Online+Learning+Specs

Recommended Technical Requirements **
 * Online Learning

  system ** || **Browsers ** ||  Firefox 1.5 is not supported for Blackboard Academic Suite Release 8.0 and above. It is recommended that Firefox 1.5 users upgrade to Firefox 3.0 to access the latest security patches and Mozilla support.
 * **Platform ** || **Operating
 * PC || Windows XP || Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 ||
 * ^  ||^   || Mozilla Firefox 2 or 3 ||
 * ^  || Windows Vista || Internet Explorer 7 or 8 ||
 * ^  ||^   || Mozilla Firefox 2 or 3 ||
 * Macintosh || Mac OS 10.3 || Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or 3 ||
 * ^  || Mac OS 10.4 || Mozilla Firefox 1.5, 2 or 3 ||
 * ^  ||^   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Apple Safari 2 or 3 ||
 * ^  || Mac OS 10.5 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Firefox 2 or 3 ||
 * ^  ||^   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Apple Safari 2 or 3 ||

not meet the following minimum hardware and software requirements: || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">For best results, it is strongly recommended that students enrolled in online courses use the following hardware and software configurations in addition to or in place of the minimum requirements: || or newer || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1GHz Pentium-4 (or compatible) with Windows XP or newer || (cable, DSL, or broadband) || (800x600 or higher) and 65,000 colors or higher || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Monitor and video card capable of VGA resolution (1024x768 or higher) and 32-bit color || required for online language courses || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Minimum Requirements **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Recommended ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Online courses may not function properly on computers that do
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">500MHz Pentium-III (or compatible) with Windows 98
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">500MHz Macintosh G3 or better with OS 8 or newer || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1GHz Macintosh G3 or better with OS 10.3 or newer ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">512MB of RAM || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1GB of RAM ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1GB of free hard disk space || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">10GB of free hard disk space ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">56.6Kbps modem with active Internet connection || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1.5Mbps Internet connection or faster
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Monitor and video card capable of VGA resolution
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Sound card and speakers — a microphone is
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Adobe Flash Player 8 or higher || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-no-proof: yes;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The latest version of Sun's Java JRE || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-no-proof: yes;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Printer ||