Conference in FirstClass

Runkle School Conference in FirstClass

FirstClass is the email client we use in Brookline.  When you log into FirstClass, you see your FirstClass desktop.  This has many icons on it.  One icon that you should see is the Runkle School conference icon.  A  FirstClass conference allows users to exchange messages, documents in a common location.  This conference often has school announcements from the central office, superintendent, principal, other teachers, and much more.  In the conference there are folders located at the top.  These folders contain documents that might be helpful to you at one time or another.  Two folders that I remind people about each year is the Technology & Library folder.  and the Forms and Such folder.  Check them out!

Printer People

Setting Preview as your default .pdf viewer

Many emails we receive have .pdfs as attachments.  On the Mac platform, we have a convenient tool called Preview that is built to view .pdfs and .jpgs pretty nicely.

To make Preview your default .pdf viewer, control + click (which is equivalent to right-click) on any .pdf, and choose Get Info.  Or, click once on the .pdf and hit command + i (Get Info).

In the section Open with: Change the default viewer from Adobe Reader to Preview by selectingPreview from the drop-down list.  If it’s not in the list, click Choose Other… which will bring you to your Applications folder.  Then choose Preview.
To use Preview as the default, click Change All… at the bottom of this window.