I use gateportal and it lets me log into NGU for like 2 minutes and then kicks me off.

Make sure you have the "remember me" box checked when you login. this happened to me all the time and clicking the box fixed everything

While I understand the frustration that comes with teacher's abilities to monitor everything you do, and prevent you from doing anything unrelated to the subject matter, you have to admit it is a great system.

With the ability to access computers at school, we are faced with quite a few chances to be distracted in class. We are still at school to learn, and therefore I think teachers should have the ability to control their students computers. I myself am tempted to log into NGU everytime I am at a school computer. Some people can resist the urge to surf the web during class, and others cannot.

It would be nice if our teachers could trust us to be responsible on the internet, but in all actuality, we all know that, whether it be you or someone else, people would be doing things that they should not be, and completely ignoring their teachers, and therefore learning nothing.