Pedagogue Help

Technical Requirements

To Use Pedagogue

To use Pedagogue, you will need:

• Adobe Flash Player 8 or above (see 'Software Requirements' below for more information)
• A JavaScript enabled browser on your computer
• An Internet connection

To Run Content Created Using Pedagogue

To run the content created using Pedagogue, you will need:

Windows:

• 450 MHz Intel Pentium II processor (or equivalent) and later 128 MB RAM

Macintosh:

• 500MHz PowerPC G3 and later 128 MB RAM

Also recommended are:

• Desktop speakers / headphones
• A monitor which displays 32 bit colour at a minimum resolution of 800 x 600 or above

Software Requirements

Adobe Flash Player

Pedagogue preview and exported content requires the Adobe Flash Player 8 or upwards to run. If you do not already have it, you can get the latest version here:

• Get the latest version of Flash Player

For further information about the minimum system requirements for Flash, you can find it here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs (this link will open in a new browser window).

Handling Zip Files

Content exported from Pedagogue will be downloaded in the form of zip files. Though most modern computers come with software to handle zip files included, you may need to use third party software to open them.

Opening Zip files on a PC

Zip files can be opened without installing any software on most modern versions of Windows.

But if the zip files you've downloaded from the course won't open, you may need to install a program to handle zip files such as WinZip. An evaluation copy of WinZip can be downloaded for free from http://www.winzip.com (this link will open in a new browser window).

After you have installed WinZip, double click on a zip file to open it.

If, for any reason, you do not want to use WinZip, there are many other programs available on the Internet which handle zip files. A good place to start looking is http://www.download.com (this link will open in a new browser window).

Opening Zip Files on a Mac

Zip files can be opened without installing any software on most modern versions of Mac OSX.

But if the zip files you've downloaded from the course won't open, you may need to install a program to handle zip files such as StuffIt Expander. StuffIt Expander can be downloaded for free from http://www.stuffit.com/mac/index.html (this link will open in a new browser window).

After you have installed StuffIt, double click on a zip file to open it.

If, for any reason, you do not want to use StuffIt Expander, there are many other programs available on the internet which handle zip files.

Opening Zip Files on a Linux computer

A popular zip file solution on Linux is Info-ZIP. This can be downloaded from: http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html#Linux (this link will open in a new browser window).