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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand how DCPS can prevent students from logging in from abroad.

You can just use a good VPN and you're into Canvas.
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You can see VPN connections from outside the country.[/quote]

No you can’t, that’s the entire point.

You connect to a computer in the Us. That computer connects to DCPS. [/quote]

At my org, we see them. We constantly monitor them. We block them. But ok.[/quote]

I'm not sure that you have the technical background to understand what you're claiming.

When organizations say they "block VPNs", that typically means they block OUTGOING CONNECTIONS TO VPNS OVER THEIR WIFI, not that they are blocking incoming traffic to public resources like Web sites which happens to come from a VPN IP address.  It's trivial for an organization to block people on their local WIFI network from connecting to a VPN service.  When my kid was in DCPS, they had not yet figured out how to do that (students used VPNs to get around social media site blocks at high schools), but it's not difficult.

Thats an entirely different task than having a firewall in front of your Web server with rules to block incoming traffic to the Web server from the literally millions of VPN IP addresses public and private throughout the world.  Unlike traffic TO A VPN service over local WIFI, there are not spefic ports or protocols to check on inbound traffic to your Website that originates from a VPN.  It would just be a different remote host IP address over the same port/protocol as your normal traffic.  You would need to know that one particular DC-geolocated IP address is an Express VPN user who is connecting from Spain to an express VNP server in DC and from that DC IP address to your Web server.  I doubt your organization is doing that.  If they are, then they piss off a lot of people like me who ARE PHYSICALLY IN DC who use Express VPN to connect to your servers from the exact same DC IP address for reasons of privacy/security.[/quote]

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