Browsers

CAST works with releases of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari at the time of writing this (late 2016) but the browser-based version of CAST will stop working in all browsers at some time in the future. We therefore recommend that CAST is downloaded and the stand-alone version of CAST is used instead.

A recent version of Java is needed to display the interactive diagrams in CAST. When a CAST e-book is started, a check is made for whether Java is installed; if your computer fails the Java check, the "full" versions of pages will not be displayed. (You may however still be able to browse the summary and video versions of pages if the e-book has them.

(Unfortunately Java cannot be installed on tablet computers so the interactive diagrams cannot be used on them.)

Alternative versions of pages

In some of the pages within the CAST e-books, you will see a small triangle on the top right. This is a menu from which you can dispay alternative versions of the same page -- perhaps with a biological, business or climatic example.

For lecturers

Printing

Customised and translated e-books