Your school administrator will provide you with your login information for your school’s Sycamore School account. A school ID, user name and password are required to access your school’s online Sycamore School community. The website address app.sycamoreschool.com/index.php?schoolid=3374 goes to the special login screen for your school. If you do not use the "schoolid=3374" in the URL, you will go to a generic login screen that will also require you to enter your school's schoolid, a 4 digit code. You may also select a Language to view the site in (English is the default). Make this URL a bookmark and then each day you can login directly to your site.
If you are a new user, there are two things you should do right away so that you can full navigation in your Sycamore school site:
The homepage is where you land when you first login to Sycamore (IF you have okay'd the Welcome Aboard message and changed your password). Any time you want to get back to this page, you need to click on the Home link in the upper left menu.
NOTE - you have to first set up your computer (1. Say ok to the Welcome Aboard Message and 2. Change your password) before you will see the full Homepage. You can not take advantage of ease to use functionality until you do so.
The home page contains the following fields:
The header across the top displays your school name, logo and the current school year. Clicking on the logo may be a link to the school’s public web site. In the top right, you will also see icons with your students' names listed below or thumbnail photos for each of your current students. Clicking on an icon will open that student’s profile. More information on this window is found in Site Basics - Parents: My Family: Students.
Information - My Students will show your students' names and if you put your mouse over their name you will see a menu and be able to click to see Documents, Schedules, Grades, Attendance and|or Homework/Assignments.
To the left is the Sycamore Education school site menu items.
The center section of the home page will list recent news articles, upcoming calendar events, uploaded documents or photos depending on which tab is on the top.
The last area on the homepage is a vertical display of boxes on the right of the page that offer information that pertains to the school, which may include: Link to school related webpages, Flash News, Today’s Events, Staff Logged In, Documents, and Photos or Link Highlights. Also in this area is a display of your Local Weather based on your school’s zip code.
You can access your student’s classroom web pages in two clicks. Hover over your student's photo or icon at top right to see a menu, then click on the Schedule item:
You will then see your student's schedule; click on the name of a specific class to go into that class site:
The following is an overview of menu options a parent will have available to them as listed in order on the menu.
Similar to the school home page, the windows on the right side of the classroom web page are dynamic and may change from time to time.