MAC MyITlab users.pdf - Scf

Hello there Mac users, If you would like to access myitlab using your Mac, here’s how you do it.

Before we begin, please note… First of all, Mac users will be logging in using 90-minute sessions (Please don't ask why, I have yet to figure this out). For each 90-minute session you use, you will be given new “Remote Desktop Credentials” (Figure 4). Thus you would have to click and input the new credentials every time your session expires or every time you would like to access our course on myitlab.

Mac Users log in differently To log in, click on “Mac User – Click Here” on www.myitlab.com. A “MAC USER Login/Register” page should appear (Figure 3). Enter your myitlab username and password if you have already registered. After you log in, a “Remote Desktop Credentials” page will be displayed (Figure 4).

Figure 1 - Myitlab login for Mac Users

Figure 2 - Mac User - Click Here

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Figure 3 - MAC USER Login/Register Page

New credentials are required for each new session

First-time user? Click on this link.

Figure 4 - Remote Desktop Credentials Page

Don’t fear, although this page seems foreboding, it is here to give us the “Remote Desktop Credentials” which is just the username and password needed to run the remote sessions for myitlab.

First-time user? First-time users must download the “Remote Desktop Connection Client” software that runs the RDP file. Note that after this software is downloaded and installed on your machine, you would not have to do it again- yay!

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So, if this is your first time ever trying to get the RDP file to run, click on the “here” link circled in red on Figure 4. This takes you to a web page that permits you to download the required software to run the RDP file. Select “Remote Desktop” on the website that appears (Figure 5). Under “Available Downloads” select “Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.1.1” and click on 6).

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Figure 5 - Install MS RDC (Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.1.1)

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Figure 6 - Download the Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.1.1

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Believe it or not, another webpage appears for you to click download again. Click

(Figure 7).

Double-click on the downloaded “RDC_2-1.1.1_All.dmg” file (Figure 8) from Safari’s “Downloads” window. Then find and double-click on the “RDC Installer.mpkg” “Install Microsoft RDC for Mac” window. Click

(Figure 9). You will then see the

and follow any installation instructions.

Figure 8 - Thank you for downloading page

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Double-click on this mpkg icon to run the installer.

Figure 9 - RDC Installer

Figure 10 - Installation Wizard

When installation is complete, click on the

(Figure 11).

Double-click on the downloaded “RemoteConnect-x.rdp” file (Figure 11). When prompted to enter the “User name” and “Password”, input the “Remote Desktop Credentials” that were generated on this page but don’t worry about the “Domain:” textbox - leave this blank. Then click “OK”. There may be an error message saying that “The server name on the certificate is incorrect”, just ignore it and click (Figure 13). The myitlab login page (Figure 14) should show up. Enter your myitlab username/password…and now you are ready to use myitlab for up to 90 minutes.

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Double-click on your rdp file download. Your filename may have a different number or no number at all.

Figure 11 - Remote Connect RDP in Downloads Dialog Box

Leave the Domain textbox blank

Figure 12 - Remote Desktop Connection Window

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Figure 13 - Error Message

Figure 14 - myitlab Login Page

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