Technical Help for MAC's
Mediasite content:
Mediasite content requires the installation of a freely available, year-old
helper program called "Silverlight".
Here are the steps to play a Mediasite presentation on your Mac:
- Visit the Mediasite address linked from a Bb class.
- See an error message that Silverlight is required to view the video
of the speaker. - Click the message; Silverlight will be downloaded to your computer.
- Install the Silverlight helper application
- Restart your web browser.
- Visit the same Mediasite address, you should now be able to watch the video.
Word documents:
Since 2003, all new Macs have included a
program called TextEdit that allows viewing and editing of Word
documents. Similar to the Windows WordPad program, it is somewhat
limited to managing simple documents. However, with complicated tables
(as are not uncommon in many nursing assignments), these free programs
simply do not match the abilities of Word. On the Mac, as on the PC, our
recommendation is to use a recent edition of Microsoft Office. I am
unaware of students having difficulty with provided documents (either
reading or submitting them) who were using Office.
There are several low-cost options for document editing:
- OpenOffice (from http://www.openoffice.org/) is a free Office suite.
It is generally capable of editing Office documents but not quite
something that I would recommend to my parents (it, historically, has
not been as easy to use or stable as Office). It is frustrating in our
setting because it prefers to use its own file format that is not able
to be read by Microsoft Office (it can be forced to convert to Office
format). - Web-based Office suites, such as Zoho (http://www.zoho.com/) or
Google Documents (http://docs.google.com/) offer free document tools
that tend to do a pretty decent job with difficult files. They are
web-based but starting to be available to work without network access. - Apple iWork (Mac-only): offers tools that are similar to Word
("Pages"), PowerPoint ("Keynote"), and Excel ("Numbers"). It costs $40
for students from the computer store. Like OpenOffice, it prefers to use
its own file formats, but can export to Microsoft formats.
ERI:
Please visit the folowing link: http://www.eriworld.com/need_help/compat.aspx#Macintosh This will provide help for Mac users.
Sim Health:
The following link will take you to instructions for playing Sim Health on a Mac: http://www.son.rochester.edu/mac/simhealth/Instructions for setting up Flip4Mac (to be able to play WMV files): You can get it from Microsoft (they now are calling the (sufficient) free version "Windows Media Components
for QuickTime"). This address should work:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=915D874D-D747-4180-A400-5F06B1B5E559&displaylang=en
Install the player from there and reboot your computer.
