The portal www.uninettunouniversity.net has been created in such a way as to offer maximum compatibility with the most commonly used systems available for students, teachers, tutors and any other possible users of the program. Tests have been conducted on the most common platforms (Mac OS, Windows, Linux) and on the principal browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera).

The code used conforms to the standards of W3C:

The hardware and software requirements are minimal and are generally fulfilled by a normal system designed for home use; the software used, which is distributed under different licence types but in any case is available free of charge, can be dowloaded from the sites of the respective companies that produce the software.In order to make the most of the multimedia contents present and of the tutoring online services, it is necessary:

• to have a connection to the Internet. The minimum configuration consists of a PSTN connection (otherwise known as a telephone connection at 56Kbps) but for optimum use an ADSL connection is suggested, which becomes indispensable for videoconference tutoring.

• to have installed on one's own systemone of the principal browsers available, for example: Internet Explorer 6.0 (available at the following address: http://www.microsoft.com/ie/default.asp), Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or superior (available at the following address: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/central/), Opera (available at the following address: http://www.opera.com/download/).

• to have installed on one's own system the software Windows Media Player version 7.0 or superior which allows one to view the video lessons. The software is available free for downloading at the following address: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.mspx. On the Linux platform it is possibile to access films in streaming by installing the proper codec on one's own mutimedia player of choice.
  In order to use video-indexing menu with Firefox, install WMV Firefox Plugin released by Microsoft - Port25

• to have installed on one's own system the software Adobe Acrobat Reader version 6.0 or superior in order to view materials in pdf format. This software is available free of charge at the following address: http://www.adobe.it/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

• to have installed on one's own system Java runtime in order to view the conceptual map of the course. This software is available free of charge at the following address: http://www.java.com/
  
   
• IMPORTANT NOTICE : Window Media Player configuration for firewalled/proxyed network's client:
  
  ASF streaming | UDP
  - Out: TCP port 1755
  - Out: UDP port 1755
  - In: UDP ports between 1024 and 5000
  ASF streaming | TCP
  - In/Out: TCP port 1755
  ASF streaming | HTTP
  - In/Out: TCP port 80
  
  Detailed information available on Microsoft pages
• Internet Explorer 7 / Windows Vista: launch Internet Explorer, then Tools -> Internet Options-> Protection, set protection level to "Medium";.restart Internet Explorer.
• Windows Media Player: Launch Windows Media Player, than Tools -> Options -> Network. In the "MMS protocols" list, check "HTTP" only; remove flags from "RTSP/UDP" e "RTSP/TCP"
  
   
• In order to configure UNINETTUNO email system for students a how-to guide is available