Staff iPad FAQ

A: iPads and Apple Pencils can be instrumental in effective instructional practice especially when in hybrid or distance learning environment, and we understand that this is difficult. We want every teacher to be as effective and as engaging as possible and to have the best tools possible to help you be awesome. We encourage you to take a little time to learn how to use these tools, especially in combination with your new Macbook Air to make teaching and learning easier, more effective and more engaging.

These devices are managed by RSU2 the same as your Macbook Air, and the staff computer use policies apply to this device as well. These are expensive devices and there's no guarantee of replacement if damaged. Please use with care.

A: Most of the apps that have been vetted by the school district are either already pushed to the iPad or on Self Service where they can be downloaded. If you need additional apps, please let your technology integrator or IT director know so we can help. We have account credit available in order to purchase apps and push them down to your iPad.

A: There are numerous opportunities for the iPad to make possible new workflows and practices:

• Your iPad becomes an interactive digital whiteboard that is projected to your screen. While traditional SMART boards or Promethean boards anchor the teacher to the front of the room, using an iPad in concert with digital whiteboard apps such as Explain Everything or Google Keep provides the teacher with mobility. An educator can stand at the back of the room or near a student desk while providing instruction on the display at the front of the room.

• Your iPad becomes a recording device for lessons. Record tutorials and lessons in digital whiteboards or other apps and share them easily to Classroom, Seesaw, Google Drive, and more. While you can't record a Google Meet, you CAN record a lesson you're sharing from your iPad (in Explain Everything, for example).

• Your iPad becomes a live document camera. Depending on need and purpose, there are a few different ways to turn your iPad into a document camera that feeds a live image to your projector/display and/or a Meet. This is helpful if you're teaching from home or working with kids in person in the classroom.

• Your iPad becomes a digital clipboard. Taking notes on student progress or recording information from conferences with students? With an Apple Pencil, you can write these notes more naturally while instantly saving and organizing them for access across devices.

• Your iPad becomes a scanner. Using the Notes app, you can easily scan, save, annotate and share papers you have in hard copy.

• Your iPad becomes a second monitor. Need to see your Meet window and share your screen at the same time? Increase your monitor's real estate with Sidecar.

• Your iPad becomes a second camera in Google Meets. Wish kids at home could see you and the rest of the in-person class at the same time? Join the Meet from on your Macbook and join the same Meet from your iPad. Turn the iPad so it faces the class, and presto: you have two camera angles.

A: Your iPad can't share its screen to two locations at the same time, unfortunately, but there are a few simple workarounds:

1. Double-join the Meet

   • Join the Meet from both your MacBook and the iPad (yes, it's okay to use one Google account to join twice) and present your iPad screen in the Meet. To avoid audio feedback, make sure your iPad's device volume is turned all the way down and you've muted the microphone in the Meet on the iPad.

   • On your MacBook, present the Meet window on your projector as you normally would and pin the presented iPad screen for your in-person students

2. Use Quicktime to mirror your iPad screen to your MacBook and present it as a window in the Meet

   • Video instructions: Use the instructions here, but use the iPad normally instead of using it as a document camera.

   • Join the Meet on your MacBook as usual

   • Connect your iPad to your MacBook with the USB-C cable (if a window pops up on your iPad asking you if you trust the laptop, make sure you agree)

   • Open QuickTime Player on your MacBook and go to File > New Movie Recording

   • In the dropdown menu next to the record button, select your iPad as the camera (it will likely have a multi-character code as the device name)

   • Your iPad screen should now appear on your MacBook

   • Present this screen (from your MacBook) on your projector as you normally would, and present this window from the Meet on your MacBook

Yes, if you have a new teacher Macbook Air