If you can run PC software on your Mac, you can run MINITAB. But students in the past have told me of some things that didn't work smoothly, and we have worked out solutions to these.
You need to be able to prepare a word-processing document that your instructor can read electronically, paste MINITAB output into it, and submit it to StatsPortal electronically. Some students have mentioned these problems and solutions.
*Problem: Student didn't have an web browser on the PC side, so couldn't download a data file from the instructor web pages, copy it to the computer, and then open it in MINITAB.
*Solution: Downloaded and installed a web browser on the PC side.
* Problem: Student couldn't copy the information from the MINITAB output under the PC emulator and then paste it into their word-processing program running under the Mac OS. (Apparently what was "copied to the clipboard" in the PC side was no longer available on the clipboard after they closed the PC side and opened the Mac side.)
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Solution: Prepared the word-processing document in some software on the PC side.
* Problem: Student didn't have any word processing program on the PC side.
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Solution: Student downloaded OpenOffice for a Windows computer, a free office suite program, and used that on the PC side. (OpenOffice is also available for other operating systems.) I think that probably you could use Google Docs for this too, but haven't tried it yet. Google docs is a web-based office suite, so is independent of the operating system of the computer.
Last updated April 30, 2009 . Mary Parker