SMART lab browser, device, operating system and network recommendations
This section describes the web browsers, device requirements, operating systems and network capacity that ensure the best possible experience with SMART lab activities on hellosmart.com. as well as the websites that must be white listed before SMART lab activities on hellosmart.com will work correctly.
Web browser, device operating system recommendations and network recommendationsNote
When using SMART lab activities on hellosmart.com, students may check their website access at https://hellosmart.com/connection/check.html.
Web browser recommendationsGoogle Chrome 33 or above
Firefox 38 or above
Internet Explorer 11
Internet Explorer Edge
Device operating system recommendationsWindows 7 operating system or above
iOS 8 operating system or above
Android 4.4.2 operating system or above
Network recommendationsSMART lab activities on hellosmart.com are designed to keep network requirements as low as possible while still supporting rich collaboration. The network recommendation for Shout It Out! alone is 0.3 Mbps per device. A school that regularly uses other Web 2.0 tools should have enough network capacity to run SMART lab activities on hellosmart.com. If SMART lab activities on hellosmart.com are used in conjunction with other online resources, such as streaming media, greater network capacity could be required, depending on the other resources being used.
Website access requirementsTo ensure that all student-side SMART lab activities works correctly, add the following URLs to your network’s whitelist.
https://www.hellosmart.com
https://id.smarttech-prod.com
https://content.smarttech-prod.com
https://metric.smarttech-prod.com
https://google.com
https://google-analytics.com
https://www.gstatic.com (used by Google to load reCAPTCHA)
https://*.firebaseio.com
https://*.cloudfront.com