Creating History:

Using iTunes U to
create courses and
content

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Using iTunes U

Open the iTunes U app on your iPad or go to the address

iTunesu.itunes.apple.com to access the iTunes U course manager

Creating a course

Click/Tap the plus sign on the upper left hand corner and fill out the details. Without the details
you will not be allowed to create your own course.

Fill out the course

details

Course Details

Course Name

Department/Institution

Description of your
course

Image course

Course duration

Licensing

etc…

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Important features/details

Info

Posts
Materials

The main page and Admin

first part of the course Tab where you All the materials
students will see. The can your posts, you’ve uploaded
assignments, Approve
tabs are Overview, on iTunes U: students, view
Instructor, and Outline.
discussions.
apps, requests to
documents, join the
Outline - course You can see also videos, articles,
see posts by course, edit
information you placed iBooks. course
when you first made topic.
settings,
your course.
images,
Instructor - Instructor’s instructors
profile
Notes

Outline - outline your
course and will be the
main topics of your
course.
and licensing
Notes that your students will write
during the duration of the course.

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Creating Posts

Posts by topic

Based on main topics

written on the Outline in
your Info tab

• When creating posts, click the + sign and

select the topic you want your post in.

• A title is required for each post

• A message or topic overview

• Assignments that will be in your topic.

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 Creating assignments

Write your instructions for your

assignments, select whether it
will be graded or not and if
students will hand-in a product
or not.

You can add different materials

on to your homework.

Materials can be articles from

the web, apps from the App
store, your own iBook.

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Bringing in students

In the Admin tab you will see the following:

• Enrollment

• Share your enrollment code with your

students or post the link in your classroom

• New requests

• You can choose to auto approve student

requests or manually approve student
enrollment

• Enrolled students
• Check out the status of your students and
some of their work

To publish a course

• Can only be done on the web

version
(itunesu.itunes.apple.com)

• Create a copy of your course

as a back up

• Click the settings wheel

• Click “add to public catalog”

• You will receive an email that a

request has been sent, your
iTunes U Manager will either
approve or deny your course
for publication on to your
institution’s iTunes U page.

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Important Reminders

Affiliated accounts versus unaffiliated accounts

• Affiliated accounts are instructors who are connected to an institution.

• Affiliated accounts have unlimited storage space and can create unlimited number of courses

• Courses will appear on your institution’s iTunes U page

• Unaffiliated accounts are limited to 12 courses and a cap on materials space

Courses must have all important information before it can be published, courses must have the
following:

• A course image (600x600px)

• Course name, description, duration, institution, license.

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 About the Presenter

Alfonso Mangubat is currently the Diploma Programme Coordinator of Keys School

Manila. He has been teaching for over 7 years and his passion has always been in the
study of history.

Alfonso is also an Apple Distinguished Educator, class of 2017. As an ADE he has

authored the following iBooks: The Inquiry Cycle: A Guidebook and The Spanish
Colonization of the Philippines. Alfonso has also designed iTunes U courses to support
the iBooks he authored.

Social media

Twitter: @teacherforest

Linkedin: Alfonso Juan S. Mangubat

Portfolio: teacheralfonso.weebly.com

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