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Notability
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<h2>Notability</h2>
<p class="show">You can use Notability to combine pictures, text, drawing.  It's a great tool to mark up graphs, and some of our assignments!  It works with any pdf file as well.

<p class="show">Using Notability, you can do these things to a pdf:
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<li>Insert empty pages into a pdf.
<li>Insert a "textbox" and type text anywhere.
<li>Use a pen tool to draw freehand anywhere.  Or use it to draw and adjust straight lines to fit data...
<li>Insert pictures or photos that you take with your iPad.
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<h3>Get Notability</h3>
<p class="show"><img src="0g/notabilityapp.jpg" class="leftalign"> Notability is a paid app, but you can get it for free from the GC App Store:
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<li> Open the Safari browser from your iPad and go to <b>appstore.goshen.edu</b>
<li>If prompted, log in with your Goshen College email address and password.
<li>If prompted, tap Allow
<li>Tap the Get Code button next to where Notability is listed
<li>Once it appears, <b>tap on the code</b> to install it
<li> If prompted, sign in with your Apple ID and password
<li>Tap Redeem

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<h3>Using Notability</h3>
<p class="show">When you download a .pdf file on your iPad, you have the option to <b>Open with</b> Notability.  Do that, and you'll be asked if you want to import the pdf into a new or existing note.  (Choose 'new').

<p class="screencast"><a href="https://youtu.be/zGtb1ABjsKM">Open a pdf handout from our site, and edit in Notability</a> - Narrated 4 minutes.
<p>Once in, you can <b>move around</b> within your pdf by dragging with two fingers.  (Sometimes you can drag one finger to scroll, but watch out: If you're in drawing mode, you'll draw a line instead of scrolling around. The two-finger drag will scroll in all modes.)

<h4>Typing notes / responses on your pdf file</h4>
<p>You'll insert a textbox, type text, then move and/or format the text:<br>
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<ul><li>Make sure the <b>text tool</b> is selected.
<li>Then you can <b>tap anywhere</b> in the pdf to insert a text box.  (Don't worry about tapping at just the right location, you can always move the text box later on.
<li>You'll see the <b>formatting palette</b> above the keyboard.  You can select text characteristics before typing, or later, select the text and re-format it.
<li><b>Type</b> and your text appears in the textbox.
<li>Grab the <b>handle</b> of the textbox to move it around.
<li>You can grab any <b>corner</b> of the textbox to re-size it.
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<h4>Draw a straight line</h4>
<ul><li>Tap the pencil icon to get in drawing mode
<li>Put your finger on the screen at one point on the line.
<li>Drag your finger away from that initial point.  You'll draw a wavy (freehand) line, but <b>keep your finger down a little longer</b> and the line will change from a wavy one to a straight line!
<li>Now as you move your finger around you are moving the final point on your line segment.  When you have it where you want it, lift off your finger.
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<h4>Use the scissors tool...to modify a line</h4>
<p>Once you've drawn a straight line, you can use the "scissors" tool to circle a line to "select" it.  (Dragging the scissors around any part of the line is enough to select it.)
<p>Once the line has been selected, you can use one finger to drag it around and move it to a different place.  You can use two fingers to change the angle of the line.  In this way you move a line around (like you would move a ruler) to fit some data points "by eye" with a trend line.

<h4>Add a page to your document</h4>
<img src="0s/NotabilityAddPage.gif" class="rightalign"><ol>
<li>Tap the pages icon at the far right to open the visual list of pages in your document.
<li>Tap the image of one of the pages in your document to select it.
<li>Tap the image of that page again, and a menu will show up that let's you "Add Page".  A new, blank page will be added just *after* the page you've selected.
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<p>You can use a new page as a handy place to put a full size screenshot, or a snapshot of your calculations into your report.

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<h3>Handing things in</h3>
<p>To "hand in" a lab pdf that you make in Notability there are two ways to do it:  a long way and a short way.

<p><b>The long way</b> takes less setup, but is longer :->.  Here's what you do:

<ol><li>Click the "left arrow" if you're editing your document to see the list of all your Notability notes.
<li><img src="0s/iPadShareIcon.gif" style="width:50px" class="rightalign">Click the share icon, click the note you want to share and click the share icon a second time.
<li>Select Google Drive as the destination and "pdf" as the format.
<li>Export to Google Drive.<br><br>
<li>Then, you open Safari and navigate to Moodle.
<li>Find the place to upload your lab.  Click upload and select Google Drive as your source.
<li>Choose your pdf and go!
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<p><b>The short way</b> involves a one-time setup:  Watch 
the first 90 seconds of this video to find out how to 
<a href="https://youtu.be/hJSVioA3QN8">set up Notability to automatically back up its notes to your Google Drive</a>.  (Choose the "PDF + Recording" option that Erin talks about).   

<p>Once you've done that, when you want to upload to Moodle, you just follow the last 3 steps of the "long" process above.  

<h3>Optional: Get Gboard</h3>
<p class="show"><img src="0s/glidetype.jpg" class="rightalign">If you aren't connecting a physical keyboard to your iPad typing can be slow.  <br><br>
"Gboard" is an alternate keyboard for the iPad (produced by Google) which enables you to do "glide typing", which some people find speeds up typing on a tablet.  For example,  to type the word "faster" you put your finger down on f and then drag your finger tip through a s t e r.  



<p><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gboard-a-new-keyboard-from-google/id1091700242"><img src="0s/gboard.jpg" class="leftalign">Gboard</a> is a free app.  Install it from the App Store.  After you've downloaded it, you'll need to change your Settings to allow it to work. Tap the app icon and you'll get instructions to follow.



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