Help Files

Technical Requirements

To run Work Experience Online you will need:

Windows:

• Windows 98 or above
• 450 MHz Intel Pentium II processor (or equivalent) and later 128 MB RAM.

Macintosh:

• Mac OSX or above
• 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

Work Experience Online requires the Adobe Flash Player 7 or upwards to run. If you do not already have it, you can install it here:

• Flash Player for Windows 98, XP and Vista / Mac OSX and above (This link will open in a new browser window)

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

Some resources in the Learning Objects are downloaded from Work Experience Online 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).