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 9 th grader at NWCTA would be:

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!!!

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