Archbishop Riordan High School has launched a new online service that will allow parents and guardians to monitor their son's lunchtime purchases, track what he has been eating for the past 30 days, verify retreat and ticket sales, make deposits directly into his Crusader Cash account, transfer funds between students (if you have more than one son in attendance) and have an email reminder sent to you when an account balance gets low.

Students will then be able to purchase any meal or pay any student activities fee (i.e.: dance ticket, retreat fee, prep shop garment, etc.) by simply placing their index finger on our system's biometric scanner. The system does not store your son's fingerprint, but instead creates 30 unique points that are specific to his profile, based on his finger. No forensic data is recorded at any time.

Enrollment Fee ::

There is an enrollment fee of $30.00 per student, which will be charged when you set up your online account (please see the steps below). This system will be mandatory in the cafeteria on January 10, 2012 when we return to school following the holiday break.

Students that choose not to use the system will only have access to the vending machines in the cafeteria. We will also allow a transitional period of the Spring semester (2012) for families for dances, retreats and student activities by check, money order, or credit card. Beginning in August, 2012, all dance tickets, retreats and student activities will be run through the Crusader Cash system.

Loading Money onto Your Son's Account ::

Student debit account deposits can be made online through ACH payments, easily from your checking or savings account. This means that you link your checking (or savings) account to your Crusader Cash account through the secure web site (please see below). We do not auto-debit your checking or savings account, as only you have access to your accounts and you choose how much and when to move funds. Each student's account will be updated nightly so that account balance information and payments will be current as of the following day. This means that if you load money onto your son's account that morning, the funds will not be available this same day, but will be active on his account the next day.

In order to take advantage of this convenient new service, you will need to create a parent account. This requires you to:

After you receive the "verification code" you may begin to add your son's information. To do this, you will need to:

Note: A parent account can be linked to many children, but a child can only be linked to one parent.

We urge you to take full advantage of this system by making deposits into your student's accounts on a weekly, monthly, or annual basis. You are free to choose the amount of each deposit.

Note: There will be a $2.00 per transaction convenience fee associated with each deposit. This fee is charged by our service provider. We recommend making a single monthly transfer to reduce the number of $2.00 service fee charges.

Open Monday through Friday from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm, the Technology Help Desk is staffed with at least one member of the Technology Help Desk team. The Help Desk is available to answer technology questions, offer ongoing support to students, faculty and staff, with respect to academic technology and services, ranging from Riordan email, Google Doc support, and server account assistance to in-class troubleshooting of computers, wireless, overhead digital projectors, Smart Boards and academic software.

The Help Desk is physically located on the second floor of the main school building on the left-hand side of the short hall ending at the steps of the Library. To call the help desk, dial extension *254. The fastest method of communication/response from the Technology Help Desk is by submitting a Help Desk Ticket through the Archbishop Riordan web site

Please note that for security and liability reasons, no member of the help desk will troubleshoot or repair personal computer equipment, digital readers or smart phones, not owned by Archbishop Riordan High School.

Students, faculty and staff may access the online Technology ticket system by going to the Archbishop Riordan web site at http://www.riordanhs.org/ and navigating to the "quick links" menu, located on the right-hand side of all pages of the web site. Students click on the "Students" link and then on " Technology Help Desk"  from the expanded menu. Likewise, faculty and staff click on the "Faculty" link and then on "Technology Help Desk" from their expanded menu.

You can access the ticket system from any computer, mobile device or smart phone that has a connection to the Internet with a browser that can access the riordanhs.info web site from anywhere in the world.

This link will open a new window in your web browser where you then click on "Open A New Ticket" and fill out the very brief form. Please include all information in the description box, including any error messages, what you may have attempted or any other detailed information, as this will expedite a resolution to the problem. Once you submit the ticket, an email will be automatically sent to you and the ticket will be sent to the Help Desk Staff, where they will respond to your request as soon as possible. They will communicate with you through the ticket system, which will email you their responses until the problem has been resolved.

