Setting up Your Interact Account BY RA Routsong What is an Interact Account Interact is the CCSD on-line communication system. Administrators, Teachers, Support Staff, and Students use interact to: Collaborate on various projects Share ideas with colleagues Get help when needed What can Interact do for YOU! Provide you with an email address You can send email to people outside of the CCSD system You can receive email from outside the CCSD system You can communicate with your teachers and fellow students The system can also be used to send and receive graded projects between students and teachers In Addition… You will be able to collaborate on the same document with your classmates or group mates. You will have access to your schoolwork stored on Interact from anywhere. Netiquette Rules When replying to a message: Use good manners. Write every message as if your parents, teachers, and friends will read it. Classroom writing rules apply; reread, edit, and check spelling before sending. Make messages short. Always fill in the Subject: line. Sign your message with your first name only. To Log onto Interact First Class Icon on Desktop If no Icon Go to Start Go to Programs Click on First Class Enter your 6 or 7 digit student number for your name Enter your First Name Initial In Uppercase then your Last Name Initial in lowercase then your student number Your Interact Username Your First Name + Middle Initial + Last Initial + Grade + School Code (548) Roger Allen Smith, a 9th grader at NWCTA would be: Your Email Address RogerAS9548@solia.ccsd.net This would be the address that anyone outside the Interact system would use to communicate with Roger using his Interact email account. The address is not case sensitive. Password It is a good idea that you change your password since your log-on password is your student number. Mrs. Yates must have a copy of your password in the event that you forget it. Password If you change your password and do not notify your instructor, it is a serious infraction of the rules. To change Login Password Click on Collaborate Click on change password Follow instructions in password panel Email your Password to Your Librarian Click on NEW Enter subject as password Send TO: Rachel Yates followed with the ENTER key In the body of the email enter your new password Click on send REMEMBER Anything you put on line never goes away. Make sure that any emails you send contain only information that would not embarrass you if your teachers, parents, grandparents, and friends were to read them. Email is NOT PRIVATE!!! The End