Pop-Up Blocker Issues:  

Well, first a bit if information

Pop-ups are good and bad
  • Good - the pop up on sites like grade speed it there to help with safety. It opens a new window so that it is harder to hack the site.
  • Bad - Most Pop-ups are bad and very anoiying they are parketing ploys to force unwanted items in your face. They can even be use to crash your computer
    • Therefore Pop-up blockers are your friends
Pop-Up blockers Settings can be found in your internet Explorer
You can simply turn off the pop-up block and be done with it. However then you have to deal with every pop-up people choose to throw at you.  
So the best thing to do is allow pop-ups from certain sites.  

To allow pop-ups from GradeSpeed in Internet Explorer

Select Pop-up blocker Settings

Enter the address that you want to allow pop-ups from

for GradeSpeed the address is
  • 192.168.1.235 - if you are on a district computer
  • 65.216.40.84 - if you are on a computer at home or not on our districts network

Then click "Add"

Then you can close the Settings Dialogue and you will be able to get "good" pop-ups from any site you have added  

If this does not cure the problem, you must have other pop-up blockers in your browser that you must either turn-off, or configure them to let pop-ups through from the same sites.

Other tool that contain pop-ups bloocker frequently are tool bars, such as Google tool bar or Yahoo tool bar.

The Google tool bar is Ok to have, but the Yahoo tool bar is a problem and should be removed using the Add/Remove programs pannel