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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 blackboard.purdue.edu since many features in Blackboard Vista use pop-ups. To make sure you have pop-ups allowed, 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 Vista provides a brief discussion of them.

Netscape

In Netscape when you log into Vista, you may see a pop-up window check telling you that Blackboard Vista takes advantage of pop-up windows.

Netscape popup warning

You may also see an allow pop-ups icon in the lower right corner of the Netscape window that looks like an exclamation mark inside a yellow star.

Netscape popup notification icon

Click this allow pop-ups icon. The address, blackboard.purdue.edu, should already be filled in. Click Add. Click OK to close this window.

To check your pop-up settings manually:

  1. Open Netscape and click Edit > Preferences.
  2. Expand the Privacy & Security section on the left and click Popup Windows underneath.
  3. Next to Block Unrequested Popup Windows, click the Allowed Sites button.
  4. Make sure blackboard.purdue.edu is in the allowed sites list. If it is not:
  5. Enter blackboard.purdue.edu in the Allow popups from the following web sites box.
  6. Click the Add button.
  7. Click OK and then OK to go back to the Netscape main window.