This training provides an overview of the Mac desktop and its key components: - The desktop space contains files and folders for easy access. The Dock allows quick access to applications. The Menu Bar provides program functions. - The Dock can be customized by adding or removing applications. - The Menu Bar changes based on the active program and provides program-specific options. - Additional features like right clicking require enabling mouse settings. Right clicking provides options to create folders or change desktop backgrounds. - Devices can be safely ejected by dragging their icons to the trash icon.

2. This training is going to be your guide as we tour your new Apple computer. It is here to try to make learning this new system very easy and simple. Feel free to move through each lesson at your own pace. The materials have been developed to assist your learning process as you discover this new computer for yourself.To continue to the next slide, tap the space bar.

3. ABOUT BTOPThe American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) with $7.2 billion to expand access to broadband services in the United States. Of those funds, the Act provided $4.7 billion to NTIA to support the deployment of broadband infrastructure, enhance and expand public computer centers, encourage sustainable adoption of broadband service, and develop and maintain a nationwide public map of broadband service capability and availability.

4. DESKTOPLet’s take a look at what is going to be in our lesson ahead Anatomy of the Desktop

5. A brief description of each part

6. Using the Dock

7. Features of the DesktopDESKTOPGetting Started With The Desktop:The Desktop is what you could consider the base, or root, of everything that you do on your computer. The Mac desktop consist of three main components: The desktop space, the Dock, and the Menu Bar. The desktop space contains any folders or files that you want easy access to. The Dock allows you to have quick access to applications, aka programs, that you use often. The Menu Bar gives you the main operational functions of the program you are currently in.

8. DESKTOPThe Dock:The Dock is an easy access portal for your applications. You can customize the dock for your own personal use.

9. To remove a program, simply drag it off of the Dock until you see a puff of smoke below the arrow cursor, then release. To add a program, go to Finder. Within Finder, click on the Applications folder listed in the side bar. Find the program you want to add, and click and drag it onto the dock.

10. DESKTOPThe Menu Bar:The Menu Bar gives you access to the functionality of the program you are in. The Apple logo will give you access to the computer’s essential features, such as software update and shut down. The name next to the Apple logo will change based on what program you are currently in.

11. The Menu Bar becomes specific to each program you are currently in.DESKTOPSecondary Features:When you first start your Apple computer, some features are not the default setting. To right click, you will need to hold the Control key and click.

12. The mouse settings can be changed to enable the right click feature.

13. DESKTOPChanging The Mouse Features: First, click on the System Preferences icon in the Dock

14. Once in System Preferences, click on the Mouse option.

15. Now that you are in the mouse settings, change the option associated with the right mouse button to “Secondary Button”