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Digital Whiteboarding and Annotation With Your iPad

This guide offers an overview of using an iPad and Apple Pencil, two tools from the tech kit, for digital whiteboarding and annotation. It covers the basics of setting up your 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...

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Using PowerPoint with Apple Pencil Annotation on Your 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, you can easily download a PDF or Word doc...

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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...

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Getting Files Onto (and Off Of) Your iPad

Whether you’re using your iPad to annotate an article during class or recording a lecture over your Powerpoint slide deck, you’ll need a way to get documents onto (and off) your iPad. The best set up for this depends on a number of factors like what cloud storage or iPad apps you already use. In general, though, the easiest option...

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Perusall Workshop Recording

The above is a recording of the social annotation tools workshop, which focused on a Perusall, a platform that allows for in-line, threaded commentary on and discussions of texts. Formatted as a VoiceThread, the recording includes two “slides,” which you can toggle between using the arrows on the lower right. (Here is a direct link to the recording, if you’d...

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Getting Started with Office on an iPad

The brief video covers how to get Microsoft Office applications (like Powerpoint or Excel) installed on an iPad using your Macalester credentials. These Office apps are especially useful if you’re using your tech kit to annotate slideshows or other documents, either for making recordings, or during synchronous class meetings.

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