Blackboard™ Learn Release 9.0 Service Pack 5 (9.0.613.0) is tested with a variety of technologies.
Certified: fully tested and supported. Compatible: partially tested but should function properly. Provisional: future technologies considered supported by Blackboard Support. Unsupported: either impossible or not tested.
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Internet Explorer® 8
Internet Explorer 7
Firefox 3.6
Firefox 3.5
Windows® XP (32-bit)
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Windows Vista® (32-bit)
Certified
Compatible
Certified
Compatible
Windows Vista (64-bit)
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Windows 7 (32-bit)
Certified
Unsupported
Certified
Compatible
Windows 7 (64-bit)
Compatible
Unsupported
Compatible
Compatible
Apple® Mac OS® Operating System
Safari® 5.0
Safari 4.0
Firefox 3.6
Firefox 3.5
Mac OSX 10.5 "Leopard®"
Certified
Compatible
Certified
Compatible
Mac OSX 10.6 "Snow Leopard®"
Certified
Compatible
Certified
Compatible
Blackboard strives to make all its products as accessible as possible. JAWS for Windows 10 and 11 were used during accessibility testing of Service Pack 5
Sun Java™ Runtime Environment 5 (JRE™ 5) is no longer supported. It may continue to work but the latest version of Java 6 is the recommended for all users.
Deprecations
Safari 3.2
Not supported: Internet Explorer 5 and 6; Firefox 1.x and 2.0; Safari 2.0, and 3.x; Google Chrome (any version)
Internet Explorer 8 is only supported in Standards Mode. Some known issues can be resolved by using Compatibility Mode (emulates IE7 behavior).