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The distance education courses
use technology created by Blackboard
Inc., the leading provider of Internet infrastructure
software for e-Education. The minimum technical specifications
needed to participate in a distance education course are listed
below. Your online learning experience may be enhanced with
more up-to-date hardware and software. Some courses may have
additional hardware and/or software requirements. Please refer
to the course description for this
information.
Minimum Hardware and Software Requirements
| PLATFORMS |
HARDWARE |
SOFTWARE |
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| Windows 98, 2000, ME or XP |
128MB RAM |
Adobe
Acrobat Reader |
| MacOS 9 or MacOS X |
1 GB of free disk space |
Microsoft Word |
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Pentium II, 466 Mhz |
Excel |
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PowerPoint |
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Virus protection |
| BROWSERS |
CONNECTIONS |
EMAIL |
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| Firefox is recommended (A free download
from www.mozilla.org) |
56K Dialup |
An AU email account will be
established for you. |
| or Internet Explorer 6 with Service Pack
2 installed |
NOTE: In Internet Explorer,
the Advanced Privacy Setting should
be set to accept first party cookies. |
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| (If you prefer to use another account,
you will have to make sure your AU account is set for
automatic forwarding.) |
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