{"id":824,"date":"2017-04-10T09:50:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech2.mountdesales.net\/?p=824"},"modified":"2017-04-13T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T13:14:09","slug":"dark-apps-cant-get-my-typing-done-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Dark Apps &#8211; Can&#8217;t get my typing done &#8211; help!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when MDS Tech pushes out app updates on the iPads it takes a while for everything to get updated.<\/p>\n<p>The first things you need to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Swipe out of all your running apps, shutdown, reboot, and WAIT. [Search for &#8220;iPad Reboot Dance&#8221; here on the tech site.]<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you have enough open storage on your iPad [Settings &#8211;&gt; General &#8211;&gt; About. If the number is well below 500 megabytes\/.5gigabytes, you need to do some housecleaning. <a href=\"http:\/\/tech2.mountdesales.net\/blog\/2016\/ipads-whats-taking-up-all-my-storage\/\">What&#8217;s Taking Up All Your Storage?<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><strong>When you get home<\/strong>, plug your iPad in.<\/li>\n<li>Confirm you are connected to the internet {try going to a webpage that you&#8217;ve never visited before &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamsandwichtees.com\">hamsandwichtees.com<\/a>, for example]<\/li>\n<li>Check to see if you have a system update [Settings&#8211;&gt;General&#8211;&gt;Software Update] IF YOU DO&lt; &#8211; UPDATE YOUR SYSTEM!<\/li>\n<li>Then leave it alone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: andale mono,monospace; font-size: 18pt; color: #ff0000;\">NOTICE: YOU STILL ARE REQUIRED TO GET YOUR HOMEWORK DONE EVEN IF NOTABILITY OR TEXTILUS ARE NOT WORKING<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; color: #0000ff;\">Why? You Have OPTIONS!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Have typing to do? Here are several ways to type EVEN IF your word processor of choice is not available at the moment:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>iPad:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Pencil and Paper<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Notes app<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Textilus<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Notability<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Google Docs<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Fire up a web browser, login to Drive, start a new Google Doc inside the web browser<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Use any of the above to create the text. Shoot a screen shot. Email it to yourself.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;..or use<a href=\"https:\/\/fossbytes.com\/use-google-drive-convert-images-text-ocr\/\"> Google Drive to do OCR on the picture &#8211; <\/a>which converts the letters in the picture it to text that you can edit.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Type the material, take a picture using your phone, email it to yourself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Other computers:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Type your material using Docs on your Google drive [login.mountdesales.net, Drive, NEW&#8211;&gt; Google Doc]. Once done, you could copy\/paste the material into an email, share a link, download it as a PDF or Word document&#8230;&#8230; what makes sense depends on your teacher and the assignment.<\/li>\n<li>You COULD use your phone, but I really do not recommend it unless it&#8217;s only one sentence. You DO want to have a life, right? A phone screen takes way too long, and it prevents you from seeing the whole things you&#8217;ve typed &#8211; that means MORE mistakes, lower grade, etc.<\/li>\n<li>There are computers available in the ARC ADN in SH206 [when there is no class in session in the room].<\/li>\n<li>Pencil and Paper!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Need even more ideas? Contact the iPad guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when MDS Tech pushes out app updates on the iPads it takes a while for everything to get updated. The first things you need to do: Swipe out of all your running apps, shutdown, reboot, and WAIT. [Search for &#8220;iPad Reboot Dance&#8221; here on the tech site.] Make sure you have enough open storage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?p=824\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dark Apps &#8211; Can&#8217;t get my typing done &#8211; help!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[145,10,2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apps","category-faculty-ipads","category-ipads","category-student-ipads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42ogX-di","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1092,"url":"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?p=1092","url_meta":{"origin":824,"position":0},"title":"IOS 12 and missing iBooks","author":"Tom Rule","date":"10\/09\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"If you have upgraded your iPad to IOS 12, and now your iBooks are missing, try these fixes [taken from a variety of locations across the web}: Check for another system update in Settings --> General --> Software Update. 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