Enabling Third Party Cookies

Summary

- enable cookies to fix issues with Canvas
- enable cookies on Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, and Brave

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Some Canvas and byui.edu features require thrid-party cookies to be enabled in order to function correctly. If you are having issues with MyMedia, links, videos, or anything else not loading properly in Canvas, try enabling third-party cookies. This can be done by following the steps below according to your browser.

Chrome

1. Click the menu icon (3 dots) in the top right then click "Settings" from the drop-down list.

Chrome menu

2. In the Privacy and Security section, click Third-party cookies.

Privacy and security settings

3. Select "Block third-party cookies in Incognito mode" or "Allow third-party cookies" to allow cookies all the time.

Cookie settings

4. Alternatively, you can allow third-party cookies only on certain websites, such as Canvas. To do this, leave "Block third-party cookies" selected and add byui.edu and byui.instructure.com.

Add websites

Safari

1. Open Safari and go to the left-hand corner and click on Safari -> Preferences from the drop down menu.

Safari menu

2. Navigate to the Privacy Tab and make sure "Prevent cross-site tracking" is unchecked.

Privacy settings

Edge

1. Click the menu icon (3 dots) in the top right then click "Settings" from the drop-down list.

Edge menu

2. Go to Cookies and site permissions then Manage and delete cookies and site data.

Cookies and site permissions

3. Turn off Block third-party cookies.

Cookies settings

Firefox

1. Go to byui.instructure.com 

2. At the left of the address bar, click the Fx89ShieldIcon shield icon.

3. Toggle off the Enhanced Tracking Protection switch Fx91ETPbluetoggle. This will automatically reload the page and enable third-party cookies.

Protection panel

Brave

1. Go to byui.instructure.com 

2. On the right of the address bar, click the Brave icon then toggle off Shields

toggle off

 


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Article ID: 14573
Created
Mon 3/4/24 11:33 AM
Modified
Mon 7/8/24 11:12 AM