This document provides instructions for performing various tasks on the iPad, including putting the iPad to sleep or powering it off, adjusting the volume, searching for apps, zooming in and out, exiting apps, taking screenshots, using the symbols keyboard, copying and pasting text, checking Wi-Fi settings, creating folders, docking apps, force closing apps, using multi-tasking gestures, enabling "Speak Selection", changing the side switch functionality, and saving images from Safari. The tasks cover basic device set up and use, as well as more advanced features.
3. Power off
1. Press and hold the power
button for approximately
4 seconds.
2. Slide the red arrow over to
power off.
4. Volume Controls
1. On the side of the iPad, press the volume
button on the top to turn up the volume.
5. Search iPad
1. Press the home button to get to the
home screen
2. Press the home button again
3. Tap the white search bar
4. Using the keyboard, type
the name of the app you
are looking for (try
eSpark to practice)
6. Zoom
1. Put two fingers on the screen; drag them
apart and pinch them together to zoom
in and zoom out
7. Exit an app
1. Open eSpark
2. To leave the app, you can either
1. Tap the home button once.
2. Use 5 fingers to pinch the screen (if multi-
tasking gestures are enabled).
8. Screenshot
1. Press and hold the power
button and the home button
at the same time.
2. Find and open photos.
3. Find your screen shot.
9. Symbols keyboard
1. Find and open the “Notes” app.
2. Touch the note paper on the screen.
3. While the keyboard is active, tap
to access numbers.
4. Tap to access symbols.
5. Write two sentences to test out your
typing capabilities on the iPad.
10. Copy/Paste
1. Find and open the “Notes” app.
2. Type five words of text.
3. Double tap one word. The Copy and
Paste menu will pop up.
4. Hold a blue circle and drag it to highlight
the text you want to copy. Tap “copy.”
5. Press and hold another place in the
sentence until a bubble appears.
Tap “paste.”
11. Wi-fi Settings
1. Tap Settings.
2. Tap “Wi-Fi” on the menu.
3. Identify the name of the
wireless network you are
using.
12. Create a folder
1. Hold your finger down on eSpark
until it wiggles.
2. Drag the eSpark app icon on top of
another app. Hold until the folder (black
rectangle) appears.
3. Drag the app into the folder.
4. Touch the in the white bar. Rename
the folder “Sight Words”. Tap “Done.”
5. Tap the home button.
13. Dock an app
1. Find eSpark.
2. Hold your finger down on the eSpark app
icon until it wiggles.
3. Drag the icon to the bottom
of the page into the dock.
4. Press the home button.
14. Force Close
1. Open eSpark.
2. Press the home button.
3. Double click the home button.
4. Find eSpark in
the fast app switcher
dock.
5. Press and hold the app icon until it
wiggles.
6. Tap the red circle to force close.
7. Press the home button again.
15. Four-finger swipe
1. Tap Settings.
2. Tap “General” on the side
menu and scroll to multi-
tasking gestures.
3. Turn multi-tasking gestures
on.
4. Swipe the screen right to
left with four fingers. Now you can
switch between apps easily.
16. Speak Selection
1. Tap Settings.
2. Tap “General” on the side menu.
Tap “Accessibility”
3. Tap “Speak Selection.”
4. Turn “Speak Selection” on and
slide the circle to the turtle.
5. Try it! Go to a webpage, highlight text,
and touch “speak.”
17. Side Switch Use
1. Change the side-switch functionality by
tapping Settings>General>Use Side Switch to:
2. Choose whether you want the Side Switch to
work as a Mute button or a Rotation Lock.
18. Save an Image
1. Search Safari and find a picture of a cat.
2. Tap the image and hold.
3. Touch “Save Image,”
4. Go to the Photos App and find the image
you saved.