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Q: How can I increase accountability - i.e. make sure students stay on the app they are supposed to use? A: 1. Establish a routine where you periodically ask a student "Please hand me your iPad." (They must comply immediately or lose their turn.) Do the next steps without showing the students what you are doing. 2. Double-click the home button. The recently used apps appear along the bottom row, most recent at left. 3. If you see Safari or YouTube there, you can tap the icon to see what they have been looking at (and you can check the History). To have a more exact idea of all their activity during a session, do this: Before you hand out the iPads, double-click the home button, press and hold one of the bottom-row icons to make them 'wiggle' and hit the red delete button on all the apps to clear this bottom row area. Then when you check later, all the apps that show in this area will be ones that the student has used in that session. You probably want to establish the policy that off-task iPad use means a lost turn. Peter