Hello everyone this is David A Cox the founder and CEO at PCClassesOnline.com
and today I'm going to be showing you everything you need to know to get
started with
using our service. We are a 100%
free organization open to the public and currently have members
in over 160 countries. I started our service because
after having a local business and working one-on-one with people
also teaching some classes I learned that my gift
wasn't knowing the technology it was finding a way to communicate
it in a way to all of you that is friendly
easy to follow and makes you want to learn more
and so I wanted to take what I was good at and make it available to
anyone out there who wanted to learn so I hope you really do enjoy
our service now when you get your website let me show you how to use it
first thing you need to do if you haven't already done so is to sign
up and you can do that by just clicking right here that's going to scroll down
to the bottom of the page
where we're gonna ask you some very simple questions like your name
email address we want to know how you heard about us
one easy way you can support our organization is by telling your friends
whether it's
in person on the phone or social media and finally
we want to know what country you live in just for our own information
now it's very important that you should know your information is private
and we do not sell your email address or any information to
any third party companies or organizations when you're done
click send my info once you've done that
you're going to receive an automatic email back from us
which is going to contain one button that you need to click to confirm
that you have the correct email address entered now
if you go to your email and you do not see that email
please check your junk mail many times the very first communication you
ever receive from us tends to go into your junk or spam folder
and not only do you need to click that button but you
also need to make sure that you mark the message as not junk
that will prevent any future emails from us from going into the same folder
now when you do that you'll receive a final enough from us which should
answer many of your questions it's also going to contain the password
that you're going to need access our website and also
it will have a link to a small piece of software that you're gonna wanna put
into your computer
if you would like to attend our live classes at some point in the future
now with that password you're gonna click here
ware says members area the way our passwords work is very
very simple I know people hate password so I wanted to do something
that no other website had done and keep it just very
very simple you will receive an email from us
every single month on the last day of the month
usually right around midnight if you happen to be in our time zone this
email contains more than anything the password that you are going to need
access our website for the next month these passwords
never use capital letters they never use symbols
or numbers or spaces their always
also they have something to do with the month so it's very easy to remember them
but if you want you can also print it out so you have a reference now
when you are in the Members page there's a whole bunch of different things that
you can do
red appear at the top you're gonna see classes that we have a recently
talk weather live or pre-recorded and we record
every single class that we teach so let's say you want to learn about how to
permanently delete facebook messages
you can I find it somewhat these videos aren't hour-long
others might be two or three minutes there's a whole variety of content out
there
and work constantly adding more and more classes
now to play the actual video just click right here in the middle
the play button a couple other things I wanna show you
is let's say you're viewing the video and it looks a little pixelated it
somehow distorted
doesn't look quite right here's how you can change that
once you've started playing the video you should see this little
gear icon down here at the bottom right if you click on that
you be able to change the video resolution to
high-definition that's one of the questions we receive a lot
the email also if you don't wanna watch it in this teeny tiny little box
you can click this button down here at the bottom right to turn into full
screen mode
now as it says on the screen right now if you ever want to exit fullscreen
just tapped the Escape key on your keyboard that would be the button
at the top left another feature that is brand new that weird just
starting to offer with some of our popular classes
is we have added close captioning so this is perfect if you happen to be
hearing-impaired or if you speak a language natively
other than English you can translate it into almost
every language out there with the first ones to do this
for this kind of technology so we really hope you do enjoy
when you're done doing the video we love hearing your feedback especially if you
like it
workers things to think that we could teach better any suggestions really
would like creative criticism
you can leave that info by scrolling down and click
great here and enter comment she can ask if your name
email and you can hit post comment
now we're gonna go back to the members area animal sure you with you
other features that you can use appear at the top right we have various
categories
so if you have one particular topic you really want to focus on
you can click here and tell it to just focus
on videos that have to do with iMovie or the iPad
or whatever you want the other thing we im
have here is that now we are creating a section
foreclose captions supported videos so that'll just show you videos that have
that particular
option the processor adding closed captions is
very long it's very difficult and so we don't have a ton
right now but we are adding more and more in the near future
now to take a live class this is what you need to do
over here on the right hand side Israel see all of our classes for the future
these classes are offered every Saturday and Sunday
at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time if you don't live in Eastern Standard Time
I'm gonna show you how to convert it to your time zone
so let's say I want to take email tips tricks and honest advice
just click right here and you click the Sign up button
right here can ask you first %um very basic information just your name and
email address
and you can click the button that says register now as of today's date
up to a hundred people at a time can attend a live class
so when did password comes out for the month the first thing you're gonna want
to do is look at the live classes
offered and if there's any the particularly interest you sign up right
away because there may not be room
later on if PC classes online keeps growing at the rate
is right now we will eventually add support so that up to a thousand people
can attend a lot class at a time now if you want to convert this to your time
zone
just click right up here where it says show in my time zone
when you registered for the class you're gonna receiving email back
with again one button which you're gonna need to click at the time
up the class we actually recommend that you go
into the class five to ten minutes before it actually begins
now if you have already signed up for service and didn't
read the initial email we sent you there's a piece of software that you're
going to need to have
in your computer in order to attend this class
to do these classes we use a simple technology called go to meeting
if you don't have it yet you can just go on the web
to go to meeting dot com scroll down to the
very very bottom up their website and here in the dead center
in tiny print it says download goto meeting for customers
when you click that button no matter what kind of computer your on
its gonna download the software and it's gone ask you when it's done
for a username and password despite what you might think
you actually want to hit cancel at that point because the software is now
on your computer and it will only run when you go to take a live class
finally what I would like to do is show you a few simple ways that you can
support
our service and we really do enjoy
being able to provide this but to keep things free
cost money for example every time we send out in
email two of our members that cost money
the cost to host our website all these things do cost money so there's a few
simple simple things
that all you can do to help us out the first
and most important one is to tell your friends the second way that you can do
it
is you can sign up and follow our YouTube page
and you can do that by clicking the button in your school in the middle of
your screen
right now and finally coming in the next couple days from now
we're gonna be introducing a brand new store
where you can buy products that we recommend
we don't put any products out there that we haven't personally used and approvals
and what will happen is when you go to that store all of the links
are actually to other web sites but when you buy through them
we receive credit in a small commission its easy way that you can get products a
great
rate no matter where you live in the world and also support our service
this is David a Cox with PC classes online dot com
I hope you do enjoy using our website please tell your friends
and hopefully I'll look forward to meeting olive you and our live classes
that's all everyone take care