Microsoft® Windows® XP Service Pack 3,
Windows Vista®

Web Browsers

• Internet Explorer 7.0 – 8.0
• Firefox 3.0 – 3.5

  Note: For version 3.0, full-screen playback unavailable for all media players; for version 3.5, full-screen playback unavailable for Windows Media and Apple QuickTime players.

Minimum Hardware

• 1.5 GHz CPU (Recommended: 2 GHz or greater)
• 256 MB RAM (Recommended: 512 MB or greater)
• 64 MB of Video RAM

Mac OS X v10.4–10.5

Web Browsers

• Safari 3.0 – 4.0
• Firefox 3.0 – 3.5

  Note: For version 3.0, full-screen playback unavailable for all media players; for version 3.5, full-screen playback unavailable for Windows Media and Apple QuickTime players.

Minimum Hardware

• Power PC® G4 (Recommended: G5 or Intel® processor)
• 1 GHz CPU (Recommended: 1.6 GHz or greater)
• 256 MB RAM (Recommended: 512 or greater)
• 64 MB Video RAM

• SAFARI Montage Media Player – Plays both Windows Media and QuickTime, but in order to play QuickTime media, you must have QuickTime 7.6 installed.

  SAFARI Montage Media Player is required for:

  • Microsoft Windows Vista Compatibility
  • SAFARI Montage Managed Home Access Module
  • Closed Captioning Toggle
  • Alternate Language Audio Tracks
  • Enhanced Full-Screen Playback
• Apple QuickTime 7.6
• Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 (Windows platforms only; video playback not available on Mac OS)
• Adobe Flash Player 10 – Required for Visual Dictionary interactive image package.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 9
• Sun™ Java™ 6 Standard Edition – required for CreationStation uploads.

Additional software maybe required to create or view certain CreationStation content.

• Software clients for the associated file types
  • SMART Notebook Software / Notebook Interactive Viewer – .NBK
  • Promethean ActiveInspire / ActiveStudio / Flipchart Viewer - .FLP / .AS3A
  • Microsoft Office / Office Viewers – .DOC/.DOCX; .XLS/.XLSX; .PPT/.PPTX
  • Open Office - .SDW/.ODT; .SDC/.ODS; .SDD/.ODP; .ODG; .ODF; .SDP
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader - .PDF
• Interactive Whiteboard Integration – supported software versions.
• SMART Notebook Software / Notebook Interactive Viewer – v 9.5 or greater
• Promethean ActivInspire (v 1.5 or greater) / ActiveStudio (v 2.5 or greater) / Flipchart Viewer

• SAFARI Montage Media Player 4.0.x
• Apple QuickTime 7.6
• 768kbps Broadband Internet Connection

• 100Mb Wired Ethernet
• NetBIOS Protocol
  • Windows: “Client for Microsoft Networks” protocol must be active on client machines.
  • OS X: The “Samba” suite of protocols is already active. No changes are required.
• Switched Backbone
• Full Duplex