Yes. For resources on how to use HCPSS Connect, please visit HCPSS Connect Guides.

Emergency contact information will be there from last year. However, please review all information and update as necessary.

HCPSS Connect provides access to a variety of student information and classroom instructional tools offering personalized communication and timely, relevant and easily accessible information relating to your student. To login to HCPSS Connect, visit www.hcpss.org/connect/

Canvas is the Learning Management System (LMS) used by HCPSS. It is a one-stop shop for your students’ information, grades and coursework.

Check your spam or junk folder for messages from notifications@instructure.com. Mark the email as not spam, and add this email address to your safe senders list. Adding notifications@instructure.com to your address book can prevent your email provider from filtering Canvas notifications to your spam folder.

To adjust your Canvas notification preferences, go to the Notification Settings screen. You have four options for notification frequency for each category: "Notify immediately," "Daily summary," "Weekly summary," or "Notifications off." Please note that daily and weekly summaries are sent as a single digest email from notifications@instructure.com around 6 pm.

For additional Canvas resources, please visit the Canvas Orientation Course.

Teachers have the ability to include informational content, class assignments, videos, quizzes, projects, and discussions. Teachers also use Canvas as a communication tool to post course announcements or to send direct messages via the Inbox.

In Canvas, there are courses (tiles) for each class/subject your child is taking. Each course is managed by their teacher and will contain an overview page, instructional content, assignments, and grades. Your child will also have an ungraded grade level team page (K-5) or school-wide course (6-12) that is used to share news and resources.

Yes. Calendars found in the Canvas can be exported into popular personal calendars such as iOS, Google, Outlook, etc. See: How do I view the Calendar iCal feed to subscribe to an external calendar as an observer?