ADVANCED IPAD TIPS AND TRICKS

Brown Mackie College Library

Need to set up your iPad?

If you haven’t set up your iPad yet (including getting on the wifi, setting up an Apple ID, and accessing your eTextbook), do this tutorial: iPad Setup

What’s covered in this tutorial? AppleCare+ Adding Your Email to the iPad App-Related Tips & Tricks

Bookshelf Pearson Learning Studio Pages, Numbers & Keynote

Uploading Assignments to the Dropbox Additional Resources for Learning to Use

Your iPad

AppleCare+

Your iPad has a 2-year warranty which covers damage and device malfunctions – to use AppleCare+, take your iPad to the Apple Store (inside Summit Mall in Fairlawn) and pay $49 for a complete replacement!

AppleCare+ does NOT cover lost or stolen iPads

Read the complete terms & conditions HERE

Adding Your Email to the iPad Syncing your email to the iPad is easy –

just go to Settings and click ‘Mail, Contacts, Calendars’ then click ‘Add Account’ and choose the type of account you have:

Follow the instructions on the screen to input your username and password

Once the account is set up, new emails will automatically be delivered to your iPad and you can check or send email from the Mail app:

Note: if you want to send your Brown Mackie email to your iPad, log in to your student portal, click Gmail, and follow THESE instructions

Tips & Tricks: Bookshelf

Keyword Searching While reading your book, you can use the

search bar above the table of contents to search by word or phrase and easily find a specific passage

Highlighting To highlight a passage, press and hold your

finger on the words until a magnifying glass appears, then drag the blue bars to select the text

Tap the highlight a second time to change the color (useful if you’d like to color-code your highlights) or add a note

Sharing Highlighters You can share highlighters and notes with

anyone in your class – from the home screen of the Bookshelf app, click the blue arrow next to the highlighter you want to share and select ‘Shared with Anyone’

The person you’re sharing the highlighter with should now go to the home screen on their device and click the icon at the bottom of the Collections sidebar to add your email address (the one you use to log into your Bookshelf account)

Reverse the process to subscribe to someone else’s highlights

Tips & Tricks: Pearson LearningStudio

The Pearson LearningStudio app (available for free in the App Store) is the same as your eClass, but optimized for the iPad:

Log in by choosing ‘Brown Mackie College’ and entering your student portal username and password

Threaded Discussions It’s difficult to post responses to your

threads via Safari (the iPad’s web browser), but Pearson LearningStudio is optimized for threaded discussions and keeping you up to date with your class

Tips & Tricks: Pages, Keynote & Numbers

Pages, Keynote & Numbers are the Apple equivalent of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, and they’re free for your iPad!

Pages

Keynote

Numbers

Uploading Assignments to the Dropbox

iPads do not have folders for document storage like a regular computer, nor do they have USB drives for external memory sticks – this means you won’t be able to upload homework from your iPad directly to the dropbox in your student portal. Instead…

When you’re finished with an assignment (whether it be in Keynote, Pages, Numbers, or another app), click the share icon:

Click ‘Send a Copy’:

You’ll then be taken to the Mail app – send the email to yourself or your instructor, then upload it to the dropbox from a regular computer

Additional Resources

There are a lot of resources available to help acclimate you to the iPad. Here are just a few: iPad App of the Week – always features free

apps, delivered straight to your email on Mondays

BMCresources.com – click ‘Student Technology Resources’ to see tutorials on setting up and using your iPad

iTunes U – click HERE from your iPad for even more great ways to use your iPad (note: link will not work if clicked from a regular computer)