Prepare Your Computer

Before you Begin...

It is important to get your computer ready to view all of the materials available in your courses.  The programs below may be required to properly load all of the course materials.

• Please note that after downloading these programs, you will have to install them on your computer.

Enable Pop-ups 

• It is important to enable pop-ups for Canvas. Click here Links to an external site. for instructions on how to do this.

Downloads for PC & Mac

• Web Browser: Click here Links to an external site. to download or upgrade to the latest version of Firefox, our recommended browser for Canvas
• Adobe Flash Player: Click here Links to an external site. to download or upgrade (for activities/videos)
• Adobe Shockwave Player: Click here Links to an external site. to download or upgrade (for activities/videos)
• Adobe Reader: Click here Links to an external site. to download or upgrade (to read PDF documents)
• Quicktime: Click here Links to an external site. to download or upgrade the free player (for videos)
• Silverlight: Click here Links to an external site. to download or upgrade Microsoft's version of flash (for activities/videos)
• VLC Media Player: Click here Links to an external site. to download or upgrade (for videos, this program plays just about everything)

Web Tools

• PDF to Word: Click here Links to an external site. for a website to convert PDF Documents to Word Documents and vice versa

Downloads for just PC

• Windows Media Plugin for Firefox: Click here Links to an external site. to download this Windows plugin (for media files)

Downloads for just Mac

• Flip4Mac: Click here Links to an external site. to download this program that lets you play Windows Media Files with Quicktime
• Adobe Reader Firefox Plugin: Click here Links to an external site. for a PDF Plugin for Firefox on Mac OS X (to get PDFs to open properly from Firefox)