SMART Notebook is an app that Year 6 students require to access some interactive activities that their teachers have created. This app costs $7.49 and as it's not an app any of you will have a use for after this year, the school will purchase the licenses for you to use throughout 2014.
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| SMART Notebook app |
Using our MDM (mobile device management system), Meraki, we'll provide a link to download the app at no extra cost to you. At the end of the year, we'll revoke this license so we can use it for our 2015 Year 6 students. You'll simple notice one day that the app is no longer installed on your iPad.
In order to manage licenses in this way, we need to invite your Apple ID to participate in our Meraki/VPP account.
The email with the invitation link has to be sent to the email address that is associated with your Apple ID. So if that's not an email account that you can access on your iPad's Mail app, you'll need to ask a parent to check it for you. We've only tested this process on the iPad so I'm not sure how it works if you use a home computer. If you have any trouble with that method, try accessing that email account in Safari on the iPad.
The screenshots below will show you how the process looks. The email you need was sent from "Cisco Meraki" this afternoon around 1pm. You may need to check your Junk folder or search for it. It looks like this:
Click the blue invitation link in the email (in the final paragraph). Your App Store app will open and you'll see a message about joining the school's VPP account. Click OK. Nothing else will happen at this point - your job is done. You have joined the school's account and can now receive any apps we purchase on your behalf.
If you're not signed in to the Apple ID you supplied to us, you'll see the message below. Tap Sign In.
You will then need to enter the correct Apple ID password, to sign into your Apple ID account.
If you see a message saying this:
...then don't worry, it just means you've attempted to link to the account previously and it's worked. Just click OK. You need do nothing more.
Half of the Year 6 students will have their Notebook app already as we pushed it out today to all those Apple IDs which were already associated with the school's VPP account. Once the rest of you have been successfully through the above process, we'll repeat that rollout of the Notebook app. You might have to wait until next Wednesday for that... Plenty of learning to get on with in the meantime though!
If you have any further issues, or questions, please contact Maria (
mmead['at' sign]bne.catholic.edu.au).
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...and a BIG thank you to my fabulous 'guinea pigs' who supplied the screenshots - your help this afternoon, and the generosity of your teacher to have spared you during class, was much appreciated! MM
