Wi-FiUnder Wi-Fi, you can turn your iPad's wireless connection on or off, and easily join nearby networks so you can access the internet. Once you join a network, your device will connect to it automatically whenever it's in range.

To Turn Wi-Fi On or Off:Tap the Settings icon on your Home screen.

Tap Wi-Fi in the left pane.Next to Wi-Fi, tap the control to turn it ON or OFF.

Joining NetworksTo join a network that's in range (for example, your home's Wi-Fi, or a nearby public hotspot), look for it under Choose a Network. Then tap the network you want to use. If the network is secure, you'll need to enter a password in order to connect to it.

If the network isn't secure, you can connect to it without a password,

but you should think carefully before you do (especially if it's a

public hotspot; for example, Wi-Fi at your local coffee shop).

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WiFi

To Set a Passcode:By default, iPad doesn't require a passcode to unlock it, but you can set one to help protect your device.Tap the Settings icon on your Home screen.Tap General in the left pane.Next to Passcode Lock, tap the control to view your options.

•Tap Turn Passcode On.•Use the keypad to enter your 4-digit passcode.

Security

ITunes

Once you unbox your iPad, you’ll immediately want to connect the iPad’s USB cable to your default home machine and open iTunes. When iTunes launches you’ll be asked to activate the iPad, agree to its Terms and Conditions, and register your device.iTunes will serve as your iPad’s backup system and will suggest that you restore your iPad from a previous iPhone or iPod Touch backup if you have one of those devices or start with a clean content slate on your iPad. Next, you can choose to automatically sync applications, photos, music and videos. Choose wisely — depending on your media inventory, the initial sync process could take awhile. It is recommend to deselect the automatic sync options and customize your iPad preferences via iTunes after this step.

iTunes on your laptop or desktop will serve as your iPad’s home base. After the initial setup process, you will want to customize your iPad’s media content and configure your settings. Start by selecting your iPad in iTunes; it’s located under the Devices label in the left-hand menu bar.

Info: From the Info tab you can choose to sync your address box contacts, iCal calendars, mail accounts, and Safari notes and bookmarks. In the advanced section you can elect to have iTunes sync your iPad’s contacts, calendars and mail accounts with your computer.Apps: This is where you’ll go to manage your iPad apps. If you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, you’ll notice that all of the apps you already own are pre-populated here. Select the apps that you want to appear on your iPad from the left-hand menu, which can by sorted by name, category or date. You can then drag-and-drop the ticked apps to switch them from one iPad page to another. You can also drag-and-drop individual pages to rearrange them.Music: The music tab will let you sync your entire music library or individually-selected playlists, artists and genres. Should you select the latter, you can manage those songs from the Music option below your iPad in the Devices section of the left-hand menu.Movies: In this section you can manage the movies that will be synced with your iPad. Use the drop down menu to specify whether you want to automatically sync all movies or just some of them. You can also scroll down to select to sync individual movie playlists.

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WIFI must be on

Updating Your Software

Software Update is where you can check for - and download - iOS updates from Apple. Updates frequently include bug fixes and other improvements designed to enhance your experience with the iPad. To view updates, tap Software Update while in General Settings. Then tap Download and Install if an update is available.

Locations Services is an optional setting that, when turned on, uses Wi-Fi and/or 3G or 4G to determine your current location. This data can be used by different apps in many different ways.

This feature uses location data to help you find your iPad (and remotely protect it from misuse) if it's ever lost or stolen. You can also use it to make your iPad play a sound in the event that you've just misplaced it. To enable this feature, tap Find My iPad while in Location Services. Then tap the control to turn it ON or OFF.

Find My iPad

Backing Up Your Ipad

A manual backup is a good idea if you expect to exchange your device or if you plan on doing something that could wipe the information on your iPad.

1. Plug in your iPad to a computer running the latest version of iTunes.

2. Once the sync is complete, right-click the iPad under the DEVICES list and click Back Up from the menu that appears.

Note: iPad backups will only save the device’s settings, not the applications, photos, videos, etc. Those items are saved if Sync for each of those categories is enabled.

