Online Parent Orientation through Canvas
Using the email addresses that parents/guardians provided, Canvas accounts have been created for those with students who are eligible to take home devices next school year.
Parents can now complete the Parent Orientation online within Canvas. Below are directions, and you can also view the following video.
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To login to Canvas for the first time, parents will use the email address provided to the district as their username. The password will be the month-day-year of the oldest student in the family. As an example, if your oldest student's birthday is June 7, 2003, then the password will be 06072003. Passwords must be eight characters in length, so when attempting to log in, include zeros prior to single digit months and days.
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When parents log in to Canvas for the first time, your Dashboard will display the Courses in which your child is enrolled. To complete the Parent Orientation, look for a specific Canvas Course.
- For parents with multiple students eligible to take home devices next school year, we have two reminders:
- Canvas will allow you to see information on all students from one Parent Observer account.
- Parent Orientation only needs to be completed once. If you have already completed Parent Orientation, you do not need to complete it again.
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When Parent Observer accounts were created based on email addresses provided, no first name or last names were included. Please follow
this
Canvas Guide
to add your personal name to your Parent Observer account. You can also view the video below for directions.
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- SCHOOL EMPLOYEES ONLY:
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Canvas does not allow Teacher accounts and Parent Observer accounts to be the same. For this reason, Parent Observer accounts were created from personal email accounts provided to the district.
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If you do not have a personal email account on file and you did not provide the district ETSs with a personal email account, you were not enrolled into Canvas as a Parent Observer.
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We recommend that parents follow the instructions on
this Canvas Guide
to sign up as a Parent Observer using a personal email account.
Canvas Description
As a reminder, Canvas is the learning management system that the district uses.
We house all secondary courses in Canvas and students complete and submit many assignments using this tool. We also house our online RepMO Ready Parent and Student Orientation in Canvas, as mentioned above. Parent/teacher/student communication tools are also available through Canvas.
In addition, for the 2017-18 school year Canvas will house the most up-to-date student grades for secondary students. Parents can still see grades in our current Parent Portal, but those grades will not be as up-to-date and will mainly be used to send report cards at each term.
In-Person Parent Orientation Dates
If you'd prefer to complete the required parent orientation in person, the following dates and times are available:
May 30: 7:30-8:00 a.m. and 2:00-2:30 p.m. at the RHS auditorium (RMS and RHS parents invited)
August 7: 6:30-7:00 p.m. at RMS
August 7: 7:30-8:00 p.m. at RMS
August 8: 5:30-6:00 p.m. at RHS
August 8: 6:20-6:50 p.m. at RMS
August 8: 7:30-8:00 p.m. at RMS
Please continue to view our district website, Facebook, Tiger Talk, and building newsletters for updates on Parent Orientation and RepMO Ready. To learn more about the overall RepMO Ready plan visit http://www.republicschools.org/repmoready.
