Technical Specifications
Browser Specifications
Great Minds® products are fully supported on the last two stable versions of the following browsers. Select your browser below for instructions on updating to the latest version.
⚠️ If you are using Google Chrome and are unable to download files from Great Minds, navigate to chrome://settings/content/automaticDownloads and verify the following settings:
- Sites can ask to automatically download multiple files is enabled.
- Add the site URL digital.greatminds.org under Allowed to automatically download multiple files.
If you've verified the above settings are correct and are still having issues downloading files, please contact our support team for assistance.
Device and Operating System Specifications
Our digital platform is optimized on laptops and desktop computers with a minimum of:
- 1 GB RAM and 2 GHz processor
- Broadband internet connection
Great Minds products do not have native mobile apps and are not designed for mobile phone use.
iPad Compatibility
Great Minds digital products are iPad compatible. We recommend accessing our products using the latest stable iPadOS version (or one version prior) with Chrome or Safari. For an optimal learning experience, we recommend that students use a full-size iPad in landscape orientation. While our products can be accessed from older iPadOS versions and other browsers, these are not supported.
Student Device Requirements
Great Minds has two methods for students to complete and submit assigned PDFs:
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Complete Online: Students can use our in-browser PDF annotation and assignment submission tool. (No file downloads or uploads are required.)
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File Upload: Students can download the assigned file, complete it offline or locally on their device, and then upload the completed file. (The device must be able to complete fillable PDFs using a PDF editor or browser plugin.)
Keyboard Settings
We recommend "U.S. English" as the assigned language setting on hardware and software keyboards for an optimal experience with digital interactives.
Firewall Safelist
District IT admins should allowlist the following domains to their email and web proxy servers. If you prefer to allowlist specific domains instead of root domains, subdomains are listed below under our root domain (*.greatminds.org).
- *.greatminds.org (root domain)
- cms.greatminds.org
- cdn.digital.greatminds.org.s3.amazonaws.com/*
- digital.greatminds.org
- digitalsupport.greatminds.org
- 3454910t.greatminds.org
- learnosity.com
- googleapis.com
- google-analytics.com
- greatminds-sso.read.inkling.com
- www.didax.com/math/virtual-manipulatives.html
- fast.wistia.net
- wistia.com
- greatminds-org.mail.protection.outlook.com
- e.issuu.com/
- pendo.io
- geogebra.org
- cdn.jsdelivr.net
- prod-dp-cms-api.s3.amazonaws.com/*
- prod-dp-digital-lessons-lambda-slide-thumbnails.s3.amazonaws.com/*
- prod-dp-digital-lessons-authoring-backend-media.s3.amazonaws.com/*
- prod-dp-digital-lessons-lambda-slide-screenshot-preview.s3.amazonaws.com/*
- gmpbc.link
- eurmath.link
- eurekamath.link
- phdsci.link
- phdscience.link
- witeng.link
- witandwisdom.link
- sfapi.formstack.io
- greatmindsupdates.com
- configuration.speechstream.net
- greatmindsorg.sharepoint.com
IP Addresses
To receive email communications from Great Minds, IT administrators should allowlist the following IP address(es):- 3.233.10.83
AWS Regions
Great Minds utilizes the below AWS regions to provide services. IT administrators should allow access to these regions:
- us-west-1
- us-west-2
- us-east-1
- us-east-2
Notes:
- For a list of additional domains specific to PhD Science, see PhD Science Domains and Video URLs for IT Administrators.
- To allow access to our company website (greatminds.org), IT administrators need to include "cdn2.hubspot.net" in their allowed sites list.