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This is the login screen for ConnectEd. Ms. Frizzle will type in her password and log in. 
If she forgets her username or password, she can recover them through the forget username and password link.

Upon login, Ms. Frizzle sees the main page of ConnectEd. At the top of the screen she can use the notification center (news) where she can get updates on the latest activities, such as a change in schedule.
 Afterward, she can pick the primary class she would like to communicate with. She can change this selection at a later time.
She can also perform actions that are relevant to all of her classes. She can check messages (from parents), create forms, and check her calendar.

When she picks a class (3A Hebrew) the layout of the screen will change, and she will have specific options for this class.
These options are: a list of all of her students, a gradebook for the class, and assignment section, where she can upload homework assignments for her students.

When Ms. Frizzle hovers over the forms button, it will change into two sub-buttons.
The first will allow her to create a new form, and the second will allow her to review existing forms.

When Ms. Frizzle clicks the new form button, a pop-in window will allow her to create a new form. If she presses cancel escape or clicks the X
button or cancel button, she will go back to the main page. In the pop-in window she picks a template for the form, fills in the activity name, picks the classes that will attend this activity and sets the date of the activity.

Ms. Frizzle can preview the template by clicking the preview button. This will also allow her to manually change the text in the template if she would like to do that. After she is done with the form she can send it to her class.

When she clicks send, ConnectEd will email all of the parents in the class with a link that will take them to the login screen of ConnectEd on their computers.

When she receives the email, Arnold's mom will sign in to ConnectEd using her username and password.

Arnold's mom's main screen shows her the latest news for all her children in each category. She can she the current classes that Arnold takes, check his grades, check his assignments, check for incoming messages, address forms she has to read and sign, and learn about upcoming events in the calendar.
In this example there is an ice skating permission slip that was sent by Ms. Frizzle.

When she clicks on that form, a pop-in window shows her the form. She can either approve it by checking the "I give permission ..."  and approve button, or she can deny or asked to be reminded later about this slip.

Back to Ms. Frizzle's computer! Ms. Frizzle would like to know how many students are attending the activity, and how many parents did not yet sign the permission slip. She hovers over the forms button again and clicks on view existing.

This pop-in a window (that can be closed by pressing escape or the X or cancel button). She can search for the form by typing the name of the activity in a search menu, that will give her options for appropriate slips, based on autocomplete. When she finds the permission slips that she wants, she can either click on it, press enter or press view in order to view it.

The previous screen will be replaced with the following table.
The table consists of her students and each student is marked with: check for approved, X for denied, and ? for pending. Ms. Frizzle can filter the table based on the students' names or the status of their permission slips. She can resend the form as a reminder for a specific parent who did not approve or to all the parents who did not do so. Finally, she can review the permission slip she sent to the parents.