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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.

Apps, Faculty, iPads, More, Student, Students

Get files FROM Drive TO Notability

Normally you set Notability to automatically backup your docs to Drive. Sometimes you need to reverse that process – pull some material from Drive into Notability.

FIRST:

  • Get your Dividers and Subjects setup in Notability
  • Select a location[folder]  in Notability.
    THEN select what to import. Drive is organized just like notability was – if you had folders/dividers in Notability, then you will see folders in Drive, inside the Notability folder.
    Your Notability selection is WHERE the files will be imported to.
  • You will need to do this for each folder/divider you set up.

Once you get Notability setup:

  • Open up Notability
  • Click the icon, top right, that looks like a square with an arrow going INTO it
  • Select Google Drive
  • It should automatically show you the Notability folder on your Drive.
  • Select what you’d like to import.
REMEMBER THAT Folders on Drive = “Subjects” in Notability.

 

The import icon is the middle one.
The import icon is the middle one.

 

Faculty, iPads, Student, Students

Notability issue – Out of Storage

Think of your ipad as a filing cabinet with a limited amount of storage. If you fill up your filing cabinet, then nothing more can be stashed there until you toss some stuff.

If the cabinet [your iPad] is full, then Notability will NOT save what you’ve been working on.

How to tell how much storage you have used/have available:

Settings –> General –> About

How to tell what app is using the most storage:

Settings –> General –> Usage –> Manage Storage

Suggestions for clearing out some space:

  • First thing to try: Close out of all your apps [doubleclick home, swipe up all the apps], then reboot by holding down the power button until the “swipe to turn off” slider appears.
  • Second thing to try: Settings –> General –> Software Update. Click on the triangle at the bottom – it MAY let you delete the downloaded update file.
  • Photos & Camera: Delete any pix/videos you don’t need. If you have some you’d like to keep, upload them to Drive and then delete from the iPad
  • To upload pix/vids to Drive: fire up the Drive app. Create a folder where you’d like to stash the files. Click the PLUS icon. Select “Upload Photos or Videos”, then camera roll. Click to select the files you’d like to upload, THEN CLICK THE BLUE CHECKMARK at the top right.
  • iBooks: delete anything that you don’t need anymore
  • Notability: delete anything not needed. If you don’t need it NOW but want to keep it, upload the file to Drive by clicking on the Export icon at the top of the screen.

    http://tech2.mountdesales.net/blog/2013/ipad-how-why-backups/ has detailed instructions.

  • Mail: Sometime Mail is taking up tons of room, especially if you never delete anything. Mail is actually downloading a COPY of your emails from the server – to clean things up without actually deleting the mails, delete the account from your iPad [Settings –> Mail]. When you set it up again, select “Google” for the account type.