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My password does not work when I am on my home computer, although it did work when I accessed the class on campus.

If your username and password are working on certain computers but not in others, chances are the computer is not configured properly to accept cookies, or that there is a problem with the connection.  Do this:

  • Make sure you are using the latest version of your preferred browser.  Click here for links to these programs.
     
  • Make sure that your browser is set to accept cookies.  The software used in our online courses depends on cookies for authentication and session management. 
    Click here for instructions on how to enable cookies in your browser
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  • If you have an Internet Security suite installed on your computer (such as McAfee Personal Firewall® or Norton Internet Security®), make sure that it is configured to allow cookies from the server you are connecting to.  If in doubt, disable the program and see if you can log on to the class.
     
  • Make sure you are not typing in the address of an OIS module directly onto the browser's address bar.  Access the class web site first and then click on the links provided. 
     
  • If you use an external email service and received an email from your instructor with the address for the course, clicking on that address from your email may not actually work if the email provider is tracking where you click.  It may look like you are on a page on the CSTL server, but it is actually a copy of the page being displayed through the email service.  This recently started happening to students using Hotmail® accounts.  Solution: make sure that the class URL on the address bar starts with "http://cstl-xxx.semo.edu"or "http://online.semo.edu" or "http://ustudies.semo.edu" before you attempt to log on.  If it shows something else, copy the link and paste it into the address bar yourself, then hit enter.

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