Required Apps
Required Purchase Apps
- Notability
- Cost: $9.99
- Allows students to annotate pdfs
- Photon for Kids
- Cost: $4.99
- Allows textbooks and internet sites to display videos that require Flash
Required Free Apps
- Destiny Quest
- Provides access to our library's catalog
- Student Clicker-Socrative
- Student response system (clickers)
- Skyward Mobile Access
- Official Skyward app to access information on iOS platform.
- Schoology
- Class and homework management
- AirServer Connect
- Allows you to scan the QR Code for a faculty member's AirServer.
Bookshelf Apps (Free apps for accessing textbooks)
- iBooks
- Bookshelf app for eBooks from iTunes
- Kindle
- Bookshelf app for eBooks from Amazon
- Pearson eText
- Bookshelf app for eBooks from Pearson
- Pearson eText for Schools
- Second required Pearson app for ebooks.
- Bookshelf by VitalSource
- Bookshelf app for some eBooks purchased from the MBS website.
Required Student Obtained Apps
- Word Processing - Gonzaga Prep requires students to have one word processing app. Gonzaga Prep is a Google Apps for Education school and provides access to Google Applications for free. Google applications on the Apple App store are:
- Google Drive
- Google's cloud storage for files
- Google Drive
- Google Docs
- Google's word processing software
- Google Sheets
- Google's spreadsheet software
- Google Slides
- Google's slideshow software
- Some options given from Apple are:
- Calculator - Please note that a calculator app does not replace graphing calculators required for some Mathmatics courses. Students must be proficient in the use of a graphing calculator as these are the only devices allowed on SAT, ACT and AP Exams. Apps are not permitted in most testing situations. Example of a calculator graphing app:
- Quick Graph
- free graphing calculator