iPads & Apps

1. Ipads and Useful Apps
Nina Goodwin
@GUTS_SW @Cosmic_UK

2. Who are Cosmic?
• Based in Honiton, East Devon;
• An ethical IT business;
• Specialises in website development, IT training courses,
business consultancy, tech support, digital marketing and
search engine optimisation;
• Run a wide range of training sessions and workshops;
• Workshops aimed at small and micro businesses.

3. Introductions

4. Introducing you to your iPads

5. What can I use my iPad for?
• Accessing the internet to check your emails, surf the
web and much more.
• iPads are touchscreen devices and manufactured by
Apple.
• Lots of different versions of ipads for example iPad Mini,
iPad Air all come with pre‐installed apps.

6. What is an app?
An application (app) is a type of shortcut and there are lots
of apps you can get. For example:
App Store where
you can have
access to lots of
different apps;
FaceTime allows
you to make video
and voice calls.
Podcasts allow
you to listen to live
and recorded
audio.

7. Please turn on your ipads

8. What do the buttons do?

9. Activity 1
• Please turn your ipads on and off;
• Turn the volume up and down using the
volume buttons, turn it to mute.
• Pick any app and open it up then press the
home key to get back to the homepage. Try
opening up different apps and going back to
the homepage.

10. Activity 2
• Tap into the notes app, select new at top
right‐hand corner and type a small message,
using letters numbers and symbols.

11. How do I connect to WIFI?
• Go to your settings icon; select the WIFI
option and enter password.

12. Are you connected?
Can you see this symbol in
the top right hand of your
screen?
If so you are connected to
WIFI.

13. Public WIFI
• If you choose to use WiFi in a public place, whether you
are using a smartphone, laptop or tablet. Remember, not
all public WiFi is encrypted, even if you are asked to enter
a password.
• Always think carefully before sharing private details (like
bank details or passwords) in a public place – can it wait
until you are on a secure connection at home?
• Don’t use Apps in public wifi areas.

14. Setting up an Email Account

15. Icons for Different Email Provides

16. Activity 3
• Open and close some of the apps on your iPad, for example,
the calendar, reminders, safari etc.
• Navigate between the different pages of apps on the iPad to
find different apps on the other pages.

17. Activity 4 - Deleting an App
Practice by tapping on an app until all the apps shake (you
can delete an app if you like). To get the apps back to
normal tap on the home button.

18. Further Support & Information
• Your nearest Apple store has free courses that you can
attend;
• Lots of free online learning; type into Google “Using my
iPad”;
• Try YouTube for online video’s.

19. Digital or Die?
@GUTS_SW @Cosmic_UK

21. UK is now a Smart Device Society
• Smartphones overtake laptops as UK internet
users’ number one device;
• We’re spending over two hours online on our
smartphones/tablets every day; twice as long as
laptops and PCs;
• Superfast broadband & 4G is helping change the
way we shop, bank, watch TV and communicate.

22. We, and our customers….
• Touch their phone 215 times a day;
• Have our phone within reach for 14 hours a day;
• Spend 2 hours and 51 mins on their phone (up 30 mins
from 2013)
So, how can we use mobile technology in our businesses to
become more efficient?

23. Useful Apps
Nina Goodwin
@GUTS_SW @Cosmic_UK

24. Check your broadband Speed

25. Need to take meeting notes?
• Works with Drive, Gmail and Google Photos, so you can store
files, save email attachments and back-up photos directly to Drive.
• Save any attachment to your Drive to organize and share them in
a single, safe place.
• Create and collaborate with others. Share documents and files,
build out spreadsheets and make a presentation on the fly with
Google Docs, Sheets and Slides apps.
• Scan all your paper documents with Drive for Android. Just
snap a photo of documents like receipts, letters and statements
and Drive will store them instantly as PDFs.

26. Need to take meeting notes?
• OneDrive is Microsoft’s free cloud storage solution
• Works across all devices, smartphones & tablets
• Up to 15GB of free storage.

27. What’s the plan?
Google Calendar
• See your schedule at a glance;
• Add events from Gmail added
automatically;
• Works with all calendars on your phone.

29. Check my heart rate?
• Real-time heart rate;
• Resting, active, wake up rate;
• Improve your awareness;
• Built into Apple Health and
Google Fit.

30. IFTTT
IF THIS THEN THAT
• Automate processes;
• Upload social photos to
Google Drive;
• Save stories from news
sites;
• When near home text a
contact.

31. Start the Journey
TripLog
• Click to start (auto);
• Click to stop;
• Categorise mileage;
• End of month Spreadsheet;
• Photograph parking tickets and
receipts.

