Getting Started with Your iPad

This technology skills lesson introduces the iPad’s buttons and switches and provides a basic overview of getting started with an Apple iPad.

The iPad is a simple and straightforward tablet, but there are ins and outs the average iPad user may not know. Learn how to navigate throughout an iPad!

Ready to activate and register your new iPad? What happens if you lose it? Learn how to set up your new iPad and activate useful tools such as “Find My iPad.”

Learn about the most important app on your iPad: the Settings app. The Settings app is essential for logging onto wireless networks and updating other apps!

Customize your new iPad! In this lesson, Michelle from Nets@Life shows how to personalize the iPad’s appearance and enable or disable restrictions.

What’s an iPad without WiFi access? Learn how to connect your iPad to free or protected wireless internet, and discover a few troubleshooting tips.

There are many things that can cause problems with your iPad's WiFi. This lesson explains 16 steps you can use to troubleshoot your WiFi connection.

Play music wirelessly, talk on the phone while it’s nowhere near you—Bluetooth helps you do a lot. Learn how to use it with your iPad in this lesson!

An unprotected iPad is vulnerable. This lesson shows you how to set up a simple and more complex passcode to protect your files and accounts.

Keep control of your privacy by monitoring what actions your iPad can and cannot perform so you have a clearer understanding of what to turn on and off.

You don't need to keep the default wallpaper that comes on your iPad. Learn how to change it to be a still image, dynamic, or parallax wallpaper.

In this lesson on iPad multitasking, learn how to switch between apps without shutting them down and use assistive touch to create custom multitasking gestures.

Take advantage of the iPad's new Control Center to quickly change settings and access frequently used features—it’s an incredibly quick way to manage your iPad.

This lesson shows you how to do an automatic and manual backup using iCloud or iTunes, including how to manage storage and data usage on your iPad.

This detailed lesson from Nets@Life shows you how to set up iCloud on your iPad. Learn about different syncing options and explore the iCloud control panel.

An iPad is great for checking email on the go. This lesson explains how to add an email account using the automatic settings or adding an account manually.

Now that email is set up on your iPad, it's time to learn about the different settings you can change to tweak your email as it is displayed in your inbox.

This lesson explores iTunes, including how to download and install it, its preferences settings, a tour of the iTunes interface, and the syncing process.

iTunes is an important element of the iPad experience. Learn how to use iTunes to activate and backup an iPad, as well as manage your media library.

This lesson demonstrates how to manage and organize your music library in iTunes, create smart playlists, and rip music in order to digitize it.

This lesson shows how to sync music to your iPad using iTunes, organize music on the iPad, tweak settings, create playlists, and a whole lot more.

This lesson shows you how easy it is to transfer and sync movies to and from the iPad, demonstrated with the iTunes Movie library found on your computer.

This iPad lesson explains how easy it is to transfer batches of images to and from your computer using iTunes and put them on your iPad for viewing and sharing.

This lesson introduces the iBooks store, the Amazon Kindle store, and the Google Play store: ways you can purchase and download eBooks for your iPad.

This lesson introduces the App Store. Learn how to search for, purchase, download, delete, and organize your apps, and even find apps through iTunes.