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iPad wakes up when cover is opened & goes to sleep when closed Cover Clip
TRY IT Open the cover. Tip: Tuck your right thumb between the cover and the iPad just above the clip and push while you use the tip of your right index finger to pull on the edge of the clip. Its kind of stiff, so it takes a bit of effort.
Youll notice that the iPad2 (iPad from here on) is on when you open it. Hidden magnets in the cover wake the iPad up when you open it and put it to sleep when you close it.
TRY IT Close the cover (most of the way if you dont want to wrestle with the clip again) and listen for a click. Thats the iPad going to sleep. Now open it again. Its automatically awake. Pretty nifty.
Ok, now that weve got it open, lets take a moment to look more closely at the cover. The cover is designed to not only protect the iPad but to also be used as a stand for the iPad.
Left corner clips pop free easily to let cover act as iPad stand
Edge & right corner clips hold the iPad in the cover
Two grooves for different stand positions The cover attaches to the iPad with clips at the right corners and the top and bottom edge. The clips at the left corners, near the spine, pop free easily to let the cover act as a stand for the iPad.
To use the cover as a stand, pop free the clips on the left side, along the spine, rotate the iPad counterclockwise until it is sideways and tilt the bottom edge forward (the back of the cover will bend along a crease) until it rests in one of the two grooves in the cover.
TRY IT Use the cover as a stand. Use the two grooves to stand the iPad up in both positions. Dont worry if the iPad falls asleep while youre figuring this out. Were just propping up the iPad for now and can wake it up later. Eventually, youll be able to do this quickly and easily.
To re-engage the cover, simply tuck the bottom edge of the iPad back into the spine and lay the iPad flat on the desk or table. Give the corner clips a gentle pinch to make sure theyre seated. You can now turn the iPad clockwise and pick it up like a book. You can also tuck the front cover completely underneath the iPad by folding it at the spine until it is resting against the back cover. You can either hold it like this or lay it on the table.
TRY IT Re-engage the cover and then fold the cover behind the iPad. If you need to wake it up, you can (mostly) close and then open it.
You can even turn the iPad upside down and it will still automatically rotate so that the screen is rightway up. You may notice that not all apps rotate the screen automatically and need to be held a certain way. This varies from app to app. TRY IT Rotate the iPad so that any direction is up. Note that it keeps that orientation when you lay it flat.
Volume
The only button on the front of the iPad (bottom center), the Home Button has several functions, including waking the iPad up, exiting programs, returning to the Home screen, and more. Well look at these a little later. You may press the Sleep/Power Button (along the top edge in the right corner) briefly to put the iPad to sleep or press and hold it to begin turning the iPad off. The Mute switch (right edge near the top) will mute ONLY the system sounds for the iPad by pushing it to the down position. Music and app sounds will not be muted. I rarely ever use this switch and instead turn the volume down using the volume button. I just leave it in the up position all the time. The top half of the Volume button (right edge near the top) turns the volume (for the system, music, apps, everything) up and the bottom half turns the volume down. Well try each of these as we go along.
The screen that comes up when you turn the iPad on is called the Home screen. It looks something like the image on the left. You can get to this screen by pressing the Home button (if you are in an app, you might need to press the Home button once to exit the app and then again to get to the Home screen). If you are already on the Home screen, pressing the Home button will take you to the iPad search screen, shown on the right. Pressing the Home button again will take you back to the Home screen. Well talk more about what to do on these screens shortly. TRY IT Press the Home button. Where does it take you? Press it again. How about now? Repeat, if necessary, until you are back on the Home screen.
3d. Volume
When you press either the top or bottom part of the Volume button (right edge of iPad, near top corner), the Volume icon will appear in the center of the screen. You can press briefly to increase or decrease the volume gradually, or press and hold to do so quickly. TRY IT Adjust the volume up and down. We can verify this once were running apps with audio.
Were going to skip the Mute switch (right edge of iPad, above Volume). Just leave it in the up position.
Now that weve covered buttons, lets look at whats on the screen. The Home Screen (shown above) displays several icons for apps (which are small programs that run on the iPad) spaced evenly across the upper part of the screen. Also, youll notice a row of apps lined up along the bottom of the screen. Just above those apps, youll see a row of dots (similar to those shown below).
