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Documentation

To access EduCat classes or content you will need:

• The latest or one version earlier of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer, or Opera browsers
• Respondus lockdown browser from http://it.nmu.edu/downloads may be needed for taking quizzes and exams that require using the Respondus lockdown browser. As of Feb, 2019 the Respondus lockdown browser is only available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX (and iOS on an Apple iPad if the instructor changed a setting to allow it). For more up to date and detailed system requirements see Repsondus' Lockdown browser system requirements page. 
• Software or a way to view Microsoft Powerpoint PPT, PPS, PPTX and PPSX files. You could use your NMU G Suite account and view them after they were saved to your Google Drive.

Depending on your instructor's course video content, this software may or may not be needed for playing videos.

• Adobe Flash from https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
• Microsoft Silverlight from https://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/
• VLC Player from https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

You might also need: 

• Cisco AnyConnect from  http://it.nmu.edu/downloads