Hope you are finding the .US Educational Website informative and inspiring. To help you connect with our online classes and tutorials, we have established a few guidelines to best view our website content.

Project Source Files

For many of the online classes you will need to have access to the project source files. Project source files will become available to students who have completed and submitted the ice-breaker assignment. The Ice-Breaker assignment must be completed within the first 10 percent of class to secure class enrollment. For Independent students, the 10% rule may vary slight from class to class – please be sure to check with your instructor.

Ice-Breaker Assignment

To complete the Ice-Breaker assignment, simply locate the lesson plan page class you enrolled for. The Ice-Breaker will be on the class lesson home page. Instructions for AB Tech student are included with the “Welcome” announcement on Blackboard, Independent Students will be emailed access information within 24 hours of class payment being processed.
To access the project source files you will be required to enter an access password.

Password

Independent Students
If you need help recovering a password, please email password@irishguy.info – for faster service be sure in include your receipt number.
A-B Tech Online Students:
Password to your online lesson plan is included with you Blackboard Welcome Announcement. If you need to reset your Blackboard password, please email Caroline Brigmon – CE Coordinator, Computer Training Department CBrigmon@abtech.edu. For A-B Tech students that need help accessing or resetting their A-B Tech email please contact Elizabeth Williams Software Support Specialist, Helpdesk – EKWilliams@abtech.edu

Screen Resolution

Screen resolution communicates the amount of  clarity that the computer screen can display graphics and text.

Below is the recommended Screen Resolution settings to view the Computer Training online class lessons and software tutorials. Website content was developed and tested to display correctly with a Screen Resolution of 1280 X 1024 pixels and with a 32 Bit Color quality.

If you choice to access the Classes and Tutorial pages with a different Screen Resolutions (which is perfectly okay to do), expect that a higher resolution will make images appear smaller while on-screen graphics will appear increasingly sharper. Lower Screen Resolution  will create the opposite effect. Screen graphics will appear to be larger, while the edge of the graphics may appear to have uneven and blurry edges.

Please consult your computer hand-book for instructions on how to access your computer display resolution.

Windows Platform

The suggested  Screen Resolution for Windows (PC) users.

APPLE Platform

Will follow up with a screen capture from the MAC platform. Content for site is still in PC Beta form and has not been tested for performance on the Mac platform. Mac platform testing is scheduled for 2010 for performance issues and  web browser integration.

How to Unzip files

Students enrolled for any of our online classes are expect to have basic computer knowledge and feel comfortable handling and organizing digital  files. When available Project Source Files are normally packaged as a compressed ZIP file. For students that are unsure or uncomfortable uncompressing ZIP files – then is helpful video tutorial is prefect for you. Video includes easy to follow steps and information on how to unzip a compress ZIP file.

How to View / Read PDF files

Many of the online presentations, class icebreaker and lesson documents are published as PDF (Portable Document Format) files.  To be able to read the PDF files, you first need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Most personal computers come with Adobe Acrobat reader already installed.

If your computer does not have Adobe Acrobat reader installed, you will be promoted with a friendly message instructing you to install the latest free version of Adobe Reader or you can simply visit Adobe (link below) and install the latest Adobe Reader for free.

Website Link: Install Adobe Reader