Apple App Information & Tutorials

What is Apple Classroom?

When teaching in class, you can launch a specific app, website, or textbook page. You can also send documents to and receive them from your students, and share student work locally on a TV, monitor, or projector using Apple TV. Finally, you can see which apps students are working in and, at the end of the class, view a summary of how students spent their time.

Resources for Using Apple Classroom

• Apple Classroom User Guide

• Setting Up Your Class (Video)

• Apple Classroom  FAQ
  
  

What is Pages?

Pages is an easy-to-use word processor where students can type reports, create posters, design brochures, and more for school projects right on their iPad

Resources for Using Pages

Coming Soon! Please reach out to your Instructional Technology Specialist if you'd like to use this app but need some assistance!

What is Keynote?
Keynote is a creative presentation app where students can make visually engaging slides filled with images, charts, animations, and more to present research, book reports, group projects, and other academic work from their iPad

Resources for Using Keynote

• How to Use Line Draw

What is Clips?

Clips is a fun, easy video creation app where students can use their iPad to make dynamic videos to document science experiments, create book trailers, practice giving speeches, film class projects, and more without needing any technical skills.

Resources for Using Clips

• Example Student Projects

What is iMovie?

iMovie is a video editing app where students can use clips, photos, and music from their iPad or Mac to make exciting trailers, short documentaries, animated scribe videos, green screen effects, and other creative videos for school projects in a few simple taps.

Resources for Using iMovie

Coming Soon! Please reach out to your Instructional Technology Specialist if you'd like to use this app but need some assistance!

What is Freeform?

Freeform is a flexible canvas/whiteboard app where students can use their iPad to brainstorm ideas, outline essays, solve math problems collaborate on group projects, sketch diagrams, take freeform notes, and organize other schoolwork with an intuitive interface.

Resources for Using Freeform

Coming Soon! Please reach out to your Instructional Technology Specialist if you'd like to use this app but need some assistance!

What is GarageBand?
GarageBand is a fun, intuitive music creation app where students can play keyboards, guitars, and drums or record vocals right on their iPad or Mac to produce songs, podcasts, scores, and other audio projects for music class, presentations, and assignments across the curriculum.

Resources for Using GarageBand

Coming Soon! Please reach out to your Instructional Technology Specialist if you'd like to use this app but need some assistance!

What is Numbers?
Numbers is a smart spreadsheet app that equips students to visually organize data, make detailed calculations, produce stunning charts and graphs, and complete STEM and finance assignments with intuitive features.

Resources for Using Numbers

• Use Numbers as a Whiteboard (Video)

• Student Example - Using Numbers as a Whiteboard (Video)

• Insert a Picture & Use Audio (Video)

What is Schoolwork?
Schoolwork is an Apple app that is only available for the iPad. Schoolwork allows teachers to be able to distribute Apple assignments individually, small group, and whole group more easily than through Schoology or Seesaw. It functions similarly to the Google Assignment integration in Schoology. You'll make the assignment in Schoolwork it will give each student their own copy and you'll have visibility of their progress AND be able to comment while they are working.

There are other uses, as well, such as distributing links, having entire lessons built in there, giving an option for them to turn-in something they created on their own. Schoolwork does not integrate or talk to the Schoology Gradebook. You would need to add a Grade Column in your Gradebook for work completed in Schoolwork.

Students do not log into the app. Teachers' classes will automatically be available if they are previously built in Apple Classroom.

This is not meant to replace Schoology, instead, it may be a better way to complete some assignments depending on the functionality you are looking to have. 

Resources for Using Schoolwork

• Schoolwork Tutorials