If you're using Internet Explorer, go to Tools and then Internet Options and click on Privacy - put the slider to one notch above the bottom (as illustrated in the screenshot below) and all should be well. Changing this setting won't affect the security on your computer. (If the slider's already on Low or lower, it may be some other aspect of security or privacy that needs fixing to get you into the site.)
If re-setting the privacy slider doesn't solve the problem, remember that usernames and passwords are case-sensitive so make sure they're entered as you submitted them. It won't matter whether you're using a school or home system - the e-mail address submitted when registering was just for verification.
The setting needs to be lowered so that passwords can be recognised. Passwords are necessary on this site to allow you to use the resources with your students when you think it's best (rather than when they do).
If you can't change settings because you're on a school or college computer, other suggestions have included using Firefox or Google Chrome as a browser for this site - they don't have the privacy setting issues and the software for the former can be quickly downloaded from http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/.
If you have technical folk at school to help, I am told that one school managed to get the website to work in school without lowering any of the privacy settings. The network manager added http://s277881626.websitehome.co.uk/emporium as an exception in their internet filtering software (adding www.edexcelmaths.com doesn't have any effect because the website actually loads an iframe pointing to http://s277881626.websitehome.co.uk/emporium).
The above is the limit of my IT expertise at present, I'm afraid - but changing the settings has worked for many others who have had difficulties. You may, of course, need to involve your school or college IT people or accept that you can only access this site at home.
Let me know if any of this works - if not, I'll see if there's anything else that can be done. If you need to contact me, please remind me of your username if you haven't already done so.
Hi Graham,
ReplyDeleteIt is the iframe that is causing the issue for us. If we connect directly to http://s277881626.websitehome.co.uk/emporium then it seems to work fine.
Changing the internet filtering settings had no effect.
I would recommend either correcting your DNS record so that it points at the correct host or swapping the iframe for a simple redirect. Either way, recommending users abandon their privacy protection is not a reasonable or particularly clever idea.
Good luck with the site and i hope you solve the issue as it certainly isn't a problem that network managers can fix for you.
Regards,
Matt
Hi Matt,
DeleteI'll ask someone who understands what to do about correcting the DNS record.
I don't suggest abandoning the privacy protection, just lowering it. I don't know why Inernet Explorer seems to have this option whereas other browsers don't - are their already lowered? If it's so dangerous, why offer the option?
These are of course things I'll probably never learn the answer to - but I've had mine on Low for some time now and haven't yet had anything adverse happen.
Graham
I too have had trouble with loading the site in Internet Explorer. I hugely recommend using Google Chrome as a browser, if only for this site (frankly I recommend Chrome *anyway*). None of my team have had any problems accessing the site in chrome.
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