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Shared iPads: Saving Notability files and emailing them

On the Middle School Shared iPads, you cannot use the Mail app. So how do you email your teacher?

Here’s how – open this webpage:

You can attach files, forward, reply – all the standard stuff.

So how do you save a file from Notability so that you can email it?

In Notability, be looking at the file you want to email.

Click the Export icon [the square with the arrow pointing out].
Select SHARE TO…..,
Click the SHARE NOTE button,
Click “Save to Files“.
- You then select a location – “On my iPad” or “iCloud Drive”
  - I suggest selecting a location “On my iPad”, especially for grades 6 and 7 students.
    
    The document will automatically be copied up to iCloud anyway in due course, and local storage will save much faster.

At that point you can start a new email and attach the file.

We have recently received several emails and comments stating that getting into Schoology and Powerschool has been a bit flaky.

All of the commenters were using their phones and the respective apps to try and access their accounts.

MDS Tech’s advice:

When the apps refuse to work, fire up a web browser and access the information that way. You get the same info, just via a different route.

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

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

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.

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

[Thanks to Russell Gregory].