Online Course System Requirements
Supported operating systems, browsers, and additional requirements
Windows
- 1.4GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 or faster processor (or equivalent) for Microsoft® Windows® XP or Windows 7; 2GHz Pentium 4 or faster processor (or equivalent) for Windows Vista®
- Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
- 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended) for Windows XP or Windows 7; 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended) for Windows Vista
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9; Mozilla Firefox; Google Chrome
- Adobe® Flash® Player 10.3
Mac OS
- 1.83GHz Intel Core™ Duo or faster processor
- 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
- Mac OS X, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7.4, 10.8
- Mozilla Firefox; Apple Safari; Google Chrome
- Adobe Flash Player 10.3 for all users
Linux
- Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; OpenSuSE 11.3
- No Add-
in support for Linux. Users on Linux can attend meetings in the browser.* - Mozilla Firefox
- Adobe Flash Player 10.3
Mobile
- Apple: iPad, iPad2, iPad3; iPhone 4 and 4 S, iPod touch (3rd generation minimum recommended). Running iOS 4.3.x, 5.x, or 6.x (5.x or higher recommended)
- Android tested and supported devices with corresponding minimum OS: Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) with Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.4), Nexus 7 with Jelly Bean (4.1.1), Samsung Galaxy Tab (10.1) with Honeycomb (3.2), ASUS Transformer with Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0), Samsung Galaxy Tab (7”) with Froyo (2.2), Motorola Xoom with Honeycomb (3.2), Motorola Xoom 2 with Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0)
- Android supported OS versions summary: Froyo (2.2), Gingerbread (2.3), Honeycomb (3.x), Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0), Jelly Bean (4.1)
- AIR Runtime required is 3.2 or higher
Download Flash Player here
Other Requirements
You will require a broadband connection as well as the above. To check you have everything
required test your system here:-
As the tutorials are in English you must have a good standard of the English language in order to participate
A VOIP headset may be useful so that you can talk to other students and ask the tutor questions in the Intermediate course only.
Buy a headset from Amazon here
A short introductory session will be set before the classes begin to check these are set up correctly but please try and get them working on your system before the course starts.