Setting up Your Interact Account

1. Setting up Your Interact Account BY RA Routsong

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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

7. Your Interact Username • Your First Name + Middle Initial + Last Initial + Grade + School Code (548) • Roger Allen Smith, a 9th grader at NWCTA would be: RogerAS9548

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Password • If you change your password and do not notify your instructor, it is a serious infraction of the rules.

11. To change Login Password • Click on Collaborate • Click on change password • Follow instructions in password panel

12. 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

13. 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!!!

14. The End Happy Communicating