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MACINTOSH INSTALLATION
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A week before class starts...

This program may be installed and used free of charge.

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  1. Make sure your system meets the following requirements:
    • Mac OS-9 (OS 8.6 to 9.x) or
    • Mac OS-X (OS 10.x)
  2. Download the macintosh client [5MB].
  3. After the file has downloaded, double-click the icon on your Desktop, INSTALL FIRST CLASS CLIENT.
  4. The installation will begin now. Select the DEFAULT responses with the mouse.
  5. When installation has finished, click on QUIT.
  6. Now, double-click on the FIRST CLASS icon.
  7. In the Login window, click once on SETUP.
  8. In the line titled SERVER type learnonline.sbccd.cc.ca.us then click once on SAVE.
  9. In the FirstClass Login window, type test for the User ID and Password then click once on LOGIN.
    • You cannot do any work from this desktop.
    • The sole purpose for this test account is for you to verify your connection.
    • There is a very short time limit, 10 seconds should be all the time you will need.
    • You will see only 3 basic folders, Mailbox, News, and Help; not a class folder yet.
  10. After successful login, you may delete the icon INSTALL FIRST CLASS CLIENT from your Macintosh Desktop.

Beginning on the first day of class...

(Students will not have access with their User ID until the first day of the semester.)

  1. Establish a connection to the internet with your ISP.
  2. On your Macintosh Desktop, click twice on the alias icon, FIRST CLASS.
  3. In the FirstClass Login window, type your User ID and Password then click once on Login.
    • User ID is your first name initial, middle name initial, and all of your last name.
    • All lower case, NO punctuation, NO spaces.
    • Password is your Student ID number for the college, all 7 digits (not your SS number).

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