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Microsoft Teams - iPad app
I too am a secondary school Maths teacher!
We have used OneNote for a few years but have started using Teams since lockdown, so we are all on a steep learning curve!
We had the same problem and our IT Dept came up with something that worked.
On a PC (or I used Citrix to remote into my school PC desktop as I am iPad only at home) go to the online version of Teams and go to the Team you are trying to use.
Click on Files and after a minute or two a “Class Materials” folder should be created here (this is as feature of Class Teams and is where you can store files that you want to be read-only to students - like the Content Library in OneNote).
Then when you go to the iPad app everything should work properly.
It worked for me, as they say!
This should mean you don’t need to use PC and iPad together to create and run meetings.
I too am a big GoodNotes fan. a lovely app.
Hope this helps.
Stephen
1. The good news first - Microsoft Teams does work perfectly fine on iPad! I am using iPad Pro.
2. Only they haven’t let it be simple, commonsensical, intuitive usability as is norm in most of the apps.
3. If you want to use any app outside of ms teams then you just can’t open photos or YouTube or any other app. Moment you do that screen sharing stops and the message flashes.
4. Way out is the ‘MORE...’ section. As you would press it there is ‘Camera’ that takes you to the camera roll as well as white board. Then there is ‘Files’ that takes you to videos and Documents. There is more too.
5. So don’t go direct to other apps rather go via ‘More’