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Hi, Sorry to hear you're having difficulties signing up - you're quite correct that .ac.uk should be allowed. At present the signup page requires an email addr

by shimms 14y ago

Hi, Sorry to hear you're having difficulties signing up - you're quite correct that .ac.uk should be allowed. At present the signup page requires an email address that ends in '.edu' (or '.edu.*' for country specific edu emails) to qualify for the free plan. We're adding region specific exceptions (such as .ac.uk) as we come across them. The Cambridge users signed up for Lexim during the private beta period in which we had no restrictions on email addresses. I've flagged this as an issue with our development team, and it will be addressed within in the next 12 - 24 hours (it's currently just gone midnight on Monday morning here in Australia). In the interim if you'd still like to play with Lexim, feel free to shoot me your email address to my private email and I'll make sure you can get sorted on the free plan. Sorry again, appreciate your interest and feedback! Thanks, Michael

keithpeter 14y ago
I'll give it another go Monday evening UK time. While you are doing a support ticket for the email address filter, uk schools use sch.uk.
keithpeter 14y ago
ac.uk addresses are recognised now so I set a 'free forever' course up, added a YouTube video for students to see, created a couple of dummy students, and am now awaiting the confirmation emails for the dummy students so they know how to log on. The system accepts non ac.uk emails for students so I have used a gmail account, I hope this has not simply dropped into a black hole. I started with a blank course because I learn by randomly clicking around and working out how to add things. Others may like the 'sample content' course with one of everything. Some comments - Fresh bright and nice looking pages, younger students will like it. As soon as I can get a dummy student account activated, I'll have a look at it on my phone, which is how teenagers access Web content on their own time (PCs are strictly College things, office appliances) - Clicking on the YouTube button brings up a search box. There appears to be no place to put a direct link. I had to think of search terms to find my own YouTube videos! If there is a way of simply adding a 'share' link, can that be pointed out? - email validation for younger students may slow things down a bit, teenagers don't do email much now, and they all seem to have hotmail accounts which get blocked &c. Our own Moodle server allows us to simply create the accounts and then give the student a link, username and password. Has potential. PS Free forever because no member of staff can commit the institution to any kind of liability without a lot of form filling.

by shimms 14y ago

keithpeter 14y ago

I'll give it another go Monday evening UK time. While you are doing a support ticket for the email address filter, uk schools use sch.uk.

keithpeter 14y ago

ac.uk addresses are recognised now so I set a 'free forever' course up, added a YouTube video for students to see, created a couple of dummy students, and am now awaiting the confirmation emails for the dummy students so they know how to log on. The system accepts non ac.uk emails for students so I have used a gmail account, I hope this has not simply dropped into a black hole. I started with a blank course because I learn by randomly clicking around and working out how to add things. Others may like the 'sample content' course with one of everything. Some comments - Fresh bright and nice looking pages, younger students will like it. As soon as I can get a dummy student account activated, I'll have a look at it on my phone, which is how teenagers access Web content on their own time (PCs are strictly College things, office appliances) - Clicking on the YouTube button brings up a search box. There appears to be no place to put a direct link. I had to think of search terms to find my own YouTube videos! If there is a way of simply adding a 'share' link, can that be pointed out? - email validation for younger students may slow things down a bit, teenagers don't do email much now, and they all seem to have hotmail accounts which get blocked &c. Our own Moodle server allows us to simply create the accounts and then give the student a link, username and password. Has potential. PS Free forever because no member of staff can commit the institution to any kind of liability without a lot of form filling.