Force and Motion: Computer Requirements
NSTA Online Short Courses are interactive learning experiences delivered via a computer
with Internet access. Below are the minimum computer requirements for a successful
short course experience.
With NSTA Online Short Courses, help is always a click away. If you need assistance
or have questions regarding the course's computer requirements, click on the "Help"
button located at the top right of this page. A help desk representative will respond
to your questions via e-mail or phone.
SciPack:
SciPacks are on-demand e-professional development to help you better understand
the content you teach. The SciPack provides a system check to make sure that you
have the required computer elements for a successful experience. Your computer should
have the following:
- Operating system
- Windows 98, 2000 or XP
- Mac OS 9 or OS X V10
- Internet connectivity
- 56K modem minimum
- Broadband* (recommended)
- Browser (cookies and Java must be enabled)
- Windows
- Internet Explorer 5.5* or higher (recommended)
- NetScape 6.2 or higher
- Mac
- Monitor
- Minimum 800 x 600 resolution
- Sound card and speakers
- Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device
- Browser plugins
Live Web Sessions:
Computer Minimum Requirements:
Windows:
- Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Pentium III 500 MHz processor
- 256 MB RAM
- 20 MB free disk space
- Soundcard with speakers and microphone or headset
- 28.8 kbps Internet connection
Apple Mac OS X:
- Mac OS X 10.2.8, 10.3.9, and 10.4
- G3, G4, G5, or Intel processor
- 256 MB RAM
- 20 MB free disk space
- Microphone (internal, USB, or iSight)
- 28.8 kbps Internet connection
NOTE: For a better audio signal, we recommend using an external microphone and external
speakers. Common PC microphones do not work in a Mac microphone jack, so Mac users
should use USB microphones. We do support the internal microphone in an iSight camera,
under OS X 10.3.9 or later UltraSPARC Solaris:
- Solaris 10 (SPARC only)
- UltraSPARC llc 300 MHz
- 128 MB RAM
- 20 MB free disk space
- Soundcard with speakers and microphone or headset
- 28.8 kbps Internet connection
Red Hat Linux
- Red Hat Linux (RHEL4)
- Pentium III 1 GHz processor
- 256 MB RAM
- 20 MB free disk space
- Soundcard with speakers and microphone or headset
- 28.8 kbps Internet connection
Novell Linux
- Novell SUSE Linux 9 and 10
- Pentium III 1 GHz processor
- 256 MB RAM
- 20 MB free disk space
- Soundcard with speakers and microphone or headset
- 28.8 kbps Internet connection
The first time you login to a short course web seminar, Elluminate Live will perform a system check to detect if your computer has Java installed. If you do not have Java installed Elluminate will install it for you.
For more information contact shortcourses@nsta.org