Will Linux Lite work with university software?

[Dookus]

You may be lucky.

http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com.au/2010...nline.html

Take your Laptop to the School and see if they will let you access what you need to with your laptop, it seems Blackboard works with Firefox in Linux, with warnings, which are because Linux is detected (Read the above article thoroughly and the comments as there are ways to disable the warning messages)

Good luck.