For the past two years, this has been the challenge with our 1:1 program: no way of uploading to ManageBac using the student device.
This meant that they had to figure out the loooong work-around of emailing it to themselves and then accessing a desktop or laptop from school/home and uploading it from there.

Before Christmas, I discovered 'Doc Uploads' an affordable (it was $2 but now I see it is $6!) app that allows you to upload files and upload through its own browser... A life changer for a 1:1 iPad school that uses Managebac!

More recently a Grade 8 student showed me a new way too. It is now possible - through ManageBac itself, to upload direct from Google Drive - from the Google Chrome Browser App only. This is an awesome upgrade which is VERY useful for our 1:1 iPad school that uses ManageBac AND Google Apps for Education.
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Good news all round!

A very brief overview of the steps taken since May: 

1. Survey teachers and students on the most used and most popular apps
2. Streamline number of apps used across the Secondary School
3. Create the ‘appflow’/workflow
4. Launch to teachers/students/parents/board etc… 

To access documents & examples referred to in this presentation, please click here

1. Students now only have 60 main apps in the 'appflow' - as opposed to up to 140 apps that were different for each grade level last year. These apps are clearly divided between 'consumption' apps (where they get the information from), 'preparation/creation' apps (what they do with the information), and 'presentation' apps (how they present their creations).
2. Teachers are finding that apps are being used across subjects so therefore the amount of teaching/front-loading by individual teachers is being reduced. The appflow makes it easier for teachers to scaffold and support the learning process.
3. iPads are being used more in more classrooms and the focus is on creation as opposed to consumption; students are creating stuff in order to demonstrate their understanding of concepts and skills using the iPads as a tool.
4. The 'appflow' concept is very easy to transfer. We are developing a similar 'workflow' for our laptop program in G11/12 for next year and other schools have started developing Android appflows...

Can you think of any other advantages/benefits that I have forgotten?

For the past year I have been wrestling with the current 1:1 iPad set up at my school and have devised the following 'appflow' infographic - this is Version 2 (see Version 1 here). I tried to take the apps that the students currently use (removing a LOAD of the content based ones) and create the workflow of  'absorption', preparation/creation and presentation along with a few 'must-have' tools. I have tried to organise the student workflow to help both students and teachers organisation and planning. 

Part of my inspiration came from an EdTech Conference in Jo'burg where Sabba Quidwai showed us the awesome work that Steve Bambury has done with the Chemistry of Combos.

I have used Thinglink to link each app icon to information about how it can be used - click here to see this Appflow on Thinglink.

Please PLEASE give me feedback - let me know what you think!