Metro Ed Email Accounts

Each of you has a *@metroed.net email address. You'll need access to this email address to get the extended free trial of Adobe Illustrator. You access these email addresses by logging into Gmail with the new email address. Your password is your birth date in mmddyyyy format. (8 digits, no spaces, add a 0 (zero) in front of single-digit months and days.) This all depends on your birth date being correct in Infinite Campus. If you can't log in with this password, check your birth date in Infinite Campus.

Your email address. In general, your email address is firstInitial.lastName@metroed.net. For example:

• a.marin@metroed.net

In some cases, they had to add a number to your email address. Use this email if you are in this list:

• c.arriagaquintero@metroed.net
• b.cruz1@metroed.net
• d.gomez2@metroed.net
• j.hernandez12@metroed.net
• j.lopez2@metroed.net
• v.tran3@metroed.net

If you have another Gmail account, which most of you do, it could be a pain to switch back and forth between this email account and your  other Gmail account. This is also true for most of the teachers, so this is the general strategy we have found most useful. Use a separate browser for your metroed.net email address and your other Gmail account. For example:

• Use Chrome for the metroed.net email account
• Use Firefox or another browser for your other Gmail account

Save your password. The system may require that you change your password from the default of mmddyyyy. If you lose your password, I can't help you. The people in the back can help you, but they are all working from home and they are overloaded. So make sure to save your password. (Mac users: there is a program called Keychain Access that saves all your passwords for you.)

Adobe Illustrator. Here is the process:

1. On the web, create an Adobe account using your metroed.net email address. You can't get the extended free trial from your other email addresses.
2. You'll get an email from Adobe on your new email address.  So you'll need to check your new email account and reply to the email somehow, perhaps by typing in a code.
3. Download the Adobe Creative Cloud program. This program coordinates all your other downloads.
4. Download Adobe Illustrator. We are currently using version 2017, I think, but download whichever version it lets you.
5. If you think you'll be creating sound files, you could also install Adobe Audition.

Let me know. Send me an email if you were successful, and send me an email if you are unsuccessful.