Each dot represents an additional screen of apps. Currently, the left-most dot is brighter than the others. Thats the screen you are currently on the Home Screen. To get to the next screen, simply swipe your finger across the screen from right to left (like youre flicking the page of a book). Youll see the Home screen slide off the left side and be replaced by the next screen. Note how the next dot is now bright. Do that again to get to the next screen. To go the other way, swipe your finger from left to right (like youre flicking back a page in a book). You can even get to the Search screen this way (it sits to the left of the Home screen, and is indicated by a small magnifying glass to the left of the dots). Note how the icons lined up along the bottom of the screen stay put, no matter what screen you are on. This is where you can put icons for your favorite apps, so that you can get to them quickly from any screen (more on moving app icons around later). You can also get back to the Home screen from any screen by pressing the Home button. TRY IT Use your finger to flip back and forth between all the screens (including the search screen). Now flip to another screen and use the Home button to get back to the Home Screen.
Youll also notice, along the top of the iPad screen, a thin bar with some indicators. Wireless signal strength Play (music is playing)
Time
On the left is the word iPad (very helpful), followed by a wireless signal meter. In the middle is the time. On the right, you may see various indicators, depending on what is running (this one shows a play triangle, which would mean that music is playing), followed by the battery meter.
5. App Folders
You will notice that some of the icons on the iPad screens look like small, black boxes with rounded corners. These are actually folders that contain related apps. If you touch one of these icons, it will expand to show the apps within. To exit the folder, touch anywhere outside of it or press the Home button. TRY IT Find an app folder icon (there should be one on the Home Screen named Photography) and touch it to open the folder. Then touch outside the folder to close it. Then open it and use the Home button to exit the folder.
Many apps provide you with an opportunity to enter text. The iPad has an onscreen keyboard that can be used for this purpose. We will practice this with the Notes app.
The Notes app is a virtual legal pad where you can type in any kind of note. You can see a list of existing notes by touching the Notes button in the upper left corner of the screen, or create a new note by touching the + button in the upper right corner of the screen.
The title of the note is the first line of text on the note, and the list will show the notes in chronological order. The current note displayed is indicated by a red pencil circle around the title and date. To pull up another note, just touch its title in the list.
Just touch the screen anywhere on the notepad itself and a keyboard will pop up. In landscape mode, the keyboard is less cramped and can be easier to type on. Still, the keyboard is very sensitive, and it will take some practice to get the hang of typing. TRY IT Create a new note by touching the + button in the upper right corner of the screen. Type a few lines of text. Dont worry about mistakes. Well fix those shortly. A couple of things to know about how the iPad attempts to help you type. First, it will automatically activate the shift key to capitalize the first letter in any sentence (after a period, beginning of a new line, etc.) . It will also automatically add a period to the end of a sentence if you type two adjacent spaces. It will also spell-check on the fly, suggesting a new word and then helpfully replacing what you type with the new word if you dont tell it not to. While these can indeed be helpful, they are also the source of universal frustration and, sometimes, amusement (there are entire web sites dedicated to humorous Apple spell-check replacements). It does require a bit of patience at times.
Most of the keys do not require much in the way of explanation, but a couple do. The shift key, for instance, has several states, which dictate how letters appear when you type. The shift keys are located in the usual spot, at the left and right end of the lower row of letters, and have an upward arrow on them. The color of this key indicates what state it is in: Hollow black arrow: Shift key off all letters typed will be lower case Hollow blue arrow: Auto-shift at beginning of sentences only the next letter will be capitalized Solid blue arrow: Shift key on (after single touch) only the next letter will be capitalized White arrow on blue background: Shift lock on (after quick double touch) all letters will be capitalized To turn off the shift key from any of the active modes (regular, auto, or lock), simply touch the shift key once.
The .?123 key will bring up the numeric keyboard (shown above), which has the numbers and most of the punctuation, and the UNDO key. The ABC key will take you back to the regular keyboard. The #+= button will take you to a second punctuation keyboard (shown below).
This keyboard has other punctuation and the REDO key. Again, the ABC key will take you back to the regular keyboard and the 123 key will take you back to the numeric keyboard.
The backspace key is in the upper right corner of all keyboards and has a boxy left-pointing arrow with an X on it. The globe key only shows up if you have defined an International Keyboard (Russian, Korean, etc.). On all keyboards, the lower right key (the one that looks like a keyboard with a down arrow underneath it) will hide the keyboard. If you want to bring it back, just touch the screen again. TRY IT Play around with the shift key to put it into its various modes and see how they affect the letters you type. Then switch to various keyboards to type letters, numbers, and punctuation.
