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Using the iTunes U app on your iPhone My purpose for this tutorial is helping you
use the iTunes U app on your iPhone/iPad. So here is the home screen of my iPhone and
I took the iTunes app off. To be able to use it, you have to use iPhone app. You cannot
download from iTunes itself from the iTunes app but from the App Store.
Once you click on the App Store, you will go to a page that looks like this. You can
get this application in a couple of ways. Click on Categories; notice that the categories
include education. If you click education, you can see lots of kids stuff and if you
click on free, you can find the iTunes University app very quickly. Once you click, it will
appear and click install. What will happen is, the screen will disappear and it will
appear in a new page of where the application is and it will show you how fast the thing
is downloading and once it�s done, you can access the app from here and because I will
be using this app really fast, I�ll move it closer and I�ll move it here.
Click on the app and what it displays is the Bookshelf. And in order to get the content
in your �library� you have to go to the catalog to subscribe to the courses. If you
click Catalog, this is what it displays. It happens that one of them is mine. I will show
you how to subscribe. First thing to do is go through the Top 10; for example, there
are not many philosophy classes, so scroll down and my philosophy class is number one.
So select the class and subscribe. It�s free, just click on it and you will be asked
to get the course. And what will happen is that the visual representation of the class
appears on the bookshelf called the library. It will be here where you will get the access.
So again, from the main page, instead of clicking top 10, click on browse. It will load and
it will load a pull down list with universities and it will appear- scroll down to the University
of New Orleans and it will happen to see all the classes offered. Scroll down until you
see �See All� for a list of all the iTunes courses UNO has. Keep scrolling down until
you see the course that you want. For example, if you decide to subscribe to
my Ethics course, click subscribe, and if you want to get the course, click on subscribe
and it will appear on your bookshelf, what iTunes calls your Library.
First get the app, subscribe the courses and then start completing the content. Open the
Ethics class and what will appear is this info from the info page. This is the overview
of the info page and the content is broken up into Info, Posts, Notes and Materials.
From the Info , the first thing you click is the Overview which is the course information.
The button for Instructor is to email your instructor. Outline is what corresponds to
the content that the instructor wants you to complete in the syllabus.
What you will use again and again is the Posts. This is where you go to access the content.
Instructors use this to post instructions to complete the lectures, access to the lecture
notes, the philosophy department�s podcasts synced with slides of text. On the iTunes
U app you cannot see the slides change but you can if you use it on your Mac or PC using
iTunes and Quicktime. You can still follow along by downloading the slides and scrolling
through them. The assignments will be readings, links to websites and will be available through
the Posts. If you get more text than will display, it will be abbreviated, too, but
you still have access to the syllabus and required textbooks. So I have in the standard
posts in the assignment to complete lecture two, read, post your repost in Moodle. I want to
show you how to download it. Click on the box and it will expand. You will
see that you have an Info button which will tell you when it was uploaded. Click the arrow
to download and first expand, and then expand. So in this case, you get to see the progress
of the download and the other one is almost done and it doesn�t take long. Podcasts
are smaller than video files. In this both have downloaded and the lecture notes are
a PDF of the slides found in the lecture. Once you click on the sound to begin the lecture,
you have the image of the course and you have the controls. It can begin at the beginning
and you can play at a faster or slower rate. 55% downloaded the content and we got
a lot of feedback and people listen to these lectures on the treadmill or driving.
In any event you can control the lecture from here. To click the slides, click the arrow
and if you�ve already downloaded the slides, go back, open the slides from here and it
will appear and will scroll down the slide as the lecture is completing. Once you are
done, what you can do is to check off the things that are completed and you have a checklist
of what you have to do. Access content through Posts, but there are a couple of other things.
The Notes feature will let you access other notes. It is possible to keep it recorded
once you access the course content. In Materials, there will
be all the materials that have been updated through the Posts and it will be organized depending
on the category. Links to videos, PDFs, can be accessed with whatever media it is.
All of this is available in your computer and the content in class. Here is my updated
library with all philosophy classes and I�ll tell you again that if you have any issues,
or problems with iTunes U, you can contact me at: philosophy@uno.edu or iTunes@uno.edu
and I have created other tutorials for an iPad and one more tutorial on iTunes on a
Mac or PC.