Beginning in August 2011, all students will be issued their own Riordan email account through our primary domain name, riordanhs.info. Partnered with Google Applications for Education, ARHS not only gives students a direct point of electronic communication for their academic needs, they will also have full access to the Google for Education Application platform.

Students access their email login by going to the Archbishop Riordan web site at http://www.riordanhs.info/ and navigating to the "quick links" menu, located on the right-hand side of all pages of the web site. Students click on the "Students" link and then on "Student Email Login"  from the expanded menu.

All student email accounts utilize the following nomenclature: the student's first letter of their first name, their full last name and their graduation year, followed by @riordanhs.info. As an example, John Smith who is an incoming freshman in the Fall of 2011, and will therefore graduate in 2015, would have the email address of jsmith2015@riordanhs.info. Each student is given their email login and password during student orientation or at their entrance point if that occurs at a latter time.

Beginning in August 2011, all students have individual access to Riordan's Google for Education Application platform. Once logged into their Riordan email account, they simply navigate to the "Documents" tab inside their email interface, located at the top-left of their display, for full access to the online application suite of software.

This cloud-based software suite includes a word processing program (Document), a spreadsheet program (Spreadsheet), presentation software (Presentation), a program to create forms (Forms), and a graphic design program (Drawing). Google explains their suite of online software as "Web-based documents, spreadsheets, drawings and presentations that let users edit the same file at the same time so you always have the latest version." This also means that students always have a powerful office suite anywhere they have an internet connection, allowing them access to their school work, home work, research projects and term papers. Faculty members utilize this same system to create virtual, shared documents, research projects and interactive learning environments with their entire class in real-time.

Archbishop Riordan was one of the first schools in the United States to use the interactive online Power School system when it was first offered many years ago. Today, all of the faculty take attendance, track tardiness, input grades and home work scores directly into the secure Power School system. Parents and students each have their own login to access their account, see live attendance, scores and overall GPA. Pearson Education, the owner of Power School, explains the platform as "PowerSchool is the fastest-growing, most widely used web-based student information system, supporting nearly 10 million students in all 50 states and more than 60 countries. PowerSchool enables today's educators to make timely decisions that impact student performance while creating a collaborative environment for parents, teachers and students to work together in preparing 21st century learners for the future."

To access the Power School login, simply navigate to the Archbishop Riordan web site at http://www.riordanhs.info/ and then mouse to the "quick links" menu, located on the right-hand side of all pages of the web site. Students click on the "Students" link and then on "PowerSchool Login" from the expanded menu. Likewise, parents and guardians navigate to the "quick links" menu, located on the right-hand side of all pages of the web site. They then click on the "Parents" link and then on "PowerSchool Login"  from the expanded menu.

Login and password information is given out by the main office during orientation each semester. For problems with your login account to PowerSchool, please contact the main office at 415-586-8200.

Archbishop Riordan utilizes the power and educational resource of the industry leader in assisting students with their writing through Turn-It-In, "Turnitin improves the student writing cycle by preventing plagiarism and providing rich feedback to students." Students and faculty have 24/7 access to this online system by simply going to the Archbishop Riordan web site at http://www.riordanhs.info/ and navigating to the "quick links" menu, located on the right-hand side of all pages of the web site. Students click on the "Students" link and then on "Turnitin.com"  from the expanded menu.

Here are further Turn-it-in Resources:

• Getting Started with Turnitin.com
• Student Training and Assistance
• Instructor Training and Assistance
• Turnitin Community Site

Archbishop Riordan High School offers students, faculty and staff access to their on-site technology through the more than 200 Apple OS computer systems on campus, located in 3 Multimedia Computer Labs, the Herbst Foundation Library, the KRHS Television Studio, the Resource Specialist Program (RSP) and in the Counseling Department's "College Room."

In addition, every faculty member has an Apple computer in their classroom, connected to the school's computer network, digital overhead projector, digital document camera and/or Smart Board or Promethean Board, allowing continual access to the Riordan Power School platform and Google for Education platform.

Archbishop Riordan strives to maintain the latest in professional and academic software for our students' educational use. Here is a partial listing of some of our current software suites: