Managing your Episcopal School My BackPack Account Online

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1 Managing your Episcopal School My BackPack Account Online Having an Episcopal Online Account has many advantages. You can access academic information, including student schedules, activities and grades. You will also have access to your account details, including statements, details of cafeteria and campus store purchases, update contact information; and you can make payments directly online. There is also a Student/Parent directory look up feature to find contact information for other students and families. How to Set up Your Account Go to ESJ.org to create your account. Click on the My BackPack tab. Click on Forgot Username link. In the next window, type in your address and click Get Username/Password and you will receive your username and password via . For security reasons, this is the only way to obtain a user ID and password. Who to Contact with Questions If you have any log in issues, please mbphelp@esj.org and you will receive a response. If you have any other questions, please contact Patti Fink, Student Accounts Manager, at finkp@esj.org or contact (904) x1303. Logging In You will see the screen below when you log into your account. View the links on the left to select what information you would like to view.

2 Student #1 Picture Student #2 Picture Student Name Student Name Academic - Your student s schedule, calendar, attendance record, grades and comments as well as daily assignments are available. My Accounts All student billing can be accessed here as well as an option for online payment. Academic Student Schedule o Your student s schedule can be seen by choosing Student Schedule under the Academic section. The courses can be sorted by any of the columns, but the most helpful would be sorted by the day which would put them in order of class periods. o This is also the best place to send an to a teacher. Beside each teachers name is an icon which can be clicked to activate a compose window. You can also right-click this icon to choose copy address to paste it into an online compose.

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4 Student Calendar o This calendar is useful to see holidays, attendance and end of quarter dates. However, it does not show the class rotation. Student Attendance o Attendance is marked for every class, not just the school day. You will be able to see quarterly totals any classes that your student has been marked tardy or absent for. o To see the attendance marks per day for each class, click on the Details button on the right side of the screen.

5 Marking Period Grades and Comments o Quarterly grades are available through My BackPack and you may print a copy for your records from here. Mid-quarter grades are called Check Period Grades and are not part of your student s permanent record. Grades are not available until the mid-quarter or end of quarter. o Comments for each class can be viewed by clicking on the magnifying glass icon next to each course. Grades and Comments History o Students who were enrolled at ESJ previously are able to see grades from past years. These can also be printed out.

6 Daily Assignments and Comments o Students and parents can view assignments for individual courses as well as any comments sent by a teacher to the class. o Each class is listed separately so you choose the course with the pull-down menu. Many teachers use additional sites for information so links to those sites are found here.

7 My Accounts o Choose Account Summary to see activity in your students account since the last statement date. This screen also shows balances due broken down by tuition and incidentals (anything other than tuition). Student name 9999 o Choose Account Details to review purchases made in the Cafeteria or the Campus Store.

8 The query can be run based on location (Cafeteria or the Campus Store) and then limited by date range as shown below. Choose Account Details and then Upcoming Charges to review the balance due on your chosen payment plan.

9 o Choose Statements to review current and previous monthly statements. If you wish to print a copy for your records, choose View Printable Statement in the bottom center of the screen. Student name

10 o Choose Pay Online to be guided through the online payment process. The first step separates charges by student (additional children would be listed below with separate boxes for each child). The first of the three columns reflects the current balance due. This column reflects all payments and additional charges posted to your account since your last statement. The second column reflects the balance on your last statement (this is a picture in time). The third column allows you to specify the amount you want to pay. This column will automatically populate with the balance due column. If you want to pay a different amount, you can click in the box and change the payment amount. Do this for each student and then select Next at the bottom left of the screen. Student name You may now pay by check or by credit card online. Choose your payment type on the screen below.

11 Payment by Credit Card: We accept only American Express, Discover and MasterCard. There is a convenience fee of 2.5% associated with payment by credit card to defer the cost to ESJ and help keep tuition down. You must accept the convenience fee in order to proceed by choosing Next.

12 o Complete the below form with your credit card information. You must select Proceed to Payment Confirmation for your payment to be processed. Payment by echeck: Using your transactional banking account (generally a checking account), you can pay online. There is no fee associated with payments received by echeck. You must select Proceed to Payment Confirmation for your payment to be processed.

13 o Please review the Payment Confirmation screen for proper banking accounting information.

14 Directory Use this section to find other ESJ students or their parents contact information. Search by grade, advisor, gender, zip code

15 My Profile All contact information for your child and all linked parents or other contacts can be found here. Search for your child in the Directory section to see what information is available to other students. The information included in the My Profile section is accessible only to ESJ s Business Office, faculty and certain staff members. Please review this information and make corrections or write notes to The Business Office Staff as shown below. PLEASE NOTE THAT CHANGES MUST BE REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY THE BUSINESS OFFICE BEFORE THEY WILL BE REFLECTED IN THE SYSTEM. Home Street address Nickname: address Street address xxx-xxxx Work Street address xxx-xxxx xxx-xxxx

16 o Enter a note to the Business Office in the below window. Please limit these notes to ones that pertain to contact information only. o Edit your name, preferred name and relationship on the below screen. Must be changed by ESJ call Must be changed by ESJ call

17 o Edit your home address, and phone numbers on the below screen. o Also you can choose for this to not be public information by checking the boxes to the right under Do Not Publish. This information will be hidden from the Directory section in My BackPack and will not be included in the printed directory. o At the bottom of this page you may choose how you would like to receive your monthly statement. Yes send a Copy and Yes send the Original will both allow you to receive printed copies of your statement mailed to the address listed in that address window. No will still allow your statement to be published online through My BackPack, but you will not receive a printed copy at this address. REMEMBER: These options are specific to the address you are reviewing in that window. Other addresses (work, former spouse, grandparent, brokerage company...) must be changed individually. o Parent nickname Parent nickname xxx@gmail.com xxx@gmail.com xxx-xxxx xxx-xxxx xxx-xxxx