Rippon’s Student Guide
Rippon’s website is located at http://rms.schoolfusion.us/ or http://www.pwcs.edu/rippon
New student accounts will be computer generated this year. To access your new account, please use your student number for your user name and your birth date in the format of "MMDDYYYY" as your password.
UPDATE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Please go to the site listed above and log in using your assigned username and password. On the left hand side under the mini-calendar, there will be a welcome message.
Welcome, Mike
Click on “My Personal Settings” under your name.
Under Personal Information, please add your email address, then hit the button. This is important so that you can receive information from this website, including messages from your teachers.
If you would like to change your password, you can under Change Password. Type in a password that you will remember. Please check your Caps Lock key, as this password will be case-sensitive. Be sure to type the password again under Confirm Password: Then hit the button to save your changes.
MAKE SURE YOU ARE JOINED TO ALL APPROPRIATE CLASSES, TEAMS AND CLUBS
This will be done for your classes automatically at the beginning of each semester. On the left hand side, under What’s Happening, you will see a list of the classes, clubs and teams to which you belong. All the homework and events that your teachers and coaches put into any of these pages will appear on your personal calendar. If there are any classes, clubs or teams that you should be a member of but aren’t, find them under the class, club or team menu items on Rippon’s homepage. Bring up the associated webpage for each and click “Join this class” or “Join this Team” or “Join this Group” on the top right of the class, club or team page. Once the administrator of that class, club or team approves you, you will be a member, and all the events will automatically appear on your personal calendar.
YOUR PERSONAL CALENDAR
You can access your personal calendar on the left side under the Welcome Box. Once you are logged in, there should be a My Calendar link under the mini-calendar. You can add personal events (such as friends birthdays) to your personal calendar by clicking on the Add Event link at the top.
You can also sort your events by class using the checkboxes at the bottom.
CREATING CUSTOMIZED PERSONAL REMINDERS
If you have placed an email address in the system (see above), you can setup an email reminder for all your homework, tests and events. To do this, click on My Personal Settings on the left side under the Welcome Box. On the right side, under Digests and Notifications, click on Setup Daily Digests. Follow the directions and click on your preferences.
Even if you set up automatic reminders, be sure to log on to all your classes periodically to check for announcements, discussions, links, web pages and quizzes.
UPLOADING PERSONAL FILES
At the very bottom of the left column (under the Welcome box), is an area called “My Files.” This allows you to upload homework and other school-related files that you might need to move between computers. Please note that this area is designed for school-related projects only. There is a maximum on this file space, and students are not granted additional file space unless a request comes from one of your teachers.
