Student Tech Setup - Google Chrome
Welcome to the Valor Student Portal. Here you will find special announcements, links, forms and other resources to help you stay up-to-date with your Valor community.
This page will walk you through getting a new chrome profile set up, as well as logging in to your Valor Email account (EID) for the first time. This process will work even if you have chrome already set up with a personal gmail account.
If you have not downloaded chrome already, please do so here. If you receive an error message at any point during this process and aren’t sure what to do, visit the bottom of this page for answers to common problems.
Chrome Profile Setup
1. Open Chrome. In the upper right-hand corner, click the grey person icon.
2. After you press the grey person icon, click the dropdown button that says “Add.”
3. Give your profile a name such as “Valor” and select a color. Then click Done.
4. Once you have created the profile, click “Already a Chrome user? Sign in“
5. You will now be presented with a login page. Every student is issued an @govalor.com email that corresponds to their name. Which going forward will be referred to as a Valor EID.
The format will be LegalFirstName.LastName@govalor.com
(For example: If you have a legal first name of Katherine, and a last name of Smith, but you go by Kate; your email address will be Katherine.Smith@GoValor.com.)
Your nickname will still appear on emails you send, and you can receive emails at Kate.Smith@GoValor.com, however you will need to log in with your legal first name.
Enter that Email Address into the field and click the blue next button.
6. You will now be redirected to a Valor login page.
Enter that same username in the username field
The default password is in the following format: StudentMMDDYYYY (MMDDYYYY is your date of birth)
For example, if your date of birth is July 1, 2007; your first-time password would be: Student07012007
Enter that password and click Sign In.
7. Once you have logged in the first time, you will be asked to change your password.
Enter that same "StudentMMDDYYYY" password in the "Old Password" field, and enter a new password into the new password fields.
Please note the following requirements when setting a password:
-Minimum 10 Characters
-Must include 3 of the 4 following types: Upper Case, Lower Case, Number, or Special Characters
-Can not include any part of your name
After you have completed updating your password, it will ask you to log in again with your new password. Following that login, it will ask you to enter some information that will be used in the event you need to recover your account or reset your password.
7. (Continued) Click submit. Your password will have been changed and you will now be signed in to chrome.
8. On the following page after updating your password, you will be re-directed to “Verify it’s you” page. Click continue.
9. You will be prompted with a terms of service message from Google on your first sign in, click accept.
10. A window will drop down from the top of chrome after clicking this. Click Link Data.
11. Another window will pop up asking if you want to turn on sync. Click Yes, I’m In. This will make it so any bookmarks you create in this chrome profile will sync to your device as well as any one you sign in to on campus. This will also allow the default bookmarks from the school appear.
12. That’s it! You’ll now see a google’s search bar in the middle as well as options for gmail and other resources in the top right. Additionally, you will now see a “Valor Christian High School” folder appear in your bookmarks bar. Inside of this folder we have provided you some helpful links to common resources.
Your chrome has now been set up. If all looks good, you can now proceed back to the main tech setup for more information and steps.
If you ran in to any error messages or had some problems. We have provided some solutions to common problems below.
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Common Problems
Here are some of the common error messages you may receive during this process, as well as their solutions. If these resolutions don’t work, feel free to reach out to us at helpdesk@valorchristian.com between 8A-5P on weekdays and we will help you out.
This can appear during the first time sign in. A couple of things to check:
- Make sure you are using your legal first name
- If you have a hyphenated last name, such as Smith-Parker; you’ll need to enter that as SmithParker
- Double check the case sensitivity on the password. If your first-time password is Student07012007 make sure the 'S' is capital