What domains does my school district need to whitelist?

Share this list with your IT department to allow Forward Education content through your district's web filter.

Many school districts block domains for student safety. Those filters can also stop lesson videos, coding tutorials and interactive content from loading — whether you are using the Climate Action Kit, the SmartFarm Kit or the Learning Platform. Whitelisting the domains below restores full functionality.

Forward Education services

• forwardedu.com — Forward Education website
• learn.forwardedu.com — the Learning Environment
• help.forwardedu.com — this knowledge base

Lessons and coding tutorials

• makecode.microbit.org — MakeCode, where students write their code
• microbit.org — micro:bit coding tutorials
• github.com — coding tutorial backend, including the github.com/Forward-Education, github.com/climate-action-kits, github.com/microsoft and github.com/bbcmicrobit projects
• microsoft.github.io — MakeCode backend
• gstatic.com — lesson backend

Lesson media and interactives

• youtube.com — lesson videos
• videopress.com — lesson videos
• genial.ly — lesson interactives

Platform hosting

• wp.com — Learning Environment platform (WordPress)
• *.wpenginepowered.com — platform hosting
• cloudflare.com — web hosting

Whitelist each domain including its subdomains (for example *.forwardedu.com) — most district filtering tools treat a bare domain entry this way by default.

Access is controlled by domain rather than by fixed IP address. If your district's firewall can only whitelist IP addresses, contact our support team and we will work through it with your IT department.