Description
iTunes U provides everything an instructor needs to bring the classroom together on iPad — build lessons with apps and your own materials, collect and grade assignments from students, start class discussions, or talk with students one to one to answer questions and provide feedback.
iTunes U also allows anyone with an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to learn from the world’s largest collection of free education content — including public courses and collections from leading schools, universities, museums and cultural institutions.
For Instructors:
• Plan lessons, grade assignments and stay connected — all from your iPad
• Add your own teaching materials — including worksheets, web links, photos and videos from a variety of document providers
• Engage every learner using apps, books, videos, podcasts and more from iTunes, the App Store and iBooks
• Add instructions or comments to PDFs and photos with built-in annotation tools
• See when students have viewed or completed assignments and remind them of assignment deadlines
• Grade student work and track student progress in the grade book
• Use the single-student view for individual attention at parent-teacher consultations
• Answer questions or provide video feedback in 1:1 chats or start class debates using group discussions
• Keep students prepared and in the loop with notifications
• Institutions using Apple School Manager and Managed Apple IDs can import registers to streamline course creation
• Teachers affiliated with qualified institutions can publish courses to the iTunes U catalogue to make them available to anyone for free
For Students:
• View assignments and updates in one place, and tick off assignments you’ve completed
• Submit your work from any Apple creativity app, many third-party apps, or as annotated PDFs and photos for private courses
• Open audio or video files directly in other apps
• Ask instructors questions or have them review your work with one-to-one messages
• Start or join group discussions with your class
• View your grades and instructor feedback on all past assignments
Browse the world’s largest catalogue of free education content:
• Choose from over a million free lectures, videos, books and other resources on thousands of subjects from leading educational and cultural institutions around the world
• Share your favourite courses with friends using Twitter, Facebook, Mail and Messages
• iTunes U includes materials from Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, McGill University, La Trobe University, University of Tokyo, Museo Nacional del Prado, Smithsonian Libraries, US National Theatre, Library of Congress and many more
Requirements:
• Participating in courses requires iPhone, iPad or iPod touch
• Built-in PDF or photo annotation requires iPad (4th generation) or later, or iPad mini 2 or later
• iTunes 12 or later is required to sync with a computer
• Publishing public courses to iTunes U requires teachers to be affiliated with a qualified institution
• 3D Touch requires iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus or later
What's New in Version 3.5
• Mark up photos with instructions or comments using built-in annotation tools
• Quickly send video messages and feedback in 1:1 chats between teachers and students
• Open audio or video files directly in other apps
- Free
- Category: Education
- Updated: 28 March 2017
- Version: 3.5
- Size: 55.6 MB
- Languages: English, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Seller: Apple Inc.
- © 2016 Apple Inc.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 9.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.