Electronic Files portion of materials only open on PC - not MAC

Thank you for your interest in Teaching Point materials. We serve schools in all 50 U.S. states and over 75 countries with over 115 subject-specific instructional support materials and believe from the response from our client schools and educators that we are the only supplier in the world of these complete materials beyond the textbook.

In answer to your question about the use of our files on a MAC, although we deliver a substantial notebook of instructional support materials in printed form, we also supply some of those same materials on a CD or in download form. Those electronic files include editable assessments (Word doc) , editable class notes (PowerPoint's) and a PDF of the student book to print.

As mentioned earlier, these can all be delivered in printed form, however, to protect the electronic versions of the materials we use a digital rights management system for our patent-pending and copyrighted intellectual property. Unfortunately, the current versions of digital rights management programs we have reviewed do not support or protect files on MAC computers.

This is a disappointment to us as it is to the MAC users who wish to use the materials on their favored platform. On the other hand, over 90% of the world's computers are PC's and those who are using MAC's usually find a PC on which to use our materials given they are very helpful with new and unavoidable out-of-field assignments. The suppliers of these security programs are working on a MAC solution - they just don't have it yet.

We hope this is a helpful explanation and the MAC question does not represent too much of a deterrent to you in considering these complete instructional support materials all with mentoring teacher access through email.