Monday, 5 October 2015

Accessing E-Books

For those students who've been asking me about accessing e-books, please see the following info. If you try this and are still having problems please let me know.


Instructions on Clearing Your Browser Cache

To clear your browser cache please follow the below steps, if these don’t work first time then do it again but clear both Cache and Cookies. (Same steps as below)

Firefox
1.      On the toolbar click History à Clear Recent History.
2.      Select only ‘Cache’
3.      Click ‘Clear Now’
4.      Close all Firefox tabs & windows and reopen.

Chrome.
1.      Click the options (Top right of window, 3 horizontal lines)
2.      Select ‘Settings’
3.      Scroll down and click ‘Show advanced settings…’
4.      Click ‘Clear browsing data’
5.      From the dropdown select ‘the beginning of time’ (normally selected by default)
6.      Select only ‘Cached images and files’
7.      Click ‘Clear browsing history’
8.      Close all Chrome tabs & windows and reopen.

Internet Explorer
1.      IE 8: From the Tools menu choose Internet Options.
IE 9-11: In the upper right corner, click the small gear icon (to the right of the star icon) and choose Internet Options
2.      On the General tab, under Browsing history, click Delete.
3.      Un-check the Preserve Favourites website data box.
4.      Check the Temporary Internet files, Cookies, and History boxes.
5.      The Form data, Passwords, and inPrivate Filtering data boxes may be left un-checked. You can check them to delete this data if you so choose.
6.      Click Delete.
7.      When finished, click OK to return to your Internet Explorer window.
8.      Close all Internet Explorer windows and reopen.