What is iTunes U
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iTunes U offers more than 800,000 free lectures, videos, books, and other resources on thousands of subjects. The content comes from educational and cultural institutions.
Accessing iTunes U Course Manager
To access the iTunes U Course Manager:1.Go to www.itunesu.itunes.apple.com
2.Enter your Apple ID (For example johndoe@me.com) OR create an Apple ID
if you do not have one. (Create Apple ID) (An Apple ID is a user name use for everything you do with Apple products.)
How Can I use iTunes U?
- Academic content for a specific course or courses
- Recordings of lecture or presentation series, guest speakers, or special events Recruitment materials
- Promotional content for a college, department, research project, organization, or event
- Training or informational materials
- Artistic or dramatic performances
- Community outreach.
Benefits of using iTunes U
- iTunes supports audio, audio enhanced (audio with a slide show), video, PDF, and ePub content, including iBooks interactive textbooks.
- iTunes software is designed to allow content to be downloaded to a user's personal computer or mobile device.
- As an instructor you can feature a broad range of audio, video, books, and other educational materials along with your course syllabus, handouts, and quizzes and make the course and materials available quickly and easily to your students as an iTunes U course for the iTunes U app. You can upload materials from your computer or pull content and links from the Internet.
- Free and easy to use
Sign in to Course Manager and create a Course
You need to sign in to iTunes U Course Manager to create your instructor profile, and create, edit, and organize your courses.Sign in to Course Manager
You can create public and private courses.
By default, all courses created in Course Manager are private.
iTunes U Public Site Manager and the administrator will add the course to the institution’s iTunes U site.
View a video tutorial on how to create a course on iTunes U
iTunes U Course Manager is organized in three sections:
- Info
- Posts
- Materials
Share Course
- When you are ready to share your course, you can choose Enroll Code from the Settings pop-up menu in the dashboard to share a link to your course with students and other users.
- For private courses, share the course enroll code with your students. Students request access by entering the code in the iTunes U app on an iOS device (iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch). After you approve a request, students can access the course using an Apple ID.
- For private courses, when students access the link from an iOS device (iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch), they can tap the link to request access. After you approve a request, students can access the course using an Apple ID.
Download iTunes U
Download iTunes U for desktopDownload for iTunes iPhone/iPad
To download a course onto your mobile device, download the iTunes U app from the App Store, open app, click on "Catalog" on the upper right-hand corner, find a series you're interested in, and click "Subscribe". The content is then delivered directly to you, whether the course is a series of lectures, videos, PDFs, or an entire book.
After downloading the course content, you can process it however you wish. You can choose to learn at your own pace and decide whether to use your computer, iPad or iPhone.
Important Links
A Guide for Creating iTunes U CoursesApple iTunes Information
Apple iTunes U Course Manager info
iTunes U Course Guidelines
iTunes U Support
Technical Requirements
Collaborate using iTunes U
- Teachers can collaborate on course creation, management, and enrollment with up to five course contributors like department leads, teacher’s assistants, or district curriculum developers. You can also transfer your current course to another teacher, complete with the existing student enrollment. Or just offer inspiration by sharing a copy of your course - the outline, posts, assignments, and materials - to help others get started.
- The best courses include a rich variety of content that inspires you and engages your students -from Multi-Touch books, news articles, documents and handouts to dynamic apps, videos, and websites. It’s easy to quickly add materials right from the iTunes U app. Or you can organize everything on your Mac, and upload from the web-based tool.
Customize the Learning Experience
- Instructors can create and manage their course and students can experience it all from the iTunes U app on iPad.
- Assignments, materials, and study notes all work together in the iTunes U app to keep students prepared for class and engaged in learning.Students can see homework assignments with due dates for all their courses from the home screen.
- The iTunes U app lets students enroll in a course and download all of the materials they need when they are connected to Wi-Fi - which means learning and studying can happen anywhere, at anytime with just an iPad.
- Students can access your course and materials (for example, lectures, books, documents, apps, web links) through the iTunes U app on their iOS devices 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Students can enroll or subscribe to courses, download materials, play video or audio lectures, read books, view presentations, and see a checklist of all assignments in one place.
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