If you touch and hold your finger approximately where you want the cursor to go, a magnifying glass will appear just above your finger, showing where the cursor will be when you remove your finger. Slide your finger around to move the cursor where you want it, as shown in the magnifying glass, and then let go when its where you want it. This also takes a bit of practice to master, but it does help greatly to get the cursor to where it needs to be for you to make your edit. When you let go, you will also see a little pop-up menu with Select | Select All | and Paste. Select will select the nearest word, Select All will select everything on the page, and Paste will paste the last thing that was cut or copied. Or just start typing to ignore those options and make the pop up menu go away.
If you do select or select all, you will see the boundaries of the select and a new popup menu with Cut|Copy|Paste (and, if youve selected a single word, Replace). You can drag the left or right bars at the ends of the select boundaries to expand or shrink your selection (the pop-up menu will remain). If you drag the selection boundary close to the end of a paragraph, the selection may change to a selection box. You can drag the edges of the box to expand or shrink the selection. If you shrink the selection to within a paragraph, it will revert to the selection area shown above. Cut will remove the selected text and place it on the clipboard, Copy will leave the text and place a copy of it on the clipboard, Paste will remove the text and paste what was previously cut or copied, and Replace will provide a list of similarly spelled words from the iPads spell-check dictionary. TRY IT Type some text and then try placing the cursor somewhere in the middle of what you typed to add a word. Now try selecting a word. Click Replace to see what other words the iPad suggests. Select another word and then drag the boundaries of the selection to select a second or third word. Try dragging the selection boudary to include more. Try cutting, copying, and/or pasting.
8c. Autocorrect
Oh, what a mixed blessing is Autocorrect. Sometimes it works very well, but other times, it will replace a proper name (or some other word it doesnt recognize) with something completely different (and, in some cases, hilariously inappropriate). When you type a word it doesnt recognize, it will pop up the correction above it with a little X. If you click this X before moving on to the next word (with the spacebar), it will keep the word you typed (and will eventually remember it). If you dont, it will replace what you typed with the correction. This is a universal experience with Apple products.
9. Connecting to a Network
Our iPad uses WiFi, which means that it needs to communicate with a wireless network in order to browse the internet. Do not panic if you dont know what this means. Wireless signal strength
You can see whether or not the iPad is currently on a network simply by looking in the upper left-hand corner. If you see the Wireless signal strength meter next to the word iPad, then your iPad is connected to a wireless network. If not, then it isnt.
If you do not see the Wireless signal strength meter, touch the Settings icon on the Home page.
Once in the Settings control panel, look for the Wi-Fi menu item on the left and touch it. This will open the Wi-Fi settings panel on the right. You need to make sure that Wi-Fi is set to ON at the top (if it is OFF, simply flick the switch on the screen to the right with your finger so that it is ON). You should see a list of available networks under Choose a Network. If Ask to Join Networks is ON, you may be prompted to join an available network from either the Home screen or from an app once the iPad
detects an available network. If you do not want the iPad to do this, you may turn this feature OFF (flick the switch on the screen to the left with your finger).
Touch this
Not this
To connect to the catuskynet2 network, touch the name of the network. Do not touch the blue arrow on the right side. That will take you to the network settings, which is not what you want to do right now. You will be prompted for your username and password.
When prompted, enter your campus username and press the Return key on the right, then enter your password and press the Join key (which has replaced the Return key).
You may be taken to a Certificate screen with information on a Not Verified certificate. If so, click the Accept button.
If you entered your username and password correctly, you will return to the Wi-Fi control panel and will see a check mark next to catuskynet2 and the Wireless Signal Meter in the upper left corner. Congratulations, you are now on the network and can use features such as the Safari Browser. Press the Home button below the screen to return to the Home screen.
touch this
To do this, follow the same steps as above, except that instead of touching the name of the network, you will touch the blue arrow to the right.
You will be taken to the settings for the active network. At the top, you will see a Forget this Network button. Press this button and you will be disconnected from the network and your connection information (username and password) will be forgotten. TRY IT Go into the Wi-Fi settings and, if not already connected, connect to a network. Then have the iPad forget the settings and then connect to the network again.
