We are making an interactive workbook for iPad users and would like to make it possible to type in answers to the questions in the workbook. Is it possible to do this after it's been published? ie If we had a math textbook and they want to insert answers and then right then email the answers to their professor.
Is this Possible!!!???? If not, who has the connections to make this possible? 🙂
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There are others with far more knowledge about iBA than I, who may not have seen your question yet.
My intial thoughts are NO, you cannot do everything you want. There is a tick box Review widget, but not what you want.
You can ask questions and add an eMail link for students to reply with their answers. But they cannt add those answer into the book on their iPad to add to the existing content.
Interactivity is basically making choices as given by the books creator.
What you want sound feasable in an "app" - but unless you or your team are knowledgable with X Code and whatever other stuff the app makers use.... its a steeo learning curve.
There have been similar questions asked, so a search may bring up suggestions I did not see.
Are you suggesting something like a link that leads to a google form or something so they can fill it out and get their results?
The only way at this time ..using iBA...is for your students to reply by email. Web sites and forms need to be created and scripted...the most flexible way is a simple email. This allows the reply to be constructed by the student without limitations of form structures.
Given that you're targeting iPad users, why not try creating the book in Book Creator for iPad? When they download the book, they can open the book in Book Creator and edit it and send it back to you (or save it to a cloud service like Dropbox).
There's also third party widget sites (bookry for example) that have review widgets that may satisfy your need.
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