Student Self-Enrollment and Student Enrollment by a Teacher

When a student is assigned to do self-enrollment, there are a few informational items that will help him or her to find the correct forms and fill them out accurately.

On a school or home computer, the student should open his/her Internet browser to the Internet address given for the school's LiftAmerica web site. This address will always have four (4) elements: 1) an identifying school name and 2) state abbreviation, followed by the 3) LiftAmerica domain name and 4) address extension, such as: www.watson.ut.liftamerica.net or www.skyline.ny.liftamerica.com.

On the school page there is a list of classes. See the sample Classes block below.

Clicking on the underlined class title takes the user directly to the login/sign-up page for the selected class, example below. Selecting the Sign Me Up link retrieves the Self-Enrollment form.

  Students should not be re-enrolled once they have been entered into the system. If a student is moving to a new class from a previous semester, there is a transfer link available on each student record to move him/her into the new class. If student usernames have been forgotten, teachers can check the list under the Select A Student link for that information. 

It is also possible for a teacher to enroll the student. To do so, the teacher should login to the school web site using his or her teacher username and password and then click the underlined name of the class to which the student is assigned. The Teacher’s Page will appear. Selecting the Add A Student link will open the enrollment form. 

The Self-Enrollment form is on two pages and is divided into five (5) short sections - Personal Information, Contact Information, Online Profile, In case you forget…, and Subscription Preferences. The student can use the mouse to click in each field and type in the correct data or the tab key to move the cursor from one box to the next.

The first section contains the student’s personal information. Five (5) of the fields are mandatory, as shown by the use of asterisks . If an asterisked field is not filled in or is filled in incorrectly, an error icon  will appear next to the field box. The screen will not save until all fields with error icons have been corrected.

Please make every effort to be accurate and complete when filling out this information. If a teacher is enrolling students, LiftAmerica recommends that the teacher survey the students for all information, including a current e-mail address, prior to accessing the Add A Student forms.

<  First Name – Use the first name that is on the student’s permanent record, capitalizing

the first letter only, unless the official spelling of the name indicates otherwise.

<  Last Name – Use the last name that is on the student’s permanent record, capitalizing

the first letter only or as legally capitalized (i.e. MacAdams, deWaal, O’Toole and

similar names are preferably spelled with multiple capitalizations or mid-word

capitalization only.).

            <  E-mail  - Use the standard e-mail address format, such as rwallace@aol.com.

            <  Gender – Using the mouse, click either the Male or Female radio buttons.

            <  Birth Date – Use any format for date entry. Entries such as:

                        Jan 1, 2001

                        January 1, 01

                        1/1/2001

                        01/01/01

            < Race – This field may be filled in by clicking the arrow, causing the drop-down box to

appear. Mouse over the line items in the box until the correct word(s) is/are

highlighted, then click. The selected word(s) will appear in the field box.

Section two contains the student’s contact information and should be updated as becomes necessary.       

            <  Address – Use standard street, apartment and/or unit designations, capitalizing where

appropriate (i.e. Aspen Avenue, Bountiful Boulevard, Lois Lane, Stoddard

Street.). Abbreviations such as - N, S, E, W, Ave, Blvd, Apt and # are acceptable.

            <  City – Use the usual city name and spell it out completely, capitalizing appropriately.

            <  State – You may enter either the state code or the full state name. Entries such as:                          

                        ca

                        CA

                        California

                        CALIFORNIA

may be typed and will be standardized by the system to be the uniform two-letter USPS state abbreviation.

<  Zip Code – Use either the five (5) digit zip code or the Zip + 4 code. If you enter Zip + 4,

the system will hyphenate in the correct position.

<  Phone Number – Use the number for the main household, including area code.  Phone

number extensions and cell phone numbers are allowed by the system, but should

not be used except when a main household number is not available.

At the bottom of this page are four (4) buttons. Previous  is unavailable until page two.  Next   is used to save this information and proceed to the next screen. Save  is not available until page two. Cancel  is used to quit the formation of this enrollment and does not allow any information to be saved. To proceed to page two, the student should click the Next  button. Pressing the enter key also advances the screen to the following page.

The Online Profile is the first section of page two.  As is the case on the previous page, it contains asterisks  to indicate mandatory fields. Error icons  appear if these items are not filled in or typed using an incorrect format.

             <  Username – Choose any name or word that is entirely unique to the student and easy

to remember. A variation of the student’s name is commonly used to construct a

username, such as jlsmith for John Lee Smith. Since there are many names in

common and each username must be entirely unique, it is also advisable to add

numbers to the name, such as jlsmith9876. Additionally, the username is case-

sensitive. Whenever the username is typed within the system, it must be typed with

the exact same spacing, numbers, capital and lowercase letters as are entered in this

field.

<  Password – Choose any name or word that is unique to the student and easy to

remember. This password is also case-sensitive. Whenever the password is required

by the system, the spacing, numbers, capital or lower case letters must be typed

exactly as typed in this field.

             <  Re-type Password – This field serves as a check that the student has not entered a

typing error into their password field.  Be sure to type the password exactly as above.

If a difference exists between the two fields, an error icon  will appear next to the Re-

type Password field and the screen will not save until the error has been corrected.

             <  Question We’ll Ask  - These preset questions are used if a student should forget

his/her username or password. To access the questions, click the arrow and scroll

down the list until the preferred question is highlighted. Click to select.

             <  Your Answer – Type in any easily remembered answer to the question.

             <  Subscription Preferences – If the student has an e-mail provider that does not support

html, then the Not Formatted radio button should be clicked. Otherwise, the formatted

button should remain selected.

When this page is complete, the student should click the Save  button.