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Course Introduction

The course is designed for real estate professionals and students who are interested in how to harness the power of computer applications in day-to-day real estate business. This course introduces students to software applications used in the real estate industry for real estate practice, finance, appraisal, property management, and residential sales. This course applies toward the educational requirements for either a salesperson or broker's license. Also, how students can get huge discounts on popular software like Microsoft Office and Adobe products. This course meets the California Department of Real Estate education requirements for the Salesperson or Brokers license.

Course Orientation Information

This course uses a combination of different technology to deliver course materials over the Internet. Following are the requirements that all students must complete before beginning any work in this course:

1. Course Outline:

Click this link to get a printable version of the Course Outline.

2. Technology Requirements:

A PentiumĀ® based computer or greater, with 512 megabytes of RAM, sound card.

Your computer should have the Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista operating system installed.

A current copy of the Adobe Flash Player. You can download a free copy of the program from the Adobe Web Site http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

Headset so that you can listen to the video and audio lectures.

3. Watch Following Desire2Learn Demonstrations by selecting the for the demonstration name:

How To Log Into Desire2Learn

How To Change Your Email Address in Desire2Learn

4. Course Textbook: Currently, there is not textbook required for the course.