Plug-Ins, Readers, Etc.

Here you will find the links to download all the plug-ins that Blackboard recommends you have installed on your computer. Click the logos or the link to download the plug-in.

Quicktime
Apple Quicktime adds over 200 digital media capabilities to your Mac or PC. Besides letting you enjoy MP3 music, QuickTime supports key standards for web streaming as well as every major file format for images - including JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PICT, PNG, MPEG, GIF and Flash.

Shockwave, Flash & Authorware
Macromedia Shockwave, Flash and Authorware Players are the Web standard for entertaining, engaging, rich-media playback. Macromedia Web Players display content such as interactive multimedia product demos and training, e-merchandising applications and rich media multiuser games.

Real Networks RealPlayer
The RealMedia streaming file format allows you to listen to sound files or see video files over the net without having to wait for the whole file to download. Used for displaying highly compressed, streaming video and audio. RealPlayer Plus is much more obviously displayed, but look carefully and there is a link to the free Basic player.

Adobe Acrobat
Using the free Acrobat Reader software, available for Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX platforms, you can read and print the pages on your printer in a manner that accurately reproduces originally created material, including fonts, pictures, and illustrations, and reproduces them much more accurately than standard HTML Web pages can.

Windows Media Player
Microsoft Windows Media Player contains a set of audio media components that display news, information and entertainment in audio and video formats. Plays static and streaming MP3 files, among many others, including some proprietary Microsoft formats.

Microsoft Office Converters & Viewers
With the help of these converters and viewers from Microsoft, you can share your Microsoft Office files with people who have versions of Office applications different than your own, or even with people who don't have Microsoft Office at all.