Blackboard™ Learning System Vista/CE Enterprise is tested with a variety of technologies.
Vista 8.0 SP4 (8.0.4) supports the technologies below. There were no changes from SP4 to SP5.
Certified: fully tested and supported. Compatible: partially tested but should function properly. Provisional: future technologies considered supported by Blackboard Support. Unsupported: either impossible or not tested.
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Internet Explorer® 8
Internet Explorer 7
Firefox® 3.6
Firefox 3.5
Windows® XP (32-bit)
Compatible
Unsupported
Compatible
Compatible
Windows Vista® (32-bit)
Certified
Compatible
Certified
Compatible
Windows Vista (64-bit)
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Windows 7 (32-bit)
Certified
Unsupported
Certified
Compatible
Windows 7 (64-bit)
Compatible
Unsupported
Compatible
Compatible
Apple® Mac OS® Operating System
Safari® 5.0
Safari 4
Safari 3.2
Firefox 3.6
Firefox 3.5
Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard®"
Provisional
Certified
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Mac OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard®"
Provisional
Certified
Unsupported
Certified
Compatible
Internet Explorer 8 was tested in Standards Mode only.
Deprecations from Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 6
Internet Explorer 7 (Windows XP only)
Firefox 3.0
Mac OSX 10.4 "Tiger®"
Google Chrome is not supported.
Blackboard strives to make all its products as accessible as possible. JAWS 9 and 10 are used during accessibility testing.
In the past some clients have experienced trouble using the Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6. Vista/CE 8.0 SP4 was tested with both Sun JRE 5 and JRE 6. We support these versions and if issues arise please contact Blackboard Client Support for full support.
