Your System
This is some useful information about your internet browser that is supplied by your browser to this site.
If you are experiencing problems using Blackboard, this information may be useful when getting support.
Browser Friendly Name
Browser Code Name
Browser Name
Browser Version
User-Agent
The official list of browsers and operating systems supported by our current version of Blackboard can be found in this Blackboard Knowledge Base article.
Blackboard's Requirements
These items are required for certain aspects of Blackboard to function correctly.
Cookies must be enabled to login to Blackboard and Java is used for things such as Wimba.
Java™ Enabled
(Click here to confirm result or determine version.)
Cookies Enabled
Optional Niceties
These items are not required to access Blackboard, but some may improve your experience.
This is not a list of installed applications, but rather of browser specific plugins:
i.e. having Windows Media Player installed does not necessarily mean you have the plugin installed in your browser.
QuickTime
Windows Media Player
Flash
RealPlayer
Shockwave
Pop-ups
Blackboard may attempt to interact, or communicate with you via alert messages or pop-up windows.
To test that your browser is capable to displaying and is not blocking these for this site try clicking the buttons below.
Alert Message
Pop-up Window
Commonly Used 3rd Party File Types
Many documents availble to download from Blackboard will be one of the following file types.
Click on the file type name, i.e. .doc, to download the file. If you can open and view the file then you're laughin'.
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.doc
Microsoft Word (97 - 2003)
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.docx
Microsoft Word (2007 / XML)
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.xls
Microsoft Excel (97 - 2003)
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.xlsx
Microsoft Excel (2007 / XML)
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.ppt
Microsoft PowerPoint (97 - 2003)
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.pptx
Microsoft PowerPoint (2007 / XML)
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.pdf
Adobe Portable Document
Thanks to Durham University for the page concept, and thanks to PluginDetect.js for plugin detection.