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Transcript:

Let’s dive in and show you the most efficient workflow for interacting with our resources. Over here in canvas we have the menu that is toggled on and off by the hamburger. If you close the hamburger then you get so much more screen real estate. If we go into ‘Get into the groove’ we can see the instructions with links to GarageBand for iPad tutorials. Let’s click on ‘Start a project’ and take a look at the navigation controls. The home button takes us back to the beginning at any time throughout the tutorial. The rest is pretty self-explanatory but one of the things that gets confusing is there's a next button for the tutorial but there's also a next button on canvas. This can be a bit of a trap for young players as the next button on canvas takes you to the next item in the Canvas Module.

The next thing we worked out was that if the video auto played the student wouldn't be necessarily ready. Sometimes, a student might read the instructions and go “okay I get the hang of that, open GarageBand” and then be able to work it out by clicking through and reading. But at other times they might need someone to show them step by step and in this case they can press the play button down here and there'll be a nice green circle that says “here's how this works”, so when I tap play, I get the nice big green circle and I can see what to do. Then I can replay it or press next from there.

You know sometimes when you watch a gif or gif where it's just a continual loop? We found that the students got massively freaked out by that so we decided that we wouldn't loop it and then if the students wanted to watch again they could press the play button. Finally we found that students didn't know when the step had finished so we added this end of step screen as well as the idea of making sure the students know how many steps there are and what step they're up to. And the sugar at the end is just a little encouragement usually with an exclamation mark.