I’ve been asked by several teachers lately how students can submit assignments from the iPads to the teacher.
The problem with
many of the solutions you find online is that they are designed for schools
that have a 1:1 iPad program where each student has his/her own iPad all the
time. In our current situation, where we
share classroom sets of iPads that may be in your classroom today but in
another teacher’s room tomorrow, and where students/teachers can’t install a
particular application that stays logged in all the time, it is harder. Another problem is that many apps require
students to login using email addresses (which many of our elementary students
do not have). Add to the mix that we are
limited to Free or Low cost apps, and the task seems difficult indeed!
However, I do
have several suggestions. There are
several free APPS that allow the teacher to create a class and allow students
to create accounts in that class without using email addresses. The two that come to my mind immediately are
Edmodo and Showbie. Once you have
created your class account, you give the code to the students so that they can
join your class. Any assignment they
create or upload will be visible by you.
I know that Showbie
will actually allow you to create documents from within the APP. I’m not sure about Edmodo. If not, then there are other free APPS that
can then be shared with or opened in Edmodo or Showbie (or even copied and
pasted into Edmodo or Showbie) in order to submit them to the teacher. I use a 99-cent app called Notability and also
the free apps, Side by Side and Documents Free (plus others that require
permanent email logins). Several of
these apps will also allow you to use the microphone on the iPad to convert
speech to text for students who have difficulty with typing (or for those of us
too lazy to use the iPad keyboard).
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