Content Plugins

If you include files in other formats on your course site, such as audio, multimedia, Portable Document Format (PDF), presentation, spreadsheet, video, or word processed files, you also should provide students with links to plugins they may need to access these files. Links to the most common are below.

Adobe Reader

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Browser Plug-ins

http://www.webct.com/tuneup/viewpage?name=tuneup_browser_tuneup_information#plugins

Excel Viewer (Windows)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1cd6acf9-ce06-4e1c-8dcf-f33f669dbc3a&DisplayLang=en

Flash Player

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

Flip4Mac and Windows Media Player

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/flip4mac.mspx

Microsoft Software Options for Students

http://www1.umn.edu/oit/utools/licensed/agreement-students/index.htm

Open XML File Format Converter for Mac

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx?pid=Mactopia_AddTools&fid=EDB6CD8F-832C-4123-8982-AC0C601EA0A7#viewer

PowerPoint Viewer 2007 (Windows)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en

QuickTime Player

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

RealPlayer

http://www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=rnwk

UTools (formerly Faculty Toolkit)

http://dmc.umn.edu/toolkit/index.shtml

Windows Media Player

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/download/download.aspx

Word Viewer (Windows)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3657ce88-7cfa-457a-9aec-f4f827f20cac&displaylang=en

Other

http://www1.umn.edu/adcs/software/

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