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Mac for Seniors video course

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How to get the most out of your Mac


Welcome to the Mac for Seniors course. This is designed to give you the insights you need, in non-technical and friendly language, to master your Macintosh and other Apple products. Presented in a convenient series of 10 easy-to-follow modules presented in friendly, non-technical lingo, you’ll learn how to use your Mac, how to find your stuff, getting your email under control, how to browse the web and so much more. Just click the titles below to watch the video for each module.

Macinhome video Mac training course for seniors

Here’s your course

Module 1 - What the heck is all this? Learn to feel at home.

Topics covered:

What’s this bar across the top?
What goes here on the Desktop?
What are these icons across the bottom?
How to I move around and click on things?
How do I make it look better?

Module 2 - Where's my stuff? See things more easily and make things bigger.

Topics covered:

Techie thing: iCloud Drive, Desktop and Documents syncing
Get into your folders and documents through “Finder”
For the more old school computer users: How do I get to my hard drive?
Where do my files actually live?
Why are there so many Desktops?
Yikes it all disappeared – where did it go?
I can only see one program and nothing else!
How do I make things bigger?

Module 3 - Where SHOULD stuff go? Get organized to feel some peace of mind.

Topics covered:

Techie thing: iCloud syncing Desktop and Documents
Techie thing: iCloud syncing Photos, Contacts, Notes, etc
Where should folders and documents live?
How do I get stuff into Documents?
How do I get to my documents quickly?
Where does contact info for my friends and family go?
Where do photos go?
Where would lists and journaling or brainstorming go?
Where do programs (apps) go?

Module 4 - Where did that #&*@$ download go? Find and use downloads.

Topics covered:

I downloaded something. Where is it?
How do I get the most recent downloads to the top?
Can I delete it after I download it?
How do I move something from Downloads to Documents?
What if Downloads goes missing – how do I get it back?

Module 5 - How do I get my email under control?!

Topics covered:

Techie thing: Adding email accounts to Mac and iPhone
Techie thing: Getting Contacts in sync
How do I email a document to someone?
How and where do I save attachments someone emailed to me?
Where did my latest emails go? They disappeared.
How do I get rid of a lot of emails at once?
Do I still need to file emails into folders?
How do I get rid of the old email addresses that keep coming up?
How do I get someone’s most current email address into my contacts?

Module 6 - How do I browse the web (using Safari) safely and easily?

Topics covered:

What’s the easiest way to get to a real and safe website, like online banking?
How do I use the Favourites section?
How do I make a new Favourite bookmark?
What are these tab thingies?

Module 7 - How do I install Zoom and make it work?

Topics covered:

Techie thing: Totally ok if you don’t want to do this yourself!
Where do I get Zoom?
How do I install it?
How do I test if it’ll work?
How do I share my screen?

Module 8 - Use Microsoft Word, make documents, make PDFs

Topics covered:

Techie thing: Buying Microsoft Office and installing it
Can the free Mac “Pages” app replace Microsoft Word?
How do I save a Word document to the right place?
How do I make sure I don’t lose my progress?
Someone emailed me a Word doc. How do I save it into my folders?
How do I email it to someone?
How do I save it as a PDF?

Module 9 - Look at photos, save photos, share photos

Topics covered:

Techie thing: Getting iCloud Photos in sync with iPhone and Mac
My YouTube videos about Photos; searching and people recognition and how to use albums
How do I see ALL my most recent photos?
How do I easily identify the best ones?
How do I delete the bad photos?
How do I delete a group of bad photos?
How do I get photos from an email into my Photos app?
How do I email or share the photos?

Module 10 - How do I keep my Mac healthy, clean, and efficient?

Topics covered:

Techie thing: Storage problems? Malware? Crashing? Things not syncing?
Techie thing: Buying a hard drive, setting up backup
Which programs are okay to install and which aren’t?
How do I quit open programs to speed up my Mac?
What info will I lose when I quit my open programs?
How often should I restart or shut down the Mac?
How do I take care of the laptop battery?
Backing up with Time Machine

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