11-27-11
The students turned in their iPads so that I
could upgrade them to IOS 5 over the Thanksgiving break. During the summer I
had configured them so that they could be synced using the cart that we had
purchased. I thought that because of the carts ability to hold 30 iPads, we
should be able to expedite the roughly 15 minute per iPad process. So much for
that idea – when 30 were connected to the host computer it could not handle the
multiple syncing and took a bit longer – it took 3 days to get them all synced and required
constant user input from me – Again I was hoping to set it and forget it.
Once all had been synced we found that two had
lost data – for some reason the iPads thought that they had to be restored shortly
after plugging them in - 1 student and 1 faculty.
Once the sync had occurred – we found that
the facetime was reinstalled (we had removed it using restrictions due to
overuse) and we also had to go through a few screens on each iPad to set it up
again – more time
Final Lesson – Budget extra time
One of the new features of the IOS 5 is cloud
storage and syncing wirelessly – the wireless syncing should be rather useful.
When I sign on to the same Wi-Fi as the student I can see all the iPads – could
be good when we want to add an app.
