Keeping Wayward Wanderings on iPads at Bay

Here are some great tips for you to use if you are an iPad school:

(shared by Sandy Armstrong, Drake Middle School, Auburn, AL)

To keep kids in one app (or a webpage(s)) this is what you do (your IPad must be updated to IOS 6):

On IPad :

·       Click settings

·       Click General

·       Click Accessibility  (near bottom of page on right  hand side)

·       Click Guided Access (under Learning on the right hand side of the page)

·       Click On

·       Click Set Passcode

·       Type in a code

·       Type in code again

(You will not have to do that again……this is a one-time set up)

Click Home button to go to main screen

To keep a child working in one app (they can not go to a different unless you change it ):

·       Click app you want the child to work in

·       Click Home button 3 times quickly

·       Click start (in top right hand corner)

Now the child cant exit that app until you click the home button 3 times and put in the passcode.

To keep child in a website(s) (without the ability to type in other website or pick from bookmarks):

·       Click Safari

·       Open website you want the students to work in

·       In another tab, open same website again

·       Click Home button 3 times quickly

·       With your finger, draw a circle around the address bar and bookmark area (a gray area will show around it…make sure the gray area is not covering the 2 tabs of the open websites)

·       Click start (in top right hand corner)

Now your students can work on the webpage…if they click a link that takes them off of the page, then they can click a tab to take them back.