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Set-up iPad, iPhone (and iPod touch) and Android to UIC-Wireless & UIC-WiFi. iPad Please be aware that a new iPad will not be able to be configured to connect to UIC-Wireless while on campus the first time you use it. While on campus you need the UIC Mobile Configuration Profile installed. Therefore, you will need to follow the steps below while you are off-campus and connected to another wireless network, when you return to campus you can then connect to UIC Wireless using your NetID and ACCC common password. Download and install the UIC configuration profile On your iPad open Safari and download the UIC configuration profile link from: http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/iphone/UIC.mobileconfig You will then be prompted to install the configuration profile:
iPhone & iPod Touch iPod touch needs an existing network connection to download and install the UIC-Wireless profile. You do not have to be connected to UIC-Wireless to download and install the profile. Please use another wireless connection (at home, coffee shop). For step by step instructions please visit: Android You can now connect to UIC-WiFi with your Android phone, for step by step instructions please visit the link below. Also note that these instructions are for the UIC-WiFi campus network, not UIC-Wireless. UIC-WiFi is a newer campus-wide wireless network that the ACCC is working on. UIC-WiFi will eventually replace UIC-Wireless. More UIC Wireless Information For more information please visit the ACCC Wireless support pages or the ACCC Wireless iPhone support pages (iPhone and iPad set-up is very similar) and Android. Test driving an iPad A handful of iPads (loaded with UIC Wireless and a large number of iPad apps) are now available for people to try them out at the ITL/SML labs on the east and west campus.
The Apple iPad is an outstanding device for reading and consuming content :: Web browsing, reading email, PDFs and other office documents, eLectronic books and Apple-supported multimedia. The lightweight 9.7" color touch-screen tablet has a full-feature Web browser, built-in Wi-Fi, (3G soon) and can run a growing library of native iPad apps that gives the iPad all kinds of additional functionality and makes it even more useful and fun. Native iPad apps, like NPR, USA Today, BBC News, Bloomberg, Zinio, Epicurious, Evernote, Pages, Keynote, Bento and Blackboard Mobile Learn provide a much easier and less cluttered mobile experience customized to fit the iPad's screen size and multiple-touch interface. On the other hand, the iPad is not very well-suited for note taking, and cannot play Flash content -- there is a lot of valuable educational content today that uses Flash, including Flash movies, screencasts, tutorials, SlideShare presentations, Flash learning objects, animations, Flash Websites and Prezi presentations. While it is unlikely that students will replace their notebook computers with iPads, students will find increasing value to have iPads to surf the Web, read class materials, access their Blackboard sites, blogs, wikis, lecture captures, and so forth. Apple still needs to beef up its iBooks Store with college textbooks; when it does, we'll be pressed to find students not having enough justification to purchase an excellent reading device that can also do a myriad of things for school work and fun. Selected iPad Resources: Apple iPad Website |
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