To Adjust Brightness and WallpaperTap Brightness & Wallpaper in the left pane.Drag the slider to make your screen darker or lighter.

Tap the area under Wallpaper to view your options.Use the menu bar to apply the wallpaper to your Lock Screen, Home Screen, or Both

Settings

To Edit Sound Settings:

Tap Sounds to view your options.Use the settings in this pane to adjust the volume for sound effects, change your alerts, or turn certain effects ON or OFF.

The Picture Frame feature turns your iPad into an animated picture frame.

Home ScreenRearrange your icons by touching and holding any app on the Home screen. When the icons begin to shake, drag and drop them wherever you want (even on or off the dock) to change their arrangement. To move an icon to another screen, drag it to the left or right edge. When you're done, press the Home button on your device to save your changes

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Create a folder by dragging one icon on top of another. To add more icons to the folder, keep dragging and dropping the ones you want.

Deleting Apps

Press down and hold on the app’s icon.All apps will begin to wiggle.

Click on the ‘X’ of the icon you wish to delete.

Click ‘delete’ in the pop-up.

Saving, copying photos

Tap and hold on the image.A menu will appear, tap on your choice.If you saved the image you will find it in the ‘Photos’ icon on the desktop.

Locate the photo in your ‘Saved Photos’ album to use the photo.

Save/ Copy Photos

Tap to "click" or select something on the screen; for example, an app, a link, or a song you want to download. Tap and hold to occasionally access other options (think of this as "right-clicking").Drag to scroll up and down, left or right, or any other direction on the screen.Swipe left or right to flip through photos, pages in an e-book, pages on the Home screen, and more.Swipe left or right with 4 or 5 fingers to switch between open apps.Double tap to zoom in or out on photos, webpages, and certain apps.Pinch to zoom in or out almost anywhere.Pinch 4 or 5 fingers together to jump to the Home screen, no matter where you are.Swipe up with 4 or 5 fingers to pull up the multitasking bar.

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Ipad tips:Customizing Your Dock:The iPad is set up with four apps on the dock that appears at the bottom of all Home screens. Take advantage of the extra screen size and add up to two more. Tap and hold an app you want to add until all of the apps begin jiggling. Then drag the app to the Dock. Press the Home button when you're done.

Muting:Quickly mute your iPad by pressing and holding the volume down button. After two steps down the slider, the volume jumps to off. A good tip to quickly quite that video you launched in the middle of a meeting!

Jumping Back to the Top:Tap the status bar at the top of the screen to jump back to the top of the page or window you're viewing.Locking the Screen Orientation:

Move the switch above the volume controls to the orange position to lock screen rotation.

Notifications are pop-ups, banners, and other audio/visual cues that let you know when something on your iPad needs your attention.

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To open the Notification Center, swipe down from the top if your screen.

To Manage Your Notifications:•Tap the Settings icon on your Home screen.•Tap Notifications in the left pane.•The right pane will list every app that can be set up to notify you. •To edit any of your existing notifications, tap an app under In Notification Center. •To set up notifications for an app for the first time, scroll down and find it under •Not in Notification Center.

Spotlighting:You can use the spotlight feature on your iPad to search for content located on your iPad. The search will return all results including documents, email, and apps with the query you type. This can be handy for finding content and launching apps. Instead of searching through numerous pages filled with apps, quickly find an app by using the spotlight function and the app name.

iBooks:IBooks doesn't let you change the background color to black and text to white like you can on the Kindle. But here is a workaround. Go to Settings >General >Accessibility >Triple Click Home. Set this to "Toggle white on black." Now, when you click the home button three times quickly, all the color values of whatever app you're in will be reversed. This lets you read iBooks in white on black.

