Digital Learning Commons

Apex Learning - Online Course Provider

Apex provides both online courses and two teaching resources: ClassTools and Beyond Books.

Provider Resources
Web Browsers
Recommended
  • Internet Explorer (Win)
  • Internet Explorer (Win) 6.0+
  • Mozilla Firefox (Win/Mac/Linux) 2.0
  • Safari (Mac) 2.0+
Browser Plugins
Recommended
  • Adobe (Macromedia) Flash Player (Win/Mac) 9.0
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader (Win/Mac) 8.0
  • AlternaTIFF (Win) 1.76
  • Sun Java (Win/Mac) 1.6
Course-Related Software
Recommended
  • Word Processor, such as Word (Win/Mac/Linux)
Not Supported
Note: these products may work, but the provider does not support them.
  • AOL Browser
  • Internet Explorer 5.1.6 for Macintosh OS 9
  • Netscape 6.0
  • The Opera browser has rendering anomalies that users may find unacceptable.
  • Safari 1.0
  • MSN Browser
  • SBC Yahoo!
  • Some activities within AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, and AP Statistics may not function properly with Netscape 7.
Settings
  • Cookies: Must be enabled
  • Javascript: Must be enabled
  • Pop-ups: Must be enabled
Hardware
  • Sound card and speakers or headphones
  • Microphone required for foreign language courses
  • Support for 1024×768 pixel resolution
  • Support for 256-bit color
  • Access to a printer
  • Access to a fax machine (ClassTools Virtual only)
Bandwidth
  • 20 Kbps per simultaneous user
Network Address Range(s)
  • 63.251.169.0-254
  • apexvs.com
  • apexlearning.com
  • correlation.edgate.com
  • http.vitalstreamcdn.com
  • forums.apexlearning.com
  • Or, 63.251.169.64 – 63.251.169.127 (CIDR notation: 63.251.169.64/26)
  • Any content from the following domains may be cached locally, but cached copies should be refreshed frequently (at least weekly):
    • media.apexlearning.com
    • assets.apexlearning.com
    • acecontent.apexlearning.com
  • Any content from the following domains must not be cached:
    • apexvs.com
    • courses.apexlearning.com
  • Make sure that support@apexlearning.com is whitelisted in your spam system.
Port(s)
  • 80 (for HTTP traffic from our Web servers and TCP outbound traffic used by Elluminate servers)
  • 443 (for SSL traffic from our secure Web servers)