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Using Notability with Google Drive

Like other mobile apps, the note-taking platform Notability can import from and export to Google Drive. This is especially useful if you’ve set up Google Drive to transfer files to and from your iPad. To import a PDF to annotate in Notability: Open the Notability app from your home screen. From the main menu, select the Import button on the...

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Using Office with Google Drive on an iPad

Google Drive is a powerful tool for sharing files between your laptop and your iPad, and it’s relatively straightforward to get set up. However, some mobile apps don’t integrate as well with Drive. One is Office 365, which includes PowerPoint and Word, two apps that might be useful for teaching or collaboration. Unfortunately, Microsoft has made it so you can’t...

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Digital Whiteboarding and Annotation With an iPad

This guide offers an overview of using an iPad and Apple Pencil for digital whiteboarding and annotation. It covers the basics of setting up an iPad with Zoom, but also offers suggestions about using the iPad in class, iPad workflows, and annotation apps. Connecting Your iPad in Zoom First things first: to share anything on your iPad screen with your...

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Using PowerPoint with Apple Pencil Annotation on an iPad

One of the benefits of using your iPad and Apple Pencil with PowerPoint is the ability to easily annotate your slideshow. In just a few easy steps you can transform your static slideshow into a whiteboard, highlighting key images and phrases, or using blank space for problem solving. Enable Annotations in PowerPoint Make sure PowerPoint is installed on your iPad...

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Sharing Your iPad Screen on a Mac – On Campus

If you have a Mac, there are several ways to share your iPad screen over Zoom. But if you’re on campus, the best way is to use a physical connection: the charger cable that comes with your iPad (and an adapter for connecting it to the new USB-C Mac Books). This how-to walks you through this kind of connection. Open...

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Tracking Charge on Apple Pencil

The Apple Pencil does not have a way to tell you when the battery is running low on its own. However, you can use your iPad to keep track of the battery life in a few easy steps. Log into your iPad Swipe right on the home screen Select Edit on the bottom of the Widget Screen Find Batteries listed...

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Copying Perusall Content To a New Course

If you’ve added readings and assignments to Perusall for past courses and want to reuse them for new classes, you’re in luck: there’s a straight-forward process to copy materials from one course to another. It can even preserve your assignment links on Moodle, given a little bit of elbow grease. The trickiest part is remembering the right order of operations....

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Annotating Emailed Attachments On Your iPad

There are numerous ways to get files onto and off your iPad when you’d like to do things like annotate with the Apple Pencil. Using Google Drive is one way the ATS team recommends. But sometimes email is the easiest method. Using a mobile mail app (like Gmail’s app) and Notability, an note-taking app, you can easily download a PDF...

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Sharing Your iPad Screen via a Windows PC – Off Campus

The above video walks you through how to share you iPad screen in a Zoom meeting that’s hosted (joined) on a Windows computer. You essentially connect the two devices — your PC and your iPad — via the iPad’s AirPlay protocol. This will be useful for whiteboarding during synchronous classes, or when recording mini-lectures. Notably, this method only works at...