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Remove need to sign in for each/every use of Packet Tracer 7.2

Since Packet Tracer 7.2 has appeared - two issues have occurred

Every time a student in a class room logs into a computer, they have to log into PT. Reducing teaching time and adding admin load to frustrated teachers. Also - we are trying to work with orgs who wish to use PT for U13 students - we are having to encourage them to use a generic login and work around this new feature.

For Mac - this screen is now causing many WINE bottlers to crash. We have students and academies who use PT and now have to use a VM - which is slower and more resource intensive.

While we acknowledge that there is a desire from Cisco to record metrics. Can this not be accomplished anonymously. As you are now encouraging all academies to create workarounds and lose limited teaching time and irritate a considerable number of teachers.

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Andrew Smith shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →
Archived  ·  AdminSandra Ray (Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy) responded  · 

The Packet Tracer team has worked on the login process. They are trying to get PT to a place where users that are already logged into Cisco NetAcad will not have to login again. In addition, they have changed the process for Packet Tracer assessment so users will not have to login to Packet Tracer when doing a Packet Tracer assessment.

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  • David McDaniel commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have been "looking into this" for nearing 3 months. Is there any determination yet as to whether you are going to modify this behavior? It's very annoying.

  • Hendrik Schepkens commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree this is So annoying you cant even save your credentials and have to type in your full e-mail and password this is so old-school FFS!

  • Edmon Jiang commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree, the login window is really annoying.

  • Nunya D Biness commented  ·   ·  Report

    Get rid of this requirement. It is slowing everything down.

  • Greg Porter commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have to agree. Wouldn't it be better to simply have students - report their academy username rather than the full process of shibboleth authentication? Shibboleth can be kind of picky, i.e.with some browsers I can be logged into netacad yet when I go to access the curriculum on AWS it fails to pass thru my creditials and tells me I have to be logged in.

  • Tom commented  ·   ·  Report

    The perpetual login requirement is taking away from teaching and learning.
    Cisco should think about keeping it simple and understand that we're in an educational environment and not a business environment.

  • Tom Jones commented  ·   ·  Report

    Going back to 7.1 Hopefully we'll be told when this is "fixed"

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Tiresome - we have needed to create an alternate Cisco account for PT and post this on the wall in the classrooms - password included, to work our way around this. I am not going to share who/where we are, however - the login issue has become so painful that this is the most sensible way we can approach this.

  • Danny Darden commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree with removing the need to log in at every windows login. The solution here is that PT should use the %userprofiles% system variable or ~ in Ubuntu to store an XML document with the session information so that the metrics can persist in a users actual home folder.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    I find this login issue to be annoying and disruptive in the classroom where time is of the essences. I also find the new monochromatic ribbon a step back to 1985 when we did not have color monitors.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    got a 'locked out' student during lessons because of this (too many bad login attempts due to a keyboard language issue)
    can't even find how to unlock this student, hope it is a time based lock...
    ...three days later now: still locked
    I'm working with 18+ who are responsible themselves for this situation and consequences, but I can imagine younger students are not...

  • Aqeel Abbas commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes, this must be removed, its quite annoying and wastage of time causing lot of delays. And sometime you have Offline/without internet lab..!

  • Claude Roy commented  ·   ·  Report

    We have stopped using 7.2 because of this issue. I hope they stop asking for a user and password at each restart. It is very annoying when using a portables computer.

  • Mohd D commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just picked this up via social media - we were going to install 7.2, but learning about these issues is a shameful thing - very sad.

  • Colin Ellison commented  ·   ·  Report

    I've asked our technicians to hang fire on 7.2 because of this issue, and advised all of my students to use 7.1.1 instead.

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