory, and so might be a tad off. Use your common sense if/when reality diverges from this list.

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
iPads, Student

iPad Setup – 6th grade – Fall 2015

Gestures

  • Swipe
  • Octopus Squish
  • 3-finger swipe
  • 2 finger Zoom

 

Buttons

  • Power
  • Home
    • Once = home screen
    • Twice = All apps running so you can switch to or quit out of them

 

Search [Spotlight]

  • Swipe down in the middle where nothing is
  • Type what you are looking for

 

START

  • Swipe to get past the first screen
  • Set Country and Language
  • Select the wi-fi network MDS-STUDENT
    • Username is mds##### – known as your MDS number.
    • Password is your Moodle password.
  • “MDS can Configure your iPad” Select YES.

 

APPLEID

  • BIRTHDATE: Your month and date, but year should be 1971
  • Your first and last name
  • USE YOUR CURRENT EMAIL ADDRESS
  • mds#####@mountdesales.net
  • Moodle Password, UNLESS
    • if it is missing a number, add 1871 to the end of your moodle password
    • if Moodle password is ALL CAPS or all lowercase, ask what to do.
  • Security Questions – answer all three
  • Rescue email – JUST SKIP IT
  • Do you like to get ads in your email account? NO? Then Turn it off [“Receive Notifications”, I think.].
  • “YOUR ACCOUNT HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED” = GOOD
  • “YOUR DEVICE IS INELIGIBLE….” = BAD, Mr. Rule needs to note it, call Apple, & pitch a fit.

 

MERAKI MDM

  • Start Meraki MDM
  • Select ALL IPADS
  • It will switch screens 2 times
  • Answer YES/TRUST/INSTALL until it quits asking
  • “LOCATION SETTINGS” – Turn them ON after clicking “Location Settings”
  • “RUN IN BACKGROUND” – YES, please!

 

MAIL

  • Settings –> Mail
  • CREATE NEW ACCOUNT
  • GOOGLE ACCOUNT
  • mds#####@mountdesales.net, moodle password
  • YES, ALLOW, CONNECT <– whatever the buttons say.
  • Be Sure to hit SAVE at the end.

 

FINISH UP APPLEID

  • Check your Mail
  • Find email that says “Verify Your AppleID”
  • See link in message that says “Verify your AppleID”.
  • Click it.
  • Login with your AppleID and AppleID password [Moodle, or Moodle + 1871….????]
  • “YOU ARE NOW VERIFIED” = GOOD!
  • “YOU ARE VERIFIED BUT THINGS ARE STILL NOT SETUP ALL THE WAY” = GOOD! Keep going on….

 

ICLOUD SETTINGS – making sure things are setup correctly

  • Settings –> iCloud
  • TURN ON
    • Find my iPad
    • Backup

Google Drive

  1. Search for DRIVE
  2. Sign in – mds#####@mountdesales.net / Moodle password
  3. It WILL ask for it twice. Ask Mr. Rule later if you want to know why.
  4. “Back Up Photos/Videos?”
    1. This is a new feature – Drive can automatically backup your photos and videos from your camera roll, in the background, to your Drive space.
    2. I suggest YES.
    3. Wi-FI only [no cell radio available]
    4. Upload Size?  I Suggest HIGH QUALITY.
      1. It backs up faster than “original quality”.
    5. DO allow access to Photos.

Notability

  1. Time to setup auto-backup to Drive.
  2. Click past the intro screen. Get back to your Library.
  3. Bottom Left, click the Gear icon to get to settings.
  4. Select AutoBackup, select Google Drive.
  5. Login.
  6. YES, allow access.
  7. CLOSE

 

 

 

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