You need more info on what they're doing.
There is absolutely zero problem with using FTP on a Mac to upload files to a Windows or Unix server. This happens all the time (and do you really think all the ftp sites on the internet have Unix servers serving the Unix users, Windows servers serving the Windows users, and a Mac server for the Mac users? It just doesn't happen.
FTP is platform agnostic. Any OS can ftp to any other OS and back.
However, you might want to check that FTP is all that they're doing.
At least one distance learning establishment I'm aware of uses MS Exchange for the group scheduling/calendaring, and there's no effective Mac client - meaning you have to have a Windows machine to view the class schedules.
Then again, of course, it may just be a narrow-minded, brain-dead professor who doesn't know any better. Wouldn't be the first time.
There is absolutely zero problem with using FTP on a Mac to upload files to a Windows or Unix server. This happens all the time (and do you really think all the ftp sites on the internet have Unix servers serving the Unix users, Windows servers serving the Windows users, and a Mac server for the Mac users? It just doesn't happen.
FTP is platform agnostic. Any OS can ftp to any other OS and back.
However, you might want to check that FTP is all that they're doing.
At least one distance learning establishment I'm aware of uses MS Exchange for the group scheduling/calendaring, and there's no effective Mac client - meaning you have to have a Windows machine to view the class schedules.
Then again, of course, it may just be a narrow-minded, brain-dead professor who doesn't know any better. Wouldn't be the first time.