<div dir="ltr">From their website:<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The free educator version of </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Epic</em><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> is for use in the classroom or school library between 6am-4pm Monday through Friday. For use at home, students should be using the home version of </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Epic</em><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">. This is due to our Terms of Service and our contracts with publishers.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">In order for students to access </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Epic</em><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> at home, a parent can purchase a subscription of </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Epic</em><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> for home and family use. Parents can try </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Epic</em><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> free for 30 days, and if they decide to subscribe, </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Epic</em><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> costs only $7.99/month (after the first free month) for access to </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Epic</em><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">'s full library of thousands of titles. </span></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I suspect this means they "geo-fence" access, controlling it by only allowing that free access from the network connections of the school.</div><div><br></div><div>However, they have an "Enable Home Access" button that lets teachers invite parents to use a "free 30-day trial", which might be useful in this situation. I don't know if that means the parent has to provide a credit card to sign up, but it wouldn't surprise me.</div><div><br></div><div><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font size="2">Butch Wilson</font></span><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font size="2">Technology Director</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font size="2">Christopher #99 School District</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><div style="font-size:small"><font size="2">618-724-2631 (Elementary)</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font size="2">(618) 724-9461 (High School)</font></div></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font size="1">MCSE/MCSA/Security+/</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font size="1">Google Education Trainer</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font size="1">Google Certified Associate - G Suite Administrator</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><img src="https://docs.google.com/a/ltc6.org/uc?id=0B1FoLRTCHkrRWDVhVnM3ZGV1N0k&export=download" width="200" height="82" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 8:34 AM Dekorsi, Suzanne via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Funny- I was just looking up that exact thing. 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