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 6 or 7 digit student number for your

password

Your Interact Username

Your First Name + Middle Initial + Last Initial + Grade + School Code (409)

Roger Allen Smith, a 9th grader at East CTA would be:

Your Email Address

RogerAS9409@solia.ccsd.netThis 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.

PasswordIt is a good idea that you change your

password since your log-on password is your student number.

Your teacher must have a copy of your password in the event that you forget it. There is no other system in place to get

a lost password to you.

PasswordIf 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 passwordFollow instructions in

password panel

Email your Password to Your Teacher

Click on NEWEnter subject as My password Enter teacher interact email

address 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!!!

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