What is the Home Base Student Portal?

  • The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Home Base Student Portal provides access to real-time information including attendance, grades, detailed assignment descriptions, and teacher comments. A student’s access to Home Base is through the password protected "Student Portal" at my.ncedcloud.org

Email Access for Students

  • Your school's Instructional Technology Facilitator will distribute usernames and passwords to students.  They will also have the ability to reset passwords during regular school hours.

    Students can login to their accounts by visiting: https://mail.google.com

    Simply enter your full, CHCCS email address and password.

    Your Instructional Technology Facilitator will provide further instructions for students on how to set up their accounts the first time they login.

Student App Assistance

Google Workspace for Education

  • CHCCS Gmail and Chat 

    Students will receive our district-managed version of Google's world-class messaging system, Gmail through Google Workspace for Education. CHCCS Gmail has strong filtering for inappropriate spam messages and contains other protections for students, such as bad word filtering, virus protection, and more. No advertisements are displayed in CHCCS Gmail.

    CHCCS Google Drive

    Our district-managed version of Google Drive contains a complete productivity and creative suite for students, which includes Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Forms, Drawings, video, and cloud-based file storage.

    CHCCS Google Groups

    Google groups provides email groups to students and teachers that can be used to collaborate. Groups can also be used to conveniently share Google Docs, Sites, and Calendars with multiple people.

    CHCCS Google Calendar

    Google Calendar allows students to schedule events, keep up with homework, all in a collaborative environment.

    CHCCS Google Sites

    Google Sites provide students with an easy way to publish websites and online portfolios.

    CHCCS Google Classroom

    Google Classroom provides students and teachers with a collaborative environment for working on assignments and sharing class materials.

     

    A Note about Google Workspace for Education

    Google services in use by the district differ from similar services (like Gmail) available commercially. Google Apps for Education is a district-managed service that is hosted by Google. Google does not collect data from student or employee accounts for commercial purposes, nor are Google employees