Bishop Moore Catholic is a 1:1 iPad school. The iPad is used as a premier blended education tool. As an educational resource, students have direct communication between teacher and student using Google Apps For Education, Schoology, and Apple Classroom. Engaging in educational apps, reading programs, and labs the student-focused curriculum optimizes students' education to achieve the maximum possible growth. Access to student email accounts, Google Docs/Drive, course materials and other resources such as Turnitin, Gale Cengage, Jstor, Naviance, Schoology, and other applications is readily available.
Requirements
The iPad seamlessly connects to most of the current online technologies available. Access to student email accounts, Google Docs/Drive, course materials and other resources such as Turnitin, Gale Cengage, Jstor, Naviance, Schoology, and other applications is readily available.
Who owns the iPads? At BMC each student owns their own iPad.
Each student is required to have an iPad each day - fully charged - for class.
If you are purchasing a new iPad for your student:
- We recommend purchasing an iPad with a minimum of 64GB of space that can run iOS16.
- If your current iPad meets those two recommendations, it is not necessary to purchase a new iPad.
- It is not necessary to purchase an iPad Pro, the majority of students use an iPad or iPad Air.
- Cellular capability for an iPad is not needed on campus and students are expected to disable this capability while on campus.
- Apple Pencils are helpful, but not required.
- Some students prefer to have an external keyboard, also.
- Care & Insurance: We strongly recommend that you purchase a screen protector and sturdy case to protect your student’s iPad from accidental damage. We recommend you purchase AppleCare+. Visit Apple.com for more details.
- Students may not use other devices in place of the iPad. The primary reason is that many of the new interactive textbooks only work on the Apple iPad and are only available through the Apple iBooks store on the iPad device. The same is true for many of the required apps.
Due to Apple delivery times, we strongly recommend ordering your iPad at least two months before the start of school. iPads will be needed for Summer School.
You can purchase the iPad from any Apple store, the online Apple store, or another authorized Apple retailer.
Required Apps
The following is a list of mandatory apps that BMC students need downloaded to their iPad:
- Notability
- Google Drive
- Google Chrome
- Google Sheets
- Google Docs
- Pages
- Numbers
- Keynote
- Red Shelf
*Teachers may require additional apps