2. Commonalities Home Button
To open an app, simply tap on the icon. To
minimize the app, press the home button. To fully
close the app, double press the home button,
hold the app until it shakes, then press the minus
sign.
Many apps have common symbols that perform
specific tasks, just like icons in MicroSoft Office
applications. Knowing these symbols will help
you acclimate to new apps.
3. Multitasking Bar
The multitasking bar allows you to
quickly swap between recently opened
apps. Double tap the Home button to
bring up the bar. This reveals the most
recently opened apps. If you swipe
your finger from right to left, it shows
more of your favorite apps.
4. Multitasking Gestures
Rather than pressing the home button, simply use
your fingers to quickly navigate between apps. Swipe
left or right with four fingers to switch between open
apps. Slide up with four fingers from the bottom of
the screen to reveal the multitasking bar, or pinch
four fingers together to return to the home screen. If
you find that you use these gestures accidentally you
can turn them off. Open settings, tap general, and
turn off multitasking gestures.
5. Closing Apps
While having apps open in the
multitasking bar can be handy, some
of them can drain the battery. To
close apps, double tap the home
button to bring it up. T and hold an
ap
icon until it starts to shake. Now tap
on the small minus symbol that has
appeared on the app icon.
6. Orientation and Mute
Open Settings, tap General, and find Use
Side Switch. Choose Lock Screen if you
want the switch to lock the rotation, or
Mute if you want the switch to make the
iPad silent. You can easily access the other
option you don’t choose from the
Multitasking Bar and then swipe across it
to the right. On the far left side, an icon will
show the option you didn’t select.
7. Move and Delete Apps
You can move the icons around on your
iPad and delete apps you no longer use.
Hold your finger on any icon for a few
seconds and they will all start to shake. You
can now drag them around to rearrange.
You can also move them to other pages by
dragging the icon to the edge of the current
screen to go to the next page. The little
cross on the corner of downloaded apps
allows you to delete them.
8. Customizing Dock
The dock at the bottom of the screen can
hold your most used applications. While
moving apps around, just drag the app you
want down to the dock. Now they will
appear on every page. The dock will hold up
to 6 icons.
Recommended apps on the dock are:
Settings, Photos, iBooks, Safari, App Store,
Tango (K-2), Camera
9. Making Folders
Folders allow you to group similar apps
together to help save screen space. While
organizing your apps, drag one app icon on
top of another. This then creates a folder
with both apps inside. You can then name
the folder to reflect the apps it contains. To
move more apps into a particular folder,
simply return to the main screen and drag
the other apps onto the folder icon. You can
put up to 20 apps in each folder.
10. Creating App Icons
You can add a new app icon for any website to
your home screen. While browsing in safari, tap
the arrow button and then tap add to home
screen. Some websites supply an icon; if not
then a screenshot of the current view is used.
You can also rename the icon.
Practice this skill by creating an icon for
GroupWise Web mail. Don’t forget to check
the box next to Use the basic interface.
11. Bookmarking
Safari on the iPad comes with a Bookmarks
Bar that you can use to quickly access your
favorite web pages. By default this is
displayed when you go to type something in
the address bar. To make the Bookmarks
Bar visible at all times, go to Settings then
Safari. Turn on Always show Bookmarks
Bar.
12. Save Safari Images
While browsing Safari you can save
images you like. T and hold an
ap
image until a pop-up appears. Choose
Save Images. This will now be saved
in your saved Photos album. Launch
the Photos app to view the image.
13. Taking a Screenshot
To take a screenshot, just press the
Home button and the Sleep/Wake
button at the same time. The iPad
screen flashes white quickly and
plays a camera shutter sound. The
image will be saved in the Photos
app.
14. Search Feature
Do a rightward swipe from the main screen
(to access the next screen to the left) and
you'll bring up a search screen. Type the name
of the song, artist, file or app that you're
looking for in the search box and whoop there
it is!
To customize, go to Settings/General/
Spotlight Search.
15. Security Settings
NEISD has specific security settings
located in Settings/General/
Restrictions. It is password protected
and in most cases set up by your
ITS. Please see your campus ITS for
the passcode.
16. Speak Selection
Want to select text from websites, emails,
iBooks, and more? Speak Selection lets you
highlight text in any application by double
tapping it. Even if you don’t have VoiceOver
enabled, Speak Selection will read you the
highlighted text and give you formatting options
like cut, copy, and paste. Turn on Speak
Selection in Settings/General/Accessibility/
Speak Selection.
17. Cut/Copy/Paste
Double tap a word you wish to cut or
copy. For more than one word, drag
your finger across the multiple words
to select them. T cut or copy.
ap
Navigate to the area where you wish
to insert the text. Double tap the area
or touch and hold to press the paste
button.
18. Split Keyboard
Typing while holding the iPad can
be awkward. To split the keyboard,
place both your thumbs in the center
of the keyboard and swipe them
away to the edge of the screen. To
return to the joint keyboard, simply
tap and slide the hide keyboard icon
down. It will merge and dock back to
its original form.
19. iBooks and PDFs
You can open PDF documents, such as a
PDF attached to an email, with iBooks.
When you view a PDF email attachment,
simply tap "Open in iBooks," located in the
upper-right corner of the screen. iBooks
will open and you'll be able to view your
PDF using the iBooks app.
20. Using Graphic Organizers
Find the QR Code reader app on your
iPad. Scan the code or type the following
address in Safari:
http://bit.ly/JdpW14
Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers
PDFs such as this can then be used in an
annotation app such as Doodle Buddy.
21. Magnify
T hand hold your finger on some
ap
text to bring up a magnifying glass.
Drag to move the magnifying glass
around and place the cursor where
your need it.
22. Customizing Wallpaper
T the Settings app and then select Brightness and
ap
Wallpaper. T the images below to bring up the
ap
wallpaper settings. At the top of the page, you'll find
the iPad's default images followed by your own
pictures (if you've synchronized photos). T any
ap
image to bring up the full-screen view. Now, you've
got three options: set the lock screen, home screen,
or both. You're done!
23. Typing Tips
Double tap the space bar to automatically add a period to the end of a sentence.
You can hold down some keys such as letters or punctuation to bring up extra options, for example tap
and hold the ! key to use the apostrophe.
Double tap the UP arrow for shift lock.
If you see a red dotted underline on a word you can tap this and suggestions for alternative words
automatically appear.
When typing an email address
24. Restarting Properly
A hard-reboot can help to get your iPad going
again. If an application refuses to start or your iPad
has frozen, just press and hold the Home button
and Sleep/Wake button together for ten seconds.
Ignore the slide to power off message and the iPad
shuts down. Now just turn the iPad on normally and
it should be working perfectly again.
