Getting Ready for the First Day of School

Please review these action items before the first day of school.

• Make sure you can log into your laptop

• Set your default browser to Chrome

• Zoom Meetings- All Zoom meetings should be launched from your Canvas courses. Students will not see a Zoom icon on their SSO dashboard. You do not need to sign in to Zoom meetings.

  • Zoom Information for Parents

• Find SSO on your desktop and sign in with your username (s and student id) and password (the one you created using 12 characters) If you haven't done this, please visit the correct link.

  • New Students and incoming 9th Graders

  • Returning 10th-12th Graders

• Click the Canvas app to access your courses. Follow this tutorial if you are new to Canvas.

• Every teacher will have a Canvas course. The courses may not be published until the day before school begins. Go to Courses in the Canvas navigation bar and then click "All Courses" to see your full list of classes. Mark each class with a STAR for them to show up in your Dashboard.

• Click on a course and check out the home page to view the teacher's information. There should be a link on the home page that you will click on at the start of each period. This will be the link to your virtual zoom meeting.

• Read through the Zoom Etiquette and Zoom Rules.

• Review the Bell Schedule below. You will find your class schedule in TAC. Using your schedule and the start times on the bell schedule, you will click on each of those courses at the beginning of each class. Attendance will be taken at the beginning of each period.