PagesGetting started•Choose your template. Apple provides 16 to help you get started as quickly as possible.•When you've opened a template, or opted to start writing a new blank document, the onscreen keyboard will pop up so you can start typing straight away.•To look up a word in the dictionary, or copy a term, you can press and hold a section of a text and a pop up box will give you all the options you need, including the definition of a word or expression.•You can change the fonts, text size and formatting, word wrap, alignment, line spacing and anything else to do with how the document looks by tapping the format icon at the top of the screen. More options appear in the Text Options menu at the bottom of the formatting tab.•Pictures can be changed too using the picture tab (next to the format key) within Pages.

Finding a document•Pages documents are all displayed in the document manager. This is where you can import documents from your email or Word.•To shuffle through the documents, you simply have to swipe across through them, and then tap to select.

In Numbers, you can create spreadsheets by placing multiple tables, charts, photos, and text on the same sheet. Numbers offers a variety of templates with different types of tables. Use the Blank template to begin with an empty table. You can also open and edit a spreadsheet in Numbers ’09, Microsoft Excel, or comma-separated value (CSV) file formats, but first you must import it to your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.

Numbers

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Create a new spreadsheet:In Spreadsheets view, tap in the top-left corner of the screen, and then tap Create Spreadsheet. Tap the template you want to use. Double-tap in a table cell, and then enter your own data.

Open an existing spreadsheet:

You can import a spreadsheet through iTunes, email, iWork.com Public Beta, iCloud, or iDisk.

Tap its thumbnail image in Spreadsheets view.

To print a sheet:1.Tap in the toolbar, and then tap “Share and Print.”2.Tap Print to open the Print Preview.Print Preview shows you how your sheet fits on the page, or how the sheet may be broken across multiple pages. By default, the sheet is automatically fitted to a single page width.3.Tap Landscape or Portrait in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, depending on whether you want your sheet to print in portrait or landscape orientation on the page.

                                                    

Safari For iPad

Browse the Web

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(A) Navigation Arrows (B) Multiple Windows

(C) Bookmarks and History (D) Save and Share

(E) Enter URLs (F) Search the Web or the Page

(G) The Bookmarks Bar it’s not turned on by default (you can turn it on by going to Settings -> Safari -> Always Show Bookmarks Bar

Scroll and Zoom Just like on an iPhone, you can double-tap a paragraph of text, picture, or other nonlinked area on a page to zoom in, and double-tap again to reverse. If you want to magnify the page further, you can use iOS’s pinching gestures and pinch out to expand an area.

Browse Your History If you’re trying to find a Website you’ve visited in the past, tap the Bookmarks icon in the toolbar. Make sure you’re in the topmost menu in the resulting pop-up by tapping the named arrow in the top left corner (tip: if there’s no arrow, you are where you need to be). Then tap History to get an in-depth view by date of your past Website visits.Clear History from the Bookmarks pop-up window (by navigating into the History folder and tapping Clear History in the upper right corner of the window) or by going to Settings -> Safari -> Clear History.

How to clear the cache, history and cookies in Safari for iPad

Open your settings

Select ‘Safari’ in the left menu. In the right window tap each of the buttons – Clear History, Clear Cookies. Clear Cache

Click the ‘clear’ button.

Clear History

With the built-in iTunes app, you can purchase all kinds of media from the iTunes store, then watch or listen to it instantly on your device. This includes music, movies, TV shows, and audio books. You can even download/subscribe to free audio or video podcasts.

Syncing with iTunes

Another great feature of iTunes is the fact that you can sync your purchased items between other devices; for example, your computer, iPhone, or iPod Touch. That means you can buy content on your iPad (or visa versa), then watch or listen to it from any device. You can set up syncing by connecting your iPad to your computer,

On the iPad, the App Store gives you access to over 140,000 apps aside from the ones built into your device. There, you'll find everything from games, to entertainment, to productivity tools - even apps that can help you with common tasks like studying for an exam, or traveling abroad. In short, if you have something in mind, there's a good chance you'll find an app for it in the App Store.

