Problems Writing Comments?

Some students tell me that they are unable to leave comments on blog posts. They get a message saying something like: "You don't have access to this service. Contact your administrator."

This seems odd, but I think I may have a solution for you, courtesy of Emma Hamilton:

1. Log out of your MUN mail account (or log out of any MUN account, such as the one you use to get into BrightSpace). Basically, make sure that you're not logged into anything connected to MUN!
2. Sign into your Google account.
3. Go to my blog: https://clarkross.blogspot.com/
4. Go to the bottom of any post, and click the "comments" link; it tells you how many comments thete have been on that blog post, so it might say "6 comments," or any other number. That's what you click. Do not click the little mail icon next to the "comments" link; clicking on this icon lets you E-mail the blog post to someone, but that's not what we want.
5. That should take you to the page where you write you comment.
   It should say something like: Post a Comment On: → Music Composition Weblog ←

Please let me know if that worked.

If it didn't work, drop by my office and we'll try to figure it out.

My guess is that the cause of the problem is MUN's firewall, which prevents you from accessing potentially problematic websites. For some reason, attempting to leave a Blogger comment triggers this firewall.

Thank you, Emma!

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UPDATE: This works!