Apple Mac for Absolute Beginners

Apple Mac for Absolute Beginners, available at $64.99, has an average rating of 4.1, with 84 lectures, based on 218 reviews, and has 723 subscribers.

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Summary

Title: Apple Mac for Absolute Beginners

Price: $64.99

Average Rating: 4.1

Number of Lectures: 84

Number of Published Lectures: 84

Number of Curriculum Items: 84

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 84

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Students will be able to identify the functions of all the major aspects of the Mac computer, its hardware, included software, saving, storing and sorting files, troubleshooting – what to do if things go wrong and how it fits in with the rest of your e-devices

Who Should Attend

This class is ideal for anyone just starting out with a Mac computer. Doesnt matter how old you might be, or your level of computer experience, this is the class for you

Target Audiences

This class is ideal for anyone just starting out with a Mac computer. Doesnt matter how old you might be, or your level of computer experience, this is the class for you

This online class is designed for absolute beginners – people that have recently been given or have bought a Mac, desktop or laptop, it doesn’t really matter. People who need to understand basic operations, what the supplied software does, learn basic filing and data storage routines, how to back-up and save your stuff, and most importantly, what to do if things go wrong.
I have taught this class in a face-to-face format for over six years at Sydney University adult education centre – and have now converted more than 20 years of user experience into an easy-to-access and highly informative online resource.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction and Contents

Lecture 2: New Features in OS Catalina

Chapter 2: Buying Advice

Lecture 1: Buying a Mac: Processor speed

Lecture 2: Buying a Mac: Hard Drive Storage

Lecture 3: Buying a Mac: Adding RAM

Lecture 4: Buying a Mac: Plug and Play Connectivity

Lecture 5: Hard Drives Explained

Lecture 6: Expanding Mac Storage: External Drives

Lecture 7: About USB Ports

Lecture 8: Bluetooth Accessories

Lecture 9: Discounted Mac Computers?

Chapter 3: Basic Functions

Lecture 1: The Dock: What does it do?

Lecture 2: Searching for files with Spotlight

Lecture 3: Mac keyboard shortcuts

Lecture 4: The About This Mac panel

Lecture 5: Quick Look mode

Lecture 6: Finder: Red. Orange and Green buttons

Lecture 7: Mojave OS:Dark Mode

Lecture 8: Finder: View Modes

Lecture 9: Finder: Adding multiple Tabs to Finder

Lecture 10: Adding the Finder to the Dock

Lecture 11: Finder: Adding/Renaming sidebar shortcuts

Lecture 12: Copying and Pasting Files

Lecture 13: How to copy Files from an External Disk

Lecture 14: How to Format a New Disk

Lecture 15: How to Partition a new Drive

Chapter 4: Productivity Techniques

Lecture 1: Ejecting Disks

Lecture 2: Simple Copy and Paste Techniques

Lecture 3: Shuffling Applications

Lecture 4: Screen Shots and Screen Videos

Lecture 5: Productivity: Using the Arrange Tab

Lecture 6: Productivity: Renaming Files in Bulk

Lecture 7: File Management with Colour Tags

Lecture 8: File Management: Customising Tags

Chapter 5: Installing Software

Lecture 1: Updating your Operating System

Lecture 2: Where are your Apps?

Lecture 3: Finding, Downloading, Installing Software

Lecture 4: Deleting files with Trash

Chapter 6: Dock Software

Lecture 1: Searching for applications with Launchpad

Lecture 2: Organising Launchpad

Lecture 3: Adding multiple desktops: Mission Control

Lecture 4: Dock: Stacks

Lecture 5: Desktop: Stacks

Lecture 6: Adding Widgets with Dashboard (Legacy)

Lecture 7: iBooks

Lecture 8: Apple Maps

Lecture 9: Notifications

Chapter 7: Working with Mac System Preferences

Lecture 1: System Preferences: General – fine tuning appearences

Lecture 2: Changing the Desktop Image

Lecture 3: Dynamic Desktop Images

Lecture 4: Preferences: Text to Speech (pre OS Catalina)

Lecture 5: Preferences: Speech to Text (pre OS Catalina)

Lecture 6: Speech to Text (OS Catalina)

Lecture 7: Mouse: Customising how it works

Lecture 8: Trackpad: Customising how it works

Lecture 9: The APP Store

Lecture 10: Seamless backups using Time Machine

Lecture 11: Working with Bluetooth devices

Lecture 12: Working with Wireless features

Lecture 13: Boot Camp: Installing Windows on your Mac

Lecture 14: Parallels Software: Running Windows and the Mac OS simultanaeously

Chapter 8: Pre-Loaded Software

Lecture 1: Apple Mail – part 1

Lecture 2: Apple Mail – part 2

Lecture 3: Apple Mail – part 3

Lecture 4: Safari: Setting up the Home Page

Lecture 5: Safari: Saving Favourites and Top Sites

Lecture 6: Word processing: Apple Pages

Lecture 7: Presentations: Apple Keynote

Lecture 8: Apple Photos

Lecture 9: Photos: Making a digital picture book

Lecture 10: Apple iMovie (part 1)

Lecture 11: Apple iMovie (part 2)

Lecture 12: Apple iMovie (part 3)

Lecture 13: Apple iMovie (part 4)

Lecture 14: Apple iTunes (Legacy pre-Catalina)

Lecture 15: iTunes evolution on Mac OS Catalina

Lecture 16: Apple Numbers

Lecture 17: Apple GarageBand

Chapter 9: Troubleshooting Problems

Lecture 1: Emergency: How to Force Quit an application

Lecture 2: Disk Utility: Running a health check on your Mac OS

Lecture 3: Dealing with the BBoD (Beach Ball of Death)

Lecture 4: How to Safely Uninstall an Application

Chapter 10: In the Cloud

Lecture 1: iCloud Basics

Lecture 2: Internet Security

Instructors

Robin Nichols
Freelance Writer and Lecturer at Sydney University

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1 stars: 4 votes

2 stars: 5 votes

3 stars: 24 votes

4 stars: 70 votes

5 stars: 115 votes

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