recommendations: set up & storage
Top Tips for setting up and storingĀ a class set of iPads:
- You can have up to 10 iPads linked to a single iTunes account.
- Give each device a name (ours are creatively called ‘iPad 1′, ‘iPad 2′, etc.) Set a picture as a background that represents the name (again, our iPads creatively have images of numbers as their wallpaper)
- Turn on ‘automatic download’ on each device. When an app is added to one device, it will appear on them all (as long as they are online)
- Find a central, secure place to store and charge the iPads. We used a laptop trolley that has a padlock with a code. No lost keys to worry about.
Writing this it’s hard to remember exactly what a challenge it was to get the iPads into a usable condition, but this was certainly a learning curve. I have since set up another class set of iPads for another department in college and it probably took me about an hour.
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[…] had been two main challenges. The first was around the technology. I learned a lot about bringing a set of iPads together to create a class set. I also had a very steep learning curve in what to do with the iPads […]