If you are still having issues after going through all the resources below, please send an email to canvashelp@hawthornacademy.org
Please be descriptive in your email as to what issue you are having. If possible, please include screenshots of your issue.
New students enrolled for the 2026-2027 school year :
ffflllll000@hawthornstudent.org
First three letters of legal first name, five letters of legal last name, and three digits for tie breaker. If a duplicate email exists in Skyward, the three digit tie breaker will be 001, 002, etc.
New students are those who have never enrolled with Hawthorn Academy any time before the 2026-2027 school year. Passwords follow the same setup as below.
Returning students:
Usernames and passwords are different depending on the grade level of the student.
No changes were made to the student username from the previous school year.
Student accounts are created based on the legal name, not the nicknames or preferred names.
If a student has multiple first names or last names, only the "first" part of the first name or last name is used.
Student number (ID number) is now five digits. Four digit student ID numbers in Aspire are converted to five digits numbers in Skyward with a leading zero. Aspire student number 4321 is 04321 in Skyward.
2-3nd grade
username: firstnamexxxx@hawthornstudent.org
password: 12341234
(hint: xxxx = lunch/student ID)
4th grade to 5th grade
username: firstname.lastname@hawthornstudent.org
password: hawthorn0xxxx (0xxxx is the five digit student number in Skyward)
6th-9th grade both campuses
Username: firstname.lastname@hawthornstudent.org
Password: The default password is hawthorn0xxxx. If a student's lunch ID is 01234, the password will be hawthorn01234. After students login they will be prompted to create their own password.
We use SSO (single-sign-on) whenever possible with Hawthorn Google credentials. On a PC or Mac, we recommend using the Chrome browser. Each student needs to set up a Chrome profile by signing into the Chrome browser using the Hawthorn Google credentials. Each student profile should be associated with only one student. If you need more information about Chrome profiles, please read the article: Google Chrome Profiles.
Some students/parents receive a Google Error when they try to log in to Canvas. This video explains how to fix the error.
September 10, 2020
This video is a tutorial reviewing Google Drive.
If you would like, here is a video for some additional features of Google Drive.
Before you can create your parent account you need the student pairing code for your student. Watch this video on how to find this code.
This video will guide you on how to set up your parent account. This is assuming that you watched the video above and now have a student pairing code. If you have multiple students attending Hawthorn Academy - you only need one pairing code to create your account. Once your account is created you can go to the section titled "Adding more students to your parent account" to learn how to add more children to your parent account.
This video assumes that you have already created your parent account. This video will guide you on how to log in to your parent canvas account.
This video will guide you on how to add additional student pairing codes to your parent account. This is only necessary if you want to observe more than one student.