Minimum Hardware Requirements

 All subjects K-High School

All¹

Mac®¹

Windows®¹

100 Mbps NIC
256 Kbps/student

800 MHz PowerPC® G4 1.83 GHz
Intel® Core™ Duo

1.5 GHz Pentium® 4

100 MB available disk space for browser cache

Macintosh sound, speakers or headphones

Windows Certified Sound Card, speakers or headphones

Home Access minimum 256 kbps broadband connection²

Recommended:  Color printer, faster CPU, more RAM, larger monitor, faster Internet connection

 K-8 only

All

Mac®

Windows®

Internet access via LAN:

greater or equal to 128 kbps per concurrent user

256 MB RAM or greater

256 MB RAM or greater

800 x 600 video, 256 colors

 High School only

All

Mac®

Windows®

Internet access via LAN:

minimum 256 kbps per concurrent user

512 MB RAM or greater

1 GB RAM or greater

High School requires Internet access at student workstations

1024 x 768 video, 256 colors

1. Netbooks with a minimum screen size of 10.1” running Windows XP are supported for student users only.

2. Performance and activity loading time varies with speed of Internet connection.

  Supported Software Environments

Windows®

Macintosh®

Windows XP¹, Windows 7

Mac OSX 10.4.9 and above

Internet Explorer 7.0

Firefox 3.5

Safari 3 (requires 10.4 or 10.5)

Firefox  3.5.1

Adobe Flash Player 10.0

Adobe Acrobat Reader® 9 or 10

Adobe Shockwave® Player 10.0 or 11²

Microsoft® Silverlilght® 4

Sun Java Virtual Machine 1.4.2 or 1.5³

Javascript 1.2

Microsoft Agent⁴

Adobe Flash Player 10.0

Adobe Acrobat Reader® 9 or 10

Adobe Shockwave® Player 10.0 or 11²

Microsoft® Silverlilght® 4

Sun Java Virtual Machine 1.4.2 or 1.5³

Javascript 1.2

1. Netbooks with a minimum screen size of 10.1” running Windows XP are supported for student users only.

2. Required for ELL Elementary and Algebra.

3. Required for ELL Secondary.

4. Optional for HTML activities.