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App Store

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PDAS AppEduphoria for iPad

Visit the App Store on your iPad and search for eduphoria!. Install the SchoolObjects:pdasmobile app.

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After the app installs, open the pdas icon on your screen. A settings screen will appear. Enter your eduphoria! district website (eduphoria.wacoisd.org). Enter your username and password in the Login Information area. Your username and password will be saved in the settings. For confidentiality reasons, we highly recommend that you set a passcode lock for your iPad (in your Settings icon on the iPad).

To begin seeing your staff members, tap on the image of the person in the top left corner.

Once you have selected the staff member, tap on the plus sign to begin a new Walkthrough or Observation. If you selected a walkthrough, then you will be prompted to pick which template you wish to use. With both types of evaluations, you will be prompted to enter Class or Assignment information. If you would like to send the evaluation to the teacher immediately after you "Save and Close," then tap the "Allow Teacher to View" button. Tap it again to toggle it off. Once sent to the teacher, the document will not be viewable from the iPad. You, of course, will be able to view it from your

regular login.

Tap "Begin" and complete the evaluation. Tap to add checkmarks to items. Tap to toggle between the options a matrix item. Tap on any comments section to open your

keyboard.

When finished, tap "Done" to return to the home screen. Make sure

to tap "Save and Close" before leaving the evaluation.

Set up Eduphoria on the Ipad

These instructions will help you to set up Eduphoria on your iPad.You need to create a bookmark link on your iPad to easily access the Eduphoria website.

Go to our Eduphoria log in screen. Then bookmark the page.

Click to send the page then choose ‘Add to Home screen’, then click ‘Add’.

Ediphoria Website

Dropbox

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your iPhone and iPad and even the Dropbox website!

Documents To Go® - Office Suite

Looking to access your Microsoft Office ® files at any time? All you need is your favorite iOS device and Documents To Go to be constantly connected!

CloudOn was the first to bring Microsoft Office® to your iPad and link it with your Dropbox account.

CloudOn

Productivity

Evernote

Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go.

neu.Notes

Take notes and draw on your iPad™ with the best app in the store for handwritten notes, sketching, mind mapping, and more!

Educreations Interactive Whiteboard

Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Explain a math formula... Create an animated lesson... Add commentary to your photos... Diagram a sports play..

DocuSign Ink

Description DocuSign Ink - your Personal Electronic Signature! Never print, scan, fax, ship or use a pen again to sign and send documents! With DocuSign Ink, you can sign and return any document on your iPhone or iPad in seconds!

With the join.me viewer, you can join an online meeting no matter where you go. View someone’s screen, share ideas and collaborate in real time, for free!

join.me

Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard.

Easy mobile printing of most digital content (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, web pages, photos, PDF and text files). Print virtually anywhere, anytime to more than 200 HP printer models, including legacy networkable and HP ePrint-enabled printers.

HP ePrint Home & Biz

Dragon Dictation

Splashtop Remote Desktop for iPad

A very popular remote desktop app that let’s you access your desktop PCs or macs and run the apps on them. ($2.99)

Free Translator

This application provides an interface to the free Google Translate API for many languages including Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Vietnamese

iScheduleFinder is mobile software for K12 school administrators and leaders who want to manage the hallways with school data in-hand. It takes information from the school's existing database for use on an iPhone, iPod or iPad

Google Translator

FlipBoard

Flipboard Pages offers a simple new way for publishers to automatically send select content to your iPad.

Translate words and phrases between more than 60 languages using Google Translate for iOS. For most languages, you can speak your phrases and hear the corresponding translations.

iScheduleFinder

CommunicationCall, video call and instant message anyone else on Skype for free with Skype for your iPhone or iPod touch.

Follow your interests: instant updates from your friends, industry experts, favorite celebrities, and what’s happening around the world. Get short bursts of timely information on the official Twitter app.

Twitter

Curriculum Support

iTunes U

The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content — right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.