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help and advice

Help with downloads

Most of the ictopus downloadable resource documents are PDF files.
Where a resource contains more than one file the download is a ZIP file (a compressed archive containing two or more files).

The way in which the View now and Download facilities work depends upon your system.

PDF files

View now should open a PDF document but this will happen only if you have installed an Adobe Reader plugin in your browser. If no plugin is installed your browser will probably try to download the file.
(A simple way to find out if your browser will display PDF files is to drag a PDF into a browser window.)

Download should allow you to download the file to a location of your choice on your computer.

If you do not have Adobe Reader you can download it from the Adobe website

ZIP files

View now may open a ZIP archive or offer to download the file, depending upon your system, browser etc.

Download should allow you to download the file to a location of your choice on your computer.

To unzip a ZIP archive you need a utility. If you do not have one, do a web search to find one that matches your requirements.

Not receiving mailings?

If you have registered but are not receiving our mailings please try the following strategies.

1. Log in – select ‘my details’ to the right of the page and check that your email address has been entered correctly (we have about 50 registrations with faulty email addresses). Check too that all three boxes at the bottom of the page are ticked.

2. Add the address info@ictopus.org.uk to your contact list. This should mean that the spam filter will let it through OK.

3. Take a look in your spam or junk mail box. If your internet service provider is categorising ictopus mailings as spam you can usually correct this for the future by clicking a button labelled ‘this is not spam’ or something similar.

If your details are OK and there are no messages in your junk mail do please get in touch using ‘contact us’ to the right of the page and we will try to find out what the problem is.

Using You Tube in school

Many schools and LA servers block access to You Tube because of the risk that children might be exposed to unsuitable materials. The best way round this is to download the videos at home. Mike Trodd, at Cecil Road Primary school, has written an easy to use guide on how to download YouTube videos using RealPlayer which can be found at the link below. Once downloaded, videos can be put onto pen drives and taken into school where they can either be re-imported into RealPlayer or inserted straight into SMART Notebook (version 9.5 or later) or ActivePrimary.
You Tube Download Guide

An alternative quick solution

Go to the Download You Tube Video website

1 Copy the url of the YouTube video
2 Paste it into the website box
3 Click download
4 Rename this video, right click on the file and type in a new name with .flv at the end.

This will play in Windows media player.