In this guide, we’ll talk about how to set-up your Cc Pro for Schools Account. This video is designed specifically for administrators.

In it, we’ll talk about:

To get started, visit commoncurriculum.com and then click “Sign In or Up”

If this is your first time, enter your school-affiliated email address, create a new password and click “Create my New Account”

We’ll enter our salutation, our first and last name, and then we’ll choose our title. Then we’ll click, "Take me to the Last Step."

From here, you’ll be guided through planbook set-up. Though you, as an administrator, may not create your own planbook for daily use, this can be a great opportunity to learn more about how teachers can optimize their own planbooks. If you’d like to save this step, you can simply click through until you land in your new planbook.

From here, we’ll click the home icon in the top left corner of the screen. On the right side, we’ll click “Create a School or District.”

We’ll choose “District, School or Team”

We’ll add the school name, the number of teachers in our organization, and the city in which our school is located. We’ll enter our role, our phone number, and how we’d like to pay. If you’re not sure, not to worry. We can choose this later. Now we’ll click “Start my Trial”

It’s now time to add teachers and fellow administrators.

To add a teacher, we’ll click “+Add Teacher,” enter their school-affiliated email address. They’ll automatically receive an email invitation to your school account.

To add administrators, we’ll follow the same process, this time clicking “+Add Admin” and then entering their email address.

Once we have added teachers and administrators, we can create teams.

Depending on the size of your school, teams can be a great way to streamline your observation routines and to help teachers to collaborate with their colleagues. For instance, you might create a team for each content level.

To do this, we’ll click where it says “Create Teams” and then choose “+Add Team.” We’ll give the team a title, something like Science and then we’ll click “Create my Team.”

From here, we can add members by clicking “+Add Member” and then typing in the teacher’s name or their school-affilitated email addresses.

After creating teams, we can create custom lesson templates that are automatically shared with our staff. To do this, we will click “Share Templates,” then “+Add Template” and we’ll customize the template to our school’s needs. There is no limit to the number of custom templates that you can share with your school. For a more in-depth look on templates, check out our Cc 101 guide, called “Custom Templates for Increased Rigor"

Lastly, we’ll talk about how to manage payment for your Cc Pro for Schools account. By clicking “Manage Payment,” we can adjust the size of our school account, generate quotes, and pay our balance.

To adjust the number of teacher seats in your account, click “Change School Size,” using the arrows to increase or decrease the number. By clicking save, we can generate a quote for our school account. If you’re paying with a card or check, you can click ‘Pay Now.’ Or, if you’ll submit a Purchase Order, click “Create Quote(Pay with Purchase Order).”

Of course, if you have questions about payment, you can always contact us at [email protected].

And that’s it! Now that you’ve set up your school account, check out our Guides for Admins to learn how Cc can revolutionize your planning and accountability routines.