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Supported operating system, browser, and additional requirements

Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate (32-bit edition, or 64-bit edition with 32-bit browser)

   * Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (or later) or Mozilla Firefox 3.x (or later)
    * Adobe Flash Player 10.1 or later

Microsoft Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise (32-bit edition, or 64-bit edition with 32-bit browser)

   * Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (or later) or Mozilla Firefox 3.x (or later)
    * Adobe Flash Player 10.1 or later

Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2

   * Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (or later) or Mozilla Firefox 3.x (or later)
    * Adobe Flash Player 10.1 or later

Windows hardware requirements

   * Windows XP: 450MHz Intel® Pentium® II or faster processor or equivalent (128MB of RAM, 512MB recommended)
    * Windows Vista: 1GHz Intel Pentium II or faster processor or equivalent (1GB of RAM)

Mac OS X v10.4, 10.5, 10.6 (Intel)

   * Mozilla Firefox 3.x (or later) or Safari 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x
    * Adobe Flash Player 10.1 or later

Mac OS X v10.4 (PowerPC®)

   * Safari 2.x or Mozilla Firefox 3.x (or later)
    * Adobe Flash Player 10.1 or later

Mac OS hardware requirements

   * 500MHz PowerPC G3 or faster or 1.83GHz Intel Core™ Duo or faster processor
    * 128MB of RAM (512MB recommended)

Linux®:

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.x, 5.x; Novell SUSE® 9.x or 10.x

   * Mozilla Firefox 3.x (or later)
    * Adobe Flash Player 10.1

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Other Requirements

You will require a broadband connection as well as the above. To check you have everything required test your system here:- https://admin.acrobat.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

As the tutorials are in English you must have a good standard of the English language in order to participate

A VOIP headset is recommended so that you can talk to other students and ask the tutor questions.

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In addition a webcam may be useful to allow other students to see you from time to time.

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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.