Ashland School District staff and student user names are firstname.lastname@asdconnect.org
All Ashland School District students can download and install the Office Suite to their computer. Navigate to office.com and sign in using your school district credentials. You will see a list of all available apps and directly above that list should be a link that says "Install Office". Click that link and follow the on-screen prompts to download and install Microsoft Office on your computer.
No, an account is created for your child. Students will access Canvas using their Offce 365 account: firstname.lastname@asdconnect.org.
Canvas is a website, to get started you can click on the green "LOGIN" button that corresponds to your role (student or parent) located at the top of this page. Canvas also has an app for Android, & iOS.
If you have a parent account for PowerSchool, login to your account and near the top you will see a short message with your student's password listed.
Students will log into Canvas using their Office 365 login, which is firstname.lastname@asdconnect.org and their normal district assigned password.
Observers have limited permissions that allow them to see what is going on in a course and a calendar of assignments. Like students, Observers cannot view a course until it is published and the course has started. For assistance with Assignments, Test Dates, Quizzes, or other Canvas course content, please contact your student’s teacher.
Below are the features available to Parents and Guardians. Please note that not all courses use all features:
After you install the Canvas mobile app, students, teachers or parents will be asked "What's your school's name?", please enter "Ashland School District 5 - Students/Teachers" or "Ashland School District 5 - Parents" depending on your role.
The Canvas works in the the following desktop browsers:
The internet has many videos, guides and articles about Canvas. We recommend the following:
Parents will need to create their own account once they arrive at the login page. Once you have a account created, you will be given access as an Observer to Canvas. You will need to obtain a pairing code to access you child's account.
Observers have limited permissions that allow them to see what is going on in a course and a calendar of assignments. Like students, Observers cannot view a course until it is published and the course has started. For assistance with Assignments, Test Dates, Quizzes, or other Canvas course content, please contact your student’s teacher.
Below are the features available to Parents and Guardians. Please note that not all courses use all features:
After you install the Canvas mobile app, students, teachers or parents will be asked "What's your school's name?", please enter "Ashland School District 5 - Students/Teachers" or "Ashland School District 5 - Parents" depending on your role.
The Canvas works in the the following desktop browsers:
The internet has many videos, guides and articles about Canvas. We recommend the following: