Your students will experience the courses you build using the free iTunes U app for iPad. It’s a powerful app that lets students have all the materials for the course right there at their fingertips.
Students can view all the assignments for your course in a list and check off each task as it’s completed.
When a student takes notes while watching a video, iTunes U remembers the location of the note.
iTunes U puts all the notes together in one place, whether the notes are about a book, video or lecture.
Students can have access to all the materials for a course right there on their iPad.
From the iTunes U app, students can play video or audio lectures, and take notes that are synchronised with the lecture. They can read books and view presentations. See a list of all the assignments for the course and check them off as they’re completed. And when you send a message or create a new assignment, students receive a push notification with the new information.1 Learn more about the iTunes U app for students
The iTunes U app integrates with iBooks and other apps to make it easy for students to keep up with your course. For example, books for the course are available straight from the app. Students simply tap them to start reading the assigned chapter. Notes taken in iBooks are consolidated for easy reviewing in the iTunes U app. If an assignment includes watching part of a video, one tap can go straight to a specific segment. And iTunes U keeps documents, notes, highlights and bookmarks up to date across multiple devices.iTunes U Course Manager — an easy-to-use, browser-based tool from Apple — lets you create a complete course using all of your digital materials.
Your iTunes U courses can include all the items you would use in a traditional course: a syllabus, handouts, quizzes and so on. And they can include your own video and audio lectures as well as interactive elements such as content and links from the Internet, iBookstore, App Store and iTunes Store. You can also add materials from among the 500,000-plus free public resources in the iTunes U catalogue, including audio and video content from museums, universities, cultural institutions and more.
Read iTunes U course guidelines (PDF)
The onscreen instructions in iTunes U Course Manager guide you through the process of adding materials to your courses. Everything you upload is hosted by Apple and available to anyone taking the course. And you can easily duplicate your course, make modifications and use it for a new class.
Audio and videoPresentationsDocumentsPDFsePub booksiOS appsWeb linksTo get your course to your students, simply invite them to enrol in it with a code or URL that allows them to request enrolment. This private course distribution is available to all teachers who sign up for iTunes U — regardless of whether your school or institution is enrolled in the program.2
If you teach at an institution with a public iTunes U site, your courses can join the world’s largest online catalogue of free education content on iTunes U. Stanford, Yale, Oxford, UC Berkeley, MoMA and the New York Public Library are among the hundreds of institutions that are sharing courses, lectures, videos, books and other resources with students and lifelong learners all over the world.
No matter what subject you teach or where you teach it, you can create a course and distribute it privately to your own students — for free.2Sign up K–12 schools, universities and colleges in 26 countries can enrol in iTunes U to distribute courses and collections of educational content that anyone can access. Sign up for iTunes U
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