January 10 is the start date for the required eAcademy Orientation, which is completely online and takes a couple of hours. Orientation is not optional (see message below for health) and students who do not complete the Orientation will be removed from the eAcademy program. Please complete the Orientation BEFORE midnight January 14. If you are unable to meet that deadline, you must contact Mr Warner and ask for more time to avoid being removed from the eAcademy program.

January 15 is the start date for your online course. You need to attend a required course Zoom meeting(s) with your teacher and some of them are a day early or other times. Zoom information is below, so please look and put a reminder in your phone to attend.

PE and Health Instructions:

• PE and Health are separate .50 courses. Students can take either PE or Health (or both in summer session only), as advised by their counselor.
  • PE students received a separate email with instructions and must pick up their Polar monitor, complete set up, and have a practice workout uploaded before the required PE course Zoom meeting. Use the print instructions that came with your Polar monitor. Click here to see a summary of the steps online.
  • Health students will get another email this week with special instructions and your login for your health course. (Health is non-physical; there are no workouts for Health.)
• Startup requirements:
  • PE students must complete the orientation, whether just taking PE, or both PE and health
  • Students taking only Health and no other courses will NOT complete the orientation. Continue reading and follow only the instructions that apply to health.

Here are the steps to complete the required Orientation (all courses except Health), online, on your own:

1. Continue reading this page of instructions. At the bottom you will be directed to the next page of information.
2. After reading that page, you will click on the correct button (A) Information For eAcademy Students to continue. Read that page and watch the required 35-minute startup video.
3. Then continue through the remaining Orientation pages. It takes a couple of hours to read and understand the information.
4. The last page of the Orientation will ask you to log in to Moodle (where your eAcademy course is found) to take a short quiz demonstrating that you completed the Orientation. The video (step 2 above) tells how to get to Moodle and log in.

And that's it; it's all in order step by step and if you can follow written instructions you can't get lost.

Zoom Class Meetings - All Students (including Health):

• January 15 is start day and all students will need to attend a required Zoom class meeting with your instructor either that day or at the alternative times offered by the instructor; some are earlier or later! If you have more than one class, please attend one Zoom at the early time and the other at the later time. If you miss your Zoom meeting, you will need to contact your instructor to ask what options there are for makeup. Do not contact Mr Warner. Your instructor’s information can be found in your Moodle course.
• Links for all class Zoom meeting days and times are on a single page. Click here for Zoom links (See the schedule; a couple of meetings have a date or time change.) Please put a reminder in your phone so you don't miss your meeting.
• Parents are encouraged and welcome to sit with their student and listen in on the Zoom meeting. However, parents should not Zoom in as a participant in course Zoom meetings.

The online startup and Orientation are very detailed and contain all the information you need to get started in your course. Your success depends on your ability to read and follow written instructions – a fundamental skill that is crucial to being an online student. A hint before you move on - use Chrome or Firefox only, no other browsers. We wish you luck and a great semester!

You are now ready to continue. Scroll back up and to the navigation menu (top left) and go on to the next button.