Apple Mac for Absolute Beginners

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