General Technical Requirements
General technical requirements for running CEM assessments
Early years, primary and secondary monitoring systems
Our online assessments are designed to be delivered either through your web browser, when you have a stable internet connection, or using a standalone downloadable non-web application, if your internet connection is low-speed or less reliable.
The online assessments are delivered using HTML5, which is supported by most modern web browsers. These browsers can be run on a desktop or laptop PC and Apple computers running Windows, Linux or MacOS operating systems.
It is important that you have the latest stable version of your chosen browser installed on your computers. A list of the web browsers we recommend is shown in the table below:
|
Operating system |
Recommended |
Supported |
Not supported |
Notes |
|
Windows |
Chrome |
Firefox |
Edge (Older version 2015-2019) |
|
|
MacOS |
Safari |
Firefox |
Any other browser |
We only support High Sierra onwards. We would recommend using Web only or updating MacOS version if pre-High Sierra. Please refer to the user guide for using Catalina+. |
|
Linux |
Chrome |
Firefox |
Midori |
Currently offline application is not available for Linux |
|
Devices |
Recommended |
Supported |
Not supported |
Notes |
|
|
Desktop PC |
Chromebook |
iPAD |
Elements of the assessment such as the pop up keyboard, touch functionality and saves options are not compatible with iOS and Android devices. This also applies to older devices. |
Recommended assessment appears and works in its optimum state
Supported assessment can be completed and results files returned to CEM but visual and audio quality of assessment may be affected
Not supported assessment should NOT be attempted on these browser/computer set-ups as assessment results may not be accurate or results may be lost
We advise that you carry out a test run of your assessment on your particular computer and web browser set-up before assessing your pupils.
Firewall setup
In order to allow assessment data to pass securely from your school to CEM you will need to ensure that our web addresses are allowed (whitelisted) by any network firewall you have in place. The manager of your computer network should be able to help with this. The following websites will need to be included:
- http://assessment.cem.org
- https://assessments.cem.org
- https://css.cemcentre.org/
- https://primary.cemcentre.org
- https://plus.cem.org
- https://d3m7mkbasu2sda.cloudfront.net
- https://d3oulq9japayi2.cloudfront.net
- https://d2txkpqrtekcmg.cloudfront.net
- https://d32t7uq82nsxnb.cloudfront.net
- https://cem.cambridge.org
- https://cem-analytics.cambridge.org
- https://order.cambridge.org
- https://cambridgecloudflare.cloudflareaccess.com
- https://visualisations.cem.org
- https://wellbeing.cambridge.org
- https://rplogs.cem.org
Other requirements
You will require a sound-enabled computer to run our early years and primary assessments, and for our InCAS and Cambridge Primary Insight products we recommend a pair of headphones for each set-up.