How to Sync Contacts and Calendars from Gmail to iPad

You have a new iPad and you want to compose an email, but your school contacts are not showing up when you start typing a name in the To: field?  

Let's sync those contacts!

1. Open the Settings application on your device.

2. Select Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

3. Select Add Account…

4. Select Microsoft Exchange

5. Enter your FULL gmail email address: email@spsdme.org

6. Enter your spsdme.org email password.  

7. Description is optional. I used "Google Sync"

8. Tap the Next button.  

9. Enter Server: m.google.com (see below)

10. Type your entire name@spsdme.org gmail address in the Username field. (see example right)

11. Tap the Next button.  

12. Turn all sliders to the ON position.

13. Tap the Save button.

Your email, contacts, and calendars will begin to sync right away.

Lock an iPad to a Single Page or Application Using Guided Access

Locking the iPad to a single application or web page can be useful if a student needs to stay focused on one thing without "wandering off" to search the web or check other things on the iPad.  Additionally, Guided Access will be used to lock iPads into the NWEA Testing on the iPad.

Turning on Guided Access must be done on each iPad.  As far as I know, it cannot be done remotely or for groups of iPads at one time.

Here is the Apple documentation for turning on and using Guided Access.

And below is a 3 minute video that I made demonstrating how to set and use Guided Access.