32. Start the journey
• Expensify makes capturing
receipts, tracking time or
mileage, business travel and
creating expense reports quick
and easy;

33. Halve the time it takes to pay
● All RingGo users have unlimited use of the
RingGo apps to pay to park your vehicle;
● Automatically lists nearby zones and
distances;
● Search by location;
● View sites on Google maps;
● Favourite sites stored and recalled
● Shows recent RingGo activity
● Account management

34. 1st Meeting: Breakfast Presentation
Evernote
• Present straight from
Evernote on my phone;
• Write notes in my pad &
Scan notes in;
• Meet new people? Scan
their cards & connect to
LinkedIn.

35. Scannable
• Automatically capture high-quality scans
anywhere;
• Point your camera at documents, expense
receipts, or whiteboards. Scannable
immediately captures them
• Automatically rotates, crops, and adjusts
images so your scans are clear and easy to
read.
• Send documents to colleagues via email
or text, or export them as PDF and JPG files
to Evernote.
• Pull information from business cards and
LinkedIn, add profile photos, and save it all to
your contacts list.

36. Cam Scanner
• Use your phone camera to
scan receipts, notes, invoices,
whiteboard discussions,
business cards, certificates,
• Smart cropping and auto
enhancing make the texts and
graphics look clear and sharp
• Easily share docs in PDF or
JPEG format with others via
social media, email attachment
or sending the doc link

37. National Rail Enquries
• My Travel: Set up personalised travel updates.
Save your favourite journeys and stations. Find the
next train home and get relevant live updates at a
glance.
• Journey Planner - Plan your journeys with up-to-
the-minute travel information and track the progress
of trains and as well as being alerted to disruptions
along your route.
• Real Time Push Notifications - Get disruption
alerts sent straight to your phone or watch as they
happen.
• Wake-up alerts - Avoid missing your stop or getting
caught out when the train divides or arrives at its
destination.
• Intergrates with Apple watch.

38. Bsafe - Lone Working
• Set up your own social personal safety network of friends, family and
coworkers
• Share locations when you'd like to find each other more easily
• Ask friends to walk you home with Follow Me’s live GPS trace, or help
friends stay safer by walking them home from wherever you are
• Use Timer Mode to program an automatic alarm that will trigger if you
have not checked in in time
• Use I’m Here to tell selected people where you are right now
• Use Fake Call to make the phone ring when you want it to. You can even
define who the call should be from
• And in case you are ever in trouble, the Guardian Alert button will
immediately notify your friends and family members that you need help,
and let them know where you are (GPS) and what’s happening (video). It
will even set off a optional siren!

40. Need to collect information?
Google Forms
• Set up your own booking
forms, enquiry forms,
surveys and feedback
forms;
• Forms App (In Google
Drive);
• Forms you create on your
PC can be viewed and
completed in the browser of
your phone;
• Save to Google Drive.

41. Paperless working?

42. Tracking things to do
Todoist
• Capture every action - personal, shopping, business,
ideas, questions to ask colleagues;
• Add that very next action to a list….
@next actions (or things to do)
@Project list (lots of things in projects)
@Waiting for..
@Personal list
@Shopping list
• Set reminders

43. Tracking things to do
Wonderlist
• Easily share lists and
collaborate with family,
friends and colleagues;
• Share the work and
delegate to-dos;
• Organize your projects
for home, work and
everywhere in between
with Folders.

44. Conference Session?

45. Buddhify
• The mindfulness app for your
modern life;
• Practical, playful and beautifully-
designed, buddhify increases your
wellbeing by teaching you
mindfulness-based meditation on the
go.
• With over 11 hours of custom
meditations for 15 different parts of
your day including traveling, being
online, taking a work break and going
to sleep, buddhify gives you a simple
but effective way to bring more
mindfulness and calm to your busy
day.

46. What apps do you use?

48. What is Get up to Speed?
• Fully funded business and community support alongside
roll-out of superfast broadband;
• Helping to ensure we all make the most out of the
superfast broadband;
Delivered by Cosmic Peninsula Consortium

49. At Work
• Communicate effectively online; reducing need to travel;
• Extend market reach; better use of web and social media;
• Save costs; using Cloud technologies;
• Collaborate and manage projects remotely;
• Become more flexible; work on-the-go;
• Compete with urban, national and international
businesses.

50. At Home
• Everyone using the connection at the same time;
• Reduce social isolation - connect with family & friends
using video conferencing;
• Work from home more efficiently;
• Watch, listen and read: TV, music and ebooks;
• Better connected to services, health, social
care,government.
Increasing services delivered online and future planning of
health & care services

51. Any Questions?

52. Contact us
www.get-up-to-speed.co.uk
info@get-up-to-speed.co.uk