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Technical Requirements

The hardware and software components that are recommended or required to ensure the best possible online learning experience are listed below:

Recommended

Minimum

Hardware Platform

Windows 2000, XP or Vista
Pentium 3
Sound capable

Windows 98
Pentium 2
Sound capable

MAC OS X
G3
Sound capable

MAC 9
G3
Sound capable

Screen Resolution

1024 x 768 pixels

800 x 600 pixels

Internet

High Speed ADSL (Broadband) or Cable
connection to the internet

56k modem connection to the Internet

Internet Browser

Mozilla Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 6.01 or greater

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2
Internet Explorer 5.5

Opera and Safari will not display the built-in HTML editor

Pop-up Blockers

Some papers use pop-up windows, therefore you will need to disable pop-up blockers in your browser.

Applications (programs)

Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint

Word Processor
Excel Viewer
PowerPoint Viewer

Open Office is a free alternative office suite application available to download from website: www.openoffice.org

Multimedia Plugins

Windows Media Player
RealPlayer
Apple Quicktime 6
Acrobat reader

Flash player 8
ShockWave player
Java Applets
Java Mac OSX

Need to download one of these requirements? Follow the appropriate links below to download what you need.*

*Not all requirements are free to install.