The desktop version of Google Docs seems to work fine on the iPad now, but the new Google Drive app is a much more efficient and effective way to edit your Google Docs from an iPad. The problem with the mobile version is that you only have plain text editing, which means that you can’t add bullets, bold, or other formatting.Mobile version of Google Docs on the iPadįor the longest time, you could only get the mobile version of Google Docs to work on the iPad. (I guess it’s one step up from mobile Safari on your iPad in that it saves your Google Docs account information so you don’t have to keep on entering your password.) The Google iPad app does have “docs” built-in to its applications, but it’s essentially just a web browser loading the mobile or desktop version of Google Docs.Good docs requires you to upload and download documents from your Google Docs account which adds an extra step.
For example, Office2 HD took forever to load my Google Docs directory (if you could load it at all.).There are a few iPad apps that can connect with your Google Docs account, but I couldn’t find one that I liked. Other iPad apps to access Google Docsīefore September 2012, editing Google Docs on the iPad was a problem. This is a big deal, especially for schools that already use Google Apps for Education and provide their students with free Google Docs accounts. This month (September 2012), Google updated its free Google Drive app, so you can now create and edit Google documents using rich text formatting. I don’t want to start with one app, and then a few months later find out that there’s a better app, and discover it’s hard to get my notes out of this app. How do I get my content off the iPad? There are so many notetaking apps on the iPad, I don’t know which one to choose.It’s hard to create content on the iPad.There are two big problems that I hear about using an iPad in the classroom (or anywhere else for that matter.) I’m talking about problems with using the iPad as a notetaking tool, as opposed to problems with deploying and managing a class set of iPads.
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