Suggested iPad Apps
Once you have your iPad, you will able to download apps from the iTunes store.
The first app you should download is Blackboard Mobile Learn, which will give you access to all of your vUWS sites.
Below are some other UWS-tested apps that you can choose to download. These may assist you with your studies. Please also make sure you complete all of the essential steps for starting at UWS before session begins.
Please note: Downloading these apps is not compulsory. These are suggestions that may assist you in your studies.
The first app you should download is Blackboard Mobile Learn, which will give you access to all of your vUWS sites.
Below are some other UWS-tested apps that you can choose to download. These may assist you with your studies. Please also make sure you complete all of the essential steps for starting at UWS before session begins.
Please note: Downloading these apps is not compulsory. These are suggestions that may assist you in your studies.
Taking notes and annotating documents
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iAnnotate PDF | Read, annotate and highlight PDF documents, add drawings and handwritten notes, manage files and share via email. | $10.49 |
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Evernote | Manage and index notes and sync them with your desktop. | FREE |
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SoundNote | Sound Note is a way to take notes in meetings, lectures, and interviews. It tracks what you type and draw while recording audio. Also, it enables you to share text, drawings and audio notes via email. | $5.49 |
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Pages | Edit and format documents. Add images and create footnotes and endnotes. | $10.49 |
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Numbers | Read, create and share spreadsheets. | $10.49 |
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Quick Office | Quickoffice enables you to create, view, and edit all versions (‘97 – ‘10) of Microsoft Word, Excel®, and PowerPoint® files on your mobile device. | FREE *Exclusively for Google Apps for Business subscribers |
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Penultimate | Penultimate is an easy to use handwriting app. Penultimate is part the Evernote family of apps. | FREE |
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Skitch | Skitch enables you to annotate and mark up documents usinf shapes, arrows and quick sketches. Skitch is part the Evernote family of apps. | FREE |
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Bamboo Paper | Bamboo paper is a notebook app, and allows you to sketch or write on your iPad. | FREE |
Productivity
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Dropbox | Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. | FREE |
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Elements for Dropbox | Elements for Dropbox is a markdown notes and writing app. It keeps edits and versions under control. | $5.49 |
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Skydrive | SkyDrive is the place to store your files so you can access them from virtually any device. | FREE |
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CloudOn | CloudOn is a file viewer app that brings Microsoft Office® to your iPhone & iPad and links it to your Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and SkyDrive accounts. | FREE |
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Toodledo | Tooldedo is a simple to-do app, allowing you to organise your to-do list and notes. | $2.99 |
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E-Reminder | E-Reminder allows you to manage your tasks or todo(s). | FREE |
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Remember the Milk | Remember the Milk is a is a to-do app. It allows you tokeep in sync with your tasks on multiple devices. | FREE |
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Wunderlist | Wunderlist manages and shares your daily to-do lists | FREE |
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Mindjet | Mindjet allows you to easily enter ideas, tasks, and meeting notes into intuitive visual maps that help you quickly organize concepts and prioritize action items. | FREE |
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Faster Scan HD | FasterScan HD lets you instantly scan multi-pages document and send out when there is no scanner nearby. | FREE |
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Docusign Ink | Sign documents and get signatures quickly and easily from your iPad or iPhone. | FREE |
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QR Reader | QR Reader is a QR code scanner, deciphering codes containing contacts, texts, addresses, notes, links, messages, emails, etc. | FREE |
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Aurasma | Aurasma is an augmented reality app, bringing tagged images, objects and even physical locations to life with interactive digital content, such as video, animations and 3D scene. | FREE |
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Mendeley - Reference Manager (Lite) | Mendeley is academic software that indexes and organizes all of your PDF documents and research papers into your own personal digital library. It’s also a Reference manager. | FREE *Lite version only |
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Find my iPhone | Allows you locate your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac on a map when you have misplaced them. | FREE |
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Tripview for Sydney | Public transport app that Sydney Train/Bus/Ferry timetable data on your phone. | $2.99 (Lite version available for free) |
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Free Wi-Fi Finder | Free Wi-Fi Finder is an app that instantly find FREE Wi-Fi Internet hotspots wherever you are in the world online or offline. | FREE |
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Swift Player | Player to speed up video and audio playback directly from your favorite websites like YouTube, applications like DropBox, iTunes Library, etc. | $5.49 |
Presentations
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Keynote | Keynote is a presentation app - complete with animated charts and transitions — as simple as touching and tapping. | $10.49 |
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BrainShark | BrainShark is a presentation app that allows you to easily navigate through presentations, view presentation attributes and download related attachments/documents. | FREE |
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Prezi | Create, edit, present, and share your prezis anywhere with simple, intuitive multi touch gestures. | FREE |
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Pointer | Show your presentation on a secondary screen such as a projector, TV or monitor and interact with it by pointing and drawing. | FREE |
Mind mapping and brainstorming
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Popplet | Popplet allows you to capture your ideas, sort them visually, and collaborate with others in realtime. | $5.49 |
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iThoughtsHD | Mind-mapping application that integrates with Dropbox. | $10.49 |
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Bamboo Paper | Bamboo paper is a notebook app, and allows you to sketch or write on your iPad. | FREE |
Digital storytelling
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Explain Everything | Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export. | $2.99 |
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Bamboo Paper | Bamboo paper is a notebook app, and allows you to sketch or write on your iPad. | FREE |
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iMovie | iMovie is a moviemaking app that allows you to create HD movies and share your finished projects to the world. | $5.49 |
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Skitch | Skitch enables you to annotate and mark up documents usinf shapes, arrows and quick sketches. Skitch is part the Evernote family of apps. | FREE |
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The Best 17 iPad Digital Storytelling Apps for Teachers (opens in a new window)
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Reading documents
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Good Reader | GoodReader® is the super-robust highly-rated PDF reader with advanced reading and annotating capabilities. | $5.49 |
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iBooks | iBooks is an app that allows you to view PDF files and books downloaded from the iBookstore. | FREE |
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iTunesU | The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content. | FREE |
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Kindle | The Kindle app gives users the ability to read Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs | FREE |
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Inkling | Inkling is a platform for interactive books. | FREE |
Replacing native iPad camera
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King Camera | King Camera is an all-in-one photo app that allows you to take and edit your photos. Sharing to social media is available. | FREE |
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Top Camera – HDR | Top Camera HDR allows you to create photographs using various features, including, HDR mode, slow shutter and video recording. | FREE |
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ProCamera | ProCamera allows you to take and edit your photos. Then, share your favourite social media. | $4.49 |
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QuickPix | QuickPix allows you to take photos while shooting video. | $1.99 |
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Fastest Camera Pro | Fastest Camera Pro allows you to take photos with fast camera shooting times. | $1.99 |
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GorillaCam | GorillaCam allows you to create stop motion videos, time lapses, self-timer shots or rapid-fire photo series. | FREE |
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Burst Mode | Burst Mode allows you to take photos with fast camera shooting times and analyse the image frame by frame. | $1.99 |
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Movie Mount | Movie Mount gives you full manual control over video and photo capture with the iPad2&3. | FREE |
If you need support using your iPad, please see the UWS iPad guide you received with your iPad or refer to Apple’s online iPad User Guide (opens in a new window), the Apple iPad support webpages (opens in a new window) or the following IT Services support pages:
- How do I connect an iPad to AirUWS?
- What do I do if I’m having trouble connecting to AirUWS
- Where can I connect to wireless?
Disclaimer: Downloading these apps is not compulsory. These are suggestions that may assist you in your studies.
