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The following steps will make working with your iPad more efficient and effective.
Settings
Rename your iPad
Because you will be airdropping documents to your professors and classmates, you should rename your iPad so they will be able to identify the originator of documents.
Apple: Change the Name of your iPad
Turn on Dictation
Throughout your nursing courses, instructors might ask you to write a reflection after a particular activity. An easy way to do this is to dictate your reflection right after the activity. Before you can use your iPad to dictate, you need to enable it in settings.
Apple: Dictate text while using an Apple external keyboard
Create your Contact Card
Your instructors and classmates will want to be able to contact you. The easiest way is to create a contact card on your iPad and share that with others.
Apple: Add your contact info on iPad
Customize your Control Center
You can customize your control center to easily access some helpful tools.
Apple: Use and customize Control Center on iPad
Sign in to OneDrive
OneDrive is the place at Elon to store all your school-related documents. You will be able to access OneDrive from any device logged into Elon and you can easily share documents with classmates and professors. Before you can save to OneDrive on your iPad, you need to sign in with your Elon credentials and then add it to the Files app.
Elon: OneDrive for iOS Devices
Apple: Connect external devices or servers with Files on iPad
Organization
Create Folders and Add Apps to the Dock
You can organize apps on your iPad into folders and add your most used apps to the dock so that you can more easily find and use your apps.
Apple: Move and organize apps on iPad
Search for Items
You can use the iPad search feature to look for apps, documents, email messages, and information on the Internet.
Apple: Use iPad to search