Blackboard™ Learning System Vista/CE Enterprise is tested with a variety of technologies.
Vista 8.0 SP(8.0.6) supports the technologies below.
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® 9
Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer 7
Firefox (Final Release Channel)
Firefox® 3.6
Windows® XP (32-bit)
Unsupported
Compatible
Unsupported
Compatible
Compatible
Windows Vista® (32-bit)
Certified
Certified
Compatible
Certified
Compatible
Windows Vista (64-bit)
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Windows 7 (32-bit)
Certified
Certified
Unsupported
Certified
Compatible
Windows 7 (64-bit)
Compatible
Compatible
Unsupported
Compatible
Compatible
Apple® Mac OS® Operating System
Safari® 5.0
Safari 4
Safari 3.2
Firefox (Final Release Channel)
Firefox 3.6
Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard®"
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Mac OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard®"
Certified
Compatible
Unsupported
Certified
Compatible
Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9 were tested in Standards Mode only.
Firefox 3.5 is no longer supported.
Google Chrome is not supported.
Blackboard strives to make all its products as accessible as possible. JAWS 11 and 12 are used during accessibility testing.
Vista/CE 8.0 SP6 was tested with JRE 6
Mozilla Firefox has moved to a rapid release cycle. At the time of testing, Firefox 5.0 was the latest available version. Since then, new stable versions may have been released and widely adopted. Blackboard is supporting all newer stable versions of Firefox. For further detail on Firefox's release cycle please review the material available at http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/04/13/new-channels-for-firefox-rapid-releases/.
