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For the last several weeks, I’ve been taking an online class through private tutoring on Skype and using Google Documents (“Google Docs”). Last night as I prepared to review this past Saturday’s lesson and do my homework, I discovered to my chagrin that Google Docs would not open.

I tried multiple times to open it, then emailed my instructor to please re-send the document so I could do my assignment. Being a busy wife, mom of two teen girls, and a teacher of other students, she replied that she had already sent me the link to Google Docs and my homework was simply to write several sentences from what we’d already gone over on Saturday. 

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I don’t think that I clearly communicated what was happening here. I wasn’t just being lazy or careless about opening the doc, but some tech issue was stopping me from accessing the Google doc!

Later I discovered that for some reason, my laptop’s Firewall was not allowing me to open it. Then why had it allowed me to open it this past Saturday and the weeks prior to that? (It could have been the recent updates.)

My instructor said, “This is very strange. This has never happened before with any of my students.” This should have been a clue!

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