Tablet for remote teaching

Introduction

If you require a tablet with stylus for remote/hybrid teaching, DTU Compute can supply you with a Samsung S6 Lite with S Pen (Using "best in class" Wacom EMR digitizer). It is possible to join either Zoom or MS Teams meetings and share the tablet screen very easily (simultaneous joined with a laptop or other device also), to show live annotation of PDF's, or use our recommended program Nebo, to live sketch equations, fomulas, text, diagrams etc. Nebo is also able to recognize your handwriting and can convert this into text. What is possibly more interesting is that it can also do this with equations and formulas, translating these into LaTeX and show the output. The LaTeX code can also be exported if needed. Because S6 Lite is a Android tablet, many more apps are available in the store if needed.

Requesting the tablet

Please contact us at itsupport@compute.dtu.dk and request the tablet with pen. This offer is only for Compute staff involved in DTU courses or activities in which the use of such a tablet is beneficial for productivity. We cannot supply everybody with this device and will prioritize if needed.

Using the tablet

Power on the tablet and make hasty progress through all the initial configuration options. The most important thing would be to register the tablet to your Google Account. If you do not have a Google Account, or do not want to use your personal account, feel free to create a new one, either using your work email address or by using a new Gmail mail address. The configuration process will also ask for you to create a Samsung Account, this can be skipped and created later, but it is not needed.

After this initial configuration the tablet will present a desktop with a search bar and different icons. If you long press any of these icons/widgets, they can be removed from the desktop, and most/none of them are not required for this tablets purpose. Any icons removed will not delete the app, merely remove it from the desktop view.

Open the Google Play Store (Icon is an arrow/triangle) and search and install: 'Nebo', 'Zoom', 'Teams', 'Office' and any other apps you might require.

The S Pen

The S Pen does not need charging and can stick magnetically to the side of the tablet (Just below the volume and power button). It is important to "dock" the S pen here, as the magnets align with the tablet at this location. It is also important to have the tip of the pen pointing towards the volume and power buttons.