If you’re like me, you’ve found yourself using your iPad more and more as your primary computing device. With any product teachers use, the ability to easily produce documents is of the utmost importance. Apple has made the transition from full-blown laptop to tablet much easier with their mobile versions of word processing programs Pages, Keynote and Numbers.
With the introduction of iCloud, along with the prevalence of cloud storage options such as Dropbox, SugarSync, and Box.net, accessing your created files on your iPad is easy, but the ability to edit them and save them back to your cloud storage service has thus far been rendered impossible. If I create a document on my Windows computer at school and save it to my cloud service, I can access and edit it on my iPad, but can’t sync the updated file back to the cloud. At the same time, if I create a document on my iPad, there is no default way to save the document to my cloud service (unless I email the file to my computer, open it, and save it from there to my cloud service. No thanks.). What is a teacher to do?
Enter the cloud storage service Box.net. Box is currently the only company that allows what is known as webDAV syncing, which iPad allows as a way to save files. According to forum posts, both Dropbox and SugarSync have no current plans to implement this feature in the future either. Box.net offers 50 gb of storage, and a slew of collaboration tools for free.
So to recap, if you are looking for a way to both access and edit files created on other computers, as well as save documents created on your iPad to your cloud service, Box.net is the best (and only free) method to achieve this.
Interested in configuring this service for your iPad? Just follow the steps below.
Download the Box.net app from the App Store and sign up for an account
Create a default folder you will want to save your files (documents, home, etc.)
In Pages (repeat same process in Keynote & Numbers) click on the “Tools” icon and select “Share and Print”.
Select “Copy to WebDAV”
Type in your user name and password you created for your Box.net account. For “Server Address” type in http://www.box.net/dav/”folder name”
After typing in your WebDAV settings, you will be prompted to choose your normal file save format
Save your file to you new Box.net account!
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