Yelm Community Schools

Facts about the “New YCS Portal”

•  The new link is portal.ycs.wednet.edu
•  Usernames – You do not have to qualify your username any longer 

          o Staff example – “smith85”

          o Student example – “smithjon001”

          o @ycs.wednet.edu – No longer needed for staff usernames

          o @student.wednet.edu – No longer needed for student usernames

• K – 5 can use QR Codes 
• K – 2 can use Picture Passwords 
• SPED - Picture Passwords are available for any and or all SPED accounts 
• This is set manually in the YCS Portal page. Teachers have this ability

           o This is set manually in the YCS Portal page. Teachers have this ability.

• New Staff Accounts – New staff accounts are updated automatically every morning at 3 am

          o All Staff accounts are generated out of Skyward; if your account is not in Skyward you will not have a YCS Portal account to log into. 

• New Student Accounts – New student accounts updated automatically every 2 hours.

          o All Student accounts are generated out of Skyward; if your account is not in Skyward you will not have a YCS Portal account to log into. 

• PASSWORDS – Staff and Students can reset their own passwords if they have forgotten them 

           o This is why you set up the Challenge Response questions

           o Teachers also have the ability to reset student passwords

           o OP’s have the ability to reset teacher and student passwords