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Plug-ins and Viewers

Browsers use supplementary software called plug-ins to display special types of Web documents. If you try to open a special file types that requires one of these plug-ins and the plug-in is not installed, you may see a message indicating your browser can't handle that type of file.

Viewers are software that allow you to view Microsoft Office documents even if you do not have Microsoft Office installed on your computer.

Here are links to download and install common plug-ins, players, and viewers if you find that you need them in one of your BlackBoard courses.  These downloads are free.

  Get acrobat reader graphic Adobe Acrobat Reader
 
  Macromedia Shockwave Plug-in
 
  Macromedia Flash Plug-in
 
  Apple QuickTime player
 
  Real Player
 
  Windows Media Player 7
  Microsoft Excel 2000/97 Viewer
  Microsoft Word 2000/97 Viewer 
  Microsoft PowerPoint 2000/97 Viewer