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Technology Requirements
| MAC | PC |
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| Mac* OS 8.1 or later 128 MB RAM 65MB virtual memory 604 PowerPC* (200 MHz or better) Internet connection, Web browser Microsoft Internet Explorer* 5.5 or later or Netscape* 4.7 or later SOME classes might require CD-ROM |
333MHz Intel® Pentium® processor or equivalent, 128MB of RAM, 56Kbps modem, 16-bit sound card and speakers 65,000-color video display card (video) Windows 98 operating system or newer Internet connection and either Internet Explorer 5.5 or Netscape 4.7 or later SOME classes might require CD-ROM |
| *Windows 95, Pentium processor (or equivalent) and 28.8 modem are required to view video. | |
The following hardware and software are minimum specifications to work with the Blackboard application:
Platform: Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, or ME; MacOS 9 or MacOS X
Hardware: 64 MB of RAM, 1 G of free disk space
Software: Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat Reader
Browser: Client Browser Configuration Guide (See chart below)
Modem: 56 K
| Blackboard Learning System (Release 6. 0 and 6. 1) Client Browser Configuration Guide |
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| Microsoft® Internet Explorer | Netscape® Navigator® | ||||||||
| 5.0 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 4.76 | 4.77 | 6.2 | 7.0 |
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| Windows 2000* | X | n/a | n/a | X | X | X | X | ||
| Windows XP | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | X | X | |||
| Mac OS 9.2 | X | n/a | n/a | NS | X | NS | X | ||
| Mac OS X.1 | X | X | n/a | n/a | NS | NS | NS | X | |
| Mac OS X.2 | X | n/a | n/a | NS | NS | NS | X | ||
NOTES:
Client Browser Configurations marked with an "X" are Certified. Certified configurations have undergone a thorough set of tests conducted by Blackboard Quality Assurance and are 100% supported by Blackboard Product Support.
Client Browser Configurations marked with "n/a" are configuration combinations not supported by Apple, Microsoft or Netscape.
Client Browser Configurations marked with "NS" are not supported by Blackboard. There are known issues with these configurations and Blackboard recommends that you avoid using these configurations.
All other configurations are Compatible. Compatible Client Browser Configurations have undergone a limited engineering analysis, and this designation indicates that Blackboard is not aware of any issues resulting from that configuration.
*Microsoft Windows 2000 supported configurations are considered compatible when run on Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME.
Certified configurations have undergone a thorough set of tests conducted by Blackboard Quality Assurance and are 100% supported by Blackboard Product Support.
