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System Requirements

To utilize our services and all of its unique features fully, your computer must

  • have English as the default display and input language,
  • have Microsoft Windows XP or higher (Vista, 7 etc.) or Macintosh OS X 10.3.9 or higher (10.4.x, 10.5.x or 10.6.x) with administrator privileges,
  • use Pentium III 800MHz or faster (Pentium IV 1.5 GHz or higher preferred) processor for Windows and G4 700 MHz or faster (1.2 GHz or higher preferred) processor for Macintosh,
  • have a minimum of 256 MB of RAM (512 MB or higher preferred),
  • have Java Runtime Environment version 1.5 for Windows (available at http://javadl.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=30981) and version 1.4 or higher for Macintosh (available at http://developer.apple.com/java/download/) installed or have necessary administrative rights to install it,
  • have a reliable Internet service via 56k dial-up or faster (high-speed connection preferred),
  • use Internet Explorer v6.0 or higher or Firefox v1.5 or higher for Windows and Safari v1.0 or higher for Macintosh (browser must have Javascript and cookies enabled),
  • have Adobe® Flash® Player, 8.0 or higher installed (available at http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/)
  • have a screen resolution of 1024x768 or higher pixels.

Please be advised that these are the bare minimum requirements for our software to properly function. The presence of a personal firewall, such as Norton, ZoneAlarm, McAfee, Little Snitch etc. or network firewall (setup by school, work, hospital, library, or public Wi-Fi administrator), proxy server (setup by school, work, hospital, library, public, or Wi-Fi administrator), VPN, cookie and cache management products may adversely affect your experience.

We do not support any other browsers like Netscape, AOL, Opera, etc. or virtualization applications or any other operating system environments like Unix, Linux, etc. Trying to log-in from unsupported browsers, non supported computers, accessing the contents of courses by disabling scripting Internet options is a violation of the terms and conditions.

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