Review: Otus Learning Environment for iPad

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Otus positions itself as a learning environment for teachers and students who use iPads in school. There are two separate apps, a teacher app and a student app. The teacher app allows you to set up classes, log achievements or behavioural issues, take registers, set assignments and coming soon will be the ability to write blogs and have teacher led slide shows.

Class set up is easy enough. As a teacher, setting up a class generates a class code which you can give to your students who can automatically enroll. The email address of each student is then displayed once they are enrolled in the class. One of the useful parts of the app is the ‘bookshelf’ area where you can upload resources for your students. It must be said, this is slightly limiting in that you can upload links from the web, your camera roll or the inbuilt freehand drawing tool. It would be slightly more…

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