Installing apps via Configurator requires removing restrictions and enabling store on iPads

We have several iPad carts which are managed via a MacBook running Apple's Configurator software. We have had a few small problems installing apps, which are apparently caused by the configuration we are trying to use on the iPads.

We have created a configuration that has restrictions set to prevent students from using the iTunes store and to prevent them from installing apps in our managed environment.

These are set like like this:

Having both of these checkboxes appears to prevent Configurator from pushing apps (both paid and unpaid) onto the iPads.  We saw the following symbol in Configurator

and this error in the Console.

To solve this, we had to edit the applied restrictions and apply those to the cart of ipads, and then re-install.  Note - we found that we had to unselect the apps in the configurator, then allow Both Use of iTunes store and Installation of Apps, apply that to the iPads, then go back and try installing Apps.  Simply turning this setting on during the same sync was unsuccessful.

Afterwards, we went back and edited our restrictions back to the original settings, which is how we want it left.

New Teacher Scavenger Hunt

Link for the list of items new teachers need to find on the District website, in their handbook, policies, or the Tech Blog.

  Download this Word document

Editing a group in your web e-mail

If you're using the web-based Washougal e-mail, and you need to modify the Contact group that you created, you can do this: Click the word Mail in the upper left corner Choose Contacts from the drop down list Click the name of the group in the left column Find the people you want to remove, and then check the box next to their name Now click the "more" button, then delete contacts This will remove them from your group and also from your address book online.

iPad Gestures you might find useful

Working with Apple's professional development services, we had an excellent trainer, Anthony, from Apple work with our iPad pilot teachers.  The teachers who participated found the first couple hours with Anthony to be incredibly useful.  Here are some of the most handy tips we got, many of which you may not figure out when you first start using an iPad:

Putting your five fingers on the screen and pinching/squeezing them towards each other will close an open app

 

You can double tap the home button (small circular button at bottom) to open the Multi-task shelf.

You can also do a gesture to get to this:  Four fingers swipe up opens the “multi-task shelf” of recently open apps

Why do you want the multi-task shelf?  The multi-task shelf shows apps that are already open (have been opened recently).  If you swipe to right, will open the another set of apps that you can't find elsewhere!  Rotation lock, brightness, controls for volume; airplay control for connecting to an AppleTV, iTunes forward/back/pause are all found in here.

Four finger swipe side to side scrolls between recently used apps.  So if you've opened Safari, and opened Mail, when you swipe four fingers on the screen from right to left, it'll move from one to the next.  Swiping the same direction again will go to the next last opened app.

To force quit an iPad app, you can use multi-task shelf (four finger swipe up), then press and hold the app.  It will start to "wiggle."  Click the red icon – symbol to force quit it.

Closing (force quitting) doesn’t save memory or impact device use; All it does is reset a “stuck” app. 

To create a folder for apps when you're looking at them on the iPad's home screen, just drag one app on top of another. You can move a folder down to the Dock if you want to keep them there, too.  The folder will open when touched, and let you choose the items inside of it.  

If an app inside a folder has a notification (like Mail with the number of unread messages) that notification will show up on the folder app icon as well.

TPEP Self-Evaluation Tool

As principals and teachers begin to get used to the new Teacher Principal Evaluation Process (TPEP), the following self-evaluation tool can be used to look at current practice and look for ways to continue to improve. 

TPEP eval tool

Turning off the sound on an iPad

One of our staff with an iPad just asked how to turn off the sound.


There's a couple ways to turn off the sound, you can pick whichever is easiest for you.

On the right side of the iPad, toward the top, there's a volume control "rocker switch" which you can push on the down side of multiple times, which will turn the volume to "zero" which is off.  When you push it, you'll see a grey indicator show up on the screen with a volume bar.

Above that switch, there's a small two position switch.  If you push it toward the back of the device, it mutes the device.  Again, you'll get an indicator on the screen, a speaker with a line through it, to tell you you've muted the device.

You can double click the home button (the small round button at the bottom) and then swipe to the right to access the sound controls, too.  This is a handy spot to get into, as it also has controls for the brightness, the music controls, and if you're hooked up to an Apple TV, where you can turn on mirroring for AirPlay.

Voicemail quick reference cards

Here's a printable "quick reference" card for the Norstar voicemail systems in use at Cape/Canyon, Jemtegaard, District Office, Hathaway and the Bus Barn.  Download the .pdf file to print a sheet of these if you want to share with co-workers.


Listen to your new messages: 2
Listen to your saved messages: 6
Replay the message: 11
Replay 9 seconds: 1
Pause/continue: 2
Forward 9 seconds: 3
Skip to the end: 33
Play previous message: 4
Forward a copy: 5
Skip to the next message: 6
Play envelope information: 7
Save a message: 77
Erase the message: 8
Reply to message: 9
Volume control: *