Technical Requirements
System Check
You may run a system check to ensure that your computer system is properly configured for the web courses. It
verifies your browser version, browser settings and display settings on your
computer.
Computer Requirements
Before you access your course on D2L, your system and software should meet the following
minimum requirements.
| Type |
Components |
Requirements |
| Mac User | Operating System |
|
| Office Suites |
- Microsoft Office: Office 2001, Office XP, or later
- Standard Version includes at
least Word, Excel, PowerPoint
|
| Windows User | Operating System | - Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP
|
| Office Suites |
- Microsoft Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003, or later
- Standard Version includes at least
Word, PowerPoint, Excel
|
| Common to both Mac and Windows |
Internet |
- Internet connection via Internet Service Provider (MSN, Charter, EarthLink,
NetZero, etc)
- 56 kbps modem, DSL or Cable access
|
| Browser |
- Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher with Service Pack
- Netscape Navigator
|
| Browser Plug-ins |
- Java
- Adobe Acrobat
- Real One Player
- Flash Player
|
| Email | - Must have ability to check email
|
Multimedia
(if used in course)
| - Monitor capable of 800 X 600 resolution
- Sound Card and
speakers/headphones
- CD drive, DVD Drive, or CD-RW drive
|
Browser Requirements
| Browser |
Win32 |
Mac OS X |
Linux (Red Hat 9.0) |
| Internet Explorer 6.x |
X | X | |
| Internet Explorer 5.x |
X | | |
| Netscape 4.7 (Unsupported as of D2L v8.0) | X |
X |
|
| Netscape 6.x |
X | X | |
| Netscape 7.x | X | X | |
| Mozilla Firefox 1.3 - 1.x |
X | X | X (pre-support mode) |
Download free programs and players
- PowerPoint Viewer 2003 - If you do not own the PowerPoint program, this viewer will let you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later
versions.
- Excel Viewer
2003 - Open,
view, and print Excel workbooks, even if you don't have Excel installed.
- Word Viewer
2003 - View, print, and copy Word documents, even if you don't have Word installed.
- Visio 2003
Viewer
- Visio 2002
Viewer
- Works 6.0
Converter for Works and Word Users - The
Works 6.0 Converter allows you to convert word processor documents created in
Microsoft Works 6.0 to Microsoft Word and other Works programs. Specifically,
this converter works with Works 2000, 4.5, and 4.x, and Word 2002, 2000, and
97.
For Macintosh:
