Sometimes newly installed programs will crash when launched. The best thing to do is to restart your device to free up memory. Try running the program again afterwards to see if that helps.
Yes, if you click on the "More" tab, there is a Tutorial section which covers all the aspects of the program. We hope to have a web-friendly version of the tutorial on this site soon.
At the moment Sides is only availble for the iOS platform. This means you can use Sides on your iPhone, iPad or iPad Touch. We are hard at work an a version of Sides for Android.
You'll want to create a new show file for each student, so they can record their own line readings without losing the
professional audio in the default show. To do this, go to the Settings tab and then tap "Current Show." This will take you to the "Load Show" screen where you'll tap "Load copy of original show." You can name this show anything you want in order to differentiate it from the default show. Tap "Done" and you'll see that a new show file has been created.