Back
Forward
Add/Send/Print
Address Field
Reload
Search Field
Switch Pages
Bookmarks
Like most browsers, the controls are located along the top of the screen. From left to right, they are Back Go back a page Forward Go forward a page (after youve gone back) Switch Pages Switch between different browser pages, each with its own web site open Bookmarks Pick from a list of bookmarked sites Add/Send/Print Add page to bookmarks (or as an app icon to the Home Screen), Send web address through e-mail, or Print page (assuming iPad is connected to a wireless printer) Address Field Type a web address (http://www.catawba.edu for example) to go to a web page Reload Reload the current web page Search Field Type a search term to search Google Touch each of the controls to use them. When you touch the address or search fields, the keyboard will pop up to allow you to enter text. One thing you should note is that while the Search Field uses the regular keyboard (except theyve replaced the Return key with a Search key), the Address Field uses a slightly different keyboard.
The main difference between the Address Field keyboard and the regular keyboard is that the space bar has been replaced by punctuation commonly used in web addresses (and .com). This is because web addresses are not allowed to contain spaces, and it saves you from having to switch back and forth
between the punctuation keyboard and the regular keyboard when typing a web address. Also, the Return key has been replaced with a Go key that will attempt to go to the web address that youve typed. TRY IT Touch the Address Field and type http://www.catawba.edu then touch the Go key. Then touch the Search Field and search for Catawba College. Then touch the Bookmark icon and select Catawba College from the list of Bookmarks.
Touching the Switch Pages icon will bring up a grid of thumbnails for pages Safari currently has open (if any). Touch a page to switch to it. You can also close one of the open pages by touching the X in the upper left corner of the thumbnail. If you want to keep the page you currently have open and start a new page, look for an empty spot in the grid that says New Page. Since Safari can have up to 9 pages open at once, you may have to close one of the pages if they are all full. The Switch Pages icon will display the number of pages currently open if there are more than one open at the same time. TRY IT Connect to the Catawba College page if you have not already done so (see the previous TRY IT). Touch the Switch Pages icon and open up a new page. Then touch the Bookmark icon and select the CLB Library Home bookmark. Then touch the Switch Pages icon and switch back to the Catawba College page.
If you touch and hold a link, you will get a menu that lets you choose whether to open the link (same as touching the link), open the link in a new page, or copy the web address. TRY IT From the Catawba College web site, touch the Cat-U menu item to drop down the Cat-U menu. Then touch Bookstore to open the bookstore web site. Notice that the Switch Pages icon number has increased. Touch Switch Pages and go back to the Catawba College page. Touch the Close link in the upper right corner of the Cat-U dropdown menu to close the menu.
TRY IT On the Catawba College web site, scroll down to the bottom of the page. In the lower right corner is a Stay Connected window with Catawba related feeds to Twitter, Facebook, etc. The feeds contain a scrollable list of posts. Place both fingers in the window and slide them up to scroll through the list of posts. You may want to zoom the page in first, both to make the posts easier to read and to make the window larger to give yourself more room to maneuver. If the whole screen moves around and/or shrinks or grows, remove your fingers and try again. This may take practice to master.
Many web sites require some kind of text entry, such as providing username and password, filling out a form, etc. This is fairly straight-forward. Touch the field to bring up the keyboard. Type to enter text in the field. You can use the Next and Previous buttons just above the keyboard on the left side to move from field to field, or you can touch each field to switch to it. When youre done, just touch the Submit button on the web page.
TRY IT From the Catawba site, touch the Cat-U menu item to drop down the Cat-U menu. On the left side, touch the Username field under CatLink. Notice when the keyboard comes up that the auto-shift is on. Touch the shift key to turn it off, then type your name (watch out for auto-correct). Touch Next and then type your password (iPad never auto-shifts or auto-corrects passwords, thankfully). Touch the Login button on the page to login (you can also touch the Go key). This should bring up Catlink in a new page. Click the Logout icon in the upper right corner of the Catlink page, then touch the Switch Pages icon and close the bweb.catawba.edu page (thats the Catlink page). That should cover most of the browser features you need.
TRY IT Plug the adapter into an outlet, then plug the small end of the USB cable into the adapter, then plug the large end of the cable (with the printed rectangle symbol facing up) into the bottom of the iPad.
The iPad will chirp and the Battery Meter in the upper right corner will change to show a lightning bolt inside the battery icon. When the iPad is fully charged, the Battery Meter will read 100% and will change to show an electrical plug inside the battery icon. It generally takes 3 to 4 hours to fully charge the iPad while it is off or sleeping after its battery is depleted. It will take less time if the battery is only partly depleted. It will take longer if the iPad is in use while it is charging.
You may also plug the iPad into a powered USB port in a computer. However, this will not provide the iPad with enough power to charge it while it is in use (you will see the phrase Not Charging next to the Battery Meter). It will charge the iPad while it is asleep or off, but will do so VERY slowly.