Intro to iTunes U
iTunes U provides everything an instructor needs to bring a classroom together. iTunes U is an iPad and web app for managed, affiliated, and unaffiliated instructors who want to create, edit, design, distribute, and teach all-digital courses. Using iTunes U you can build lessons with apps and your own materials, collect and grade assignments from students, start class discussions or talk with students to answer questions and provide feedback.
iTunes U also allows anyone with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to learn from a large catalog of free educational content. Millions of people across the globe visit iTunes U every day. iTunes U offers free lectures, videos, books, and other resources on thousands of subjects from Algebra to Zoology. This extraordinary content comes from leading schools, universities, museums, and cultural institutions.
Create courses using your own teaching materials
As an instructor you can create private and public in-session and self-paced courses and feature a broad range of audio, video, books, and other educational materials along with your course syllabus, handouts, and quizzes. You can upload materials from your computer or pull content and links from the Internet, the App Store, or the iTunes Store. Learn more.
Your students will be excited about your courses when they get their hands on iTunes U (available as a free download from the App Store), enroll in private courses or subscribe to public courses in the iTunes U catalog, and view courses in the library. Students can browse by title, author, or genre and when they find a course they want they can tap to see more information and review the course description and outline. Students can access your course and materials (for example, lectures, books, documents, apps, web links) through iTunes U on their iOS devices 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Students can enroll or subscribe to courses, download materials, play video or audio lectures, read books, view presentations, see a checklist of your assignments, and hand in homework for you to grade all in one place.
Plan lessons, grade assignments, and stay connected
Create course assignments, then post the assignment details (for example, instructions, explanations, summaries, and context around a specific topic) for your students. Learn more.
If you are teaching a private course, you can turn on grading and homework hand-in for assignments, then use the grade book to view how students in your private courses are progressing. You can also use the discussions feature to start discussions with your students and reply to questions in your private course.
View all your courses at a glance and view students enrolled in your courses
See at a glance all the courses you own or contribute to in iTunes U. The dashboard is your iTunes U home page, appearing when you sign in to iTunes U and when you click 
. Use the dashboard to get started with iTunes U by creating courses, viewing course details, accessing your Inbox, updating your instructor profile information, and using your My Materials Library to upload reference materials. Learn more.
Use the roster to manage student enrollment in your private courses. Learn more.
Share your course with students, colleagues, and users around the world
When you are ready to share your course, choose Enroll Code from the Settings pop-up menu in the dashboard or use the roster to distribute your course to anyone who is interested in the topic, whether in your class or anywhere else in the world. For instructors affiliated with educational institutions, you can also send the course link to your iTunes U Public Site Manager administrator, who can publish the course to your institution’s iTunes U site and make your course available publicly in the iTunes U catalog. Learn more.