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Configure Pop-Up Blockers

The most current versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape and Firefox contain built in pop-up blockers. You will need to configure your browser to allow pop-ups from ecourses.purdue.edu since many features in WebCT use pop-ups. To make sure you have pop-ups allowed for WebCT, follow the steps at the bottom of the page to manually check your pop-up settings.

Be aware there are other, pop-up blockers from third party vendors and Internet Service Providers. They are too numerous to document all of them but WebCT provides a brief discussion of them.

Internet Explorer

In Internet Explorer when you log into WebCT, you may see the Information Bar which is a pale yellow bar just above the web page content and below the toolbars. This bar may warn you that a pop-up has been blocked.

IE Info Bar

Click on this bar and choose Always Allow Pop-ups from This Site to configure IE to allow pop-ups.

IE Allow popus

To check your pop-up settings manually, open Internet Explorer and click Tools > Internet Options.

Click the Privacy tab at the top of the window and then the Settings button at the bottom of the Pop-up Blocker section.

Make sure ecourses.purdue.edu is in the allowed sites list. If it is not:

Enter ecourses.purdue.edu in the Address of Web site to allow box.

Click the Add button.

Click Close and then OK to go back to the Internet Explorer main window.