How to Register Your Basic Educator Account
About Basic Accounts
As part of a partnership between CCGI and the California Department of Education (CDE), 6th-12th grade students in your school district can register Basic Accounts on CaliforniaColleges.edu. This means that students in your district will receive access to many of the college and career planning tools on CaliforniaColleges.edu.
If you haven’t already, we recommend using our District Lookup Tool to make sure you’re able to register for the type of account that’s available to you. If you used the District Lookup Tool and were redirected here, that means you’re an educator employed in:
- A school site within a Partner District that has NOT been granted Partner Accounts.
- A district that is not yet partnered with CCGI.
Because students in your district may use CaliforniaColleges.edu for college and career planning, educators in your district also have the opportunity to get accounts on CaliforniaColleges.edu, at no cost to your district.
Instructions
Clicking the tabs below will take you to instructions for how to register your Basic Educator Account, depending on your school district or site situation.
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As of July 2024, California Education Code Section 60900 requires public school districts that enroll 9th-12th grade students to enter into partnership with CCGI. Once a district enters into partnership with CCGI, their students and educators will be granted Partner Accounts that allow them access to all the tools on CaliforniaColleges.edu, including those that require student transcript data, such as the California State University and University of California Eligibility Tools (more information here).
As CaliforniaColleges.edu is the State of California’s official college and career planning platform and a component of the California Cradle-to-Career (C2C) Data System, school districts can enter into partnership with CCGI at no cost. CCGI is a state-funded nonprofit organization that works with the C2C Data System to bring CaliforniaColleges.edu to school districts and is not a vendor.
We encourage you to start the process of becoming a Partner District by emailing us at Contact Us and requesting a meeting with your district.
If you would like educators in your district to be able to track students’ activities in their Basic Accounts on CaliforniaColleges.edu, please review and submit an Educator Account Application.
Once your Basic Educator Account has been created, the next step is to register your account. Follow the steps in the tutorial below to register your Basic Educator Account. If you’ve never used one of our tutorials before, watch this video to learn how to navigate one.
This tutorial walks you through how to successfully register your Educator Account once it has been created.
Here’s an interactive tutorial
** Best experienced in Full Screen (click the icon in the top right corner before you begin) **Once you’ve registered your Basic Educator Account, you can sign in and start using the tools on CaliforniaColleges.edu right away.
If you need help learning how to best navigate and use the tools on CaliforniaColleges.edu, check out the interactive tutorials, educator guides, webinars, and other resources on the CaliforniaColleges.edu Resource Hub.
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Although you are an educator employed by a Partner District, your district does not currently submit data files for all schools that enroll eligible 6th-12th grade students in your district. However, students at these schools can still register Basic Student Accounts as part of this new agreement with CDE.
Since your district is currently a CCGI Partner, we encourage you to include 6th-12th grade students from all schools operated by your district as part of your annual notifications and data files submitted to CCGI. By doing so, all eligible students in your district will receive Partner Accounts, which grant access to all of the college and career planning tools on CaliforniaColleges.edu!
If you’re interested in granting all 6th-12th grade students in your district access to every tool on CaliforniaColleges.edu or want to explore your options for adding additional schools to your district’s partnership, please have your District Point-of-Contact get in touch with your CCGI representative by submitting a Contact Us inquiry.
If you would like educators in your district to be able to track students’ activities in their Basic Accounts on CaliforniaColleges.edu, please review and submit an Educator Account Application.
Once your Basic Educator Account has been created, the next step is to register your account. Follow the steps in the tutorial below to register your Basic Educator Account. If you’ve never used one of our tutorials before, watch this video to learn how to navigate one.
This tutorial walks you through how to successfully register your Educator Account once it has been created.
Here’s an interactive tutorial
** Best experienced in Full Screen (click the icon in the top right corner before you begin) **Once you’ve registered your Basic Educator Account, you can sign in and start using the tools on CaliforniaColleges.edu right away.
If you need help learning how to best navigate and use the tools on CaliforniaColleges.edu, check out the interactive tutorials, educator guides, webinars, and other resources on the CaliforniaColleges.edu Resource Hub.