Google Passwords

Setting up Your Password

• Sign In - Go to “www.gmail.com” 

  • If you already have a non-Silverdale Google account, click on your icon, then click “Add Account”

  • This will bring you to the sign in page

• Your Email Address - the last two numbers of your graduating year, your first initial, and your last name, followed by “@silverdaleba.org”

  • Example - if your name is John Smith, your graduating year is 2023, your silverdaleba email would be “23jsmith@silverdaleba.org”

  • Your Password - Initially set as Seahawks1! (for all new MS and HS students), but should immediately be changed by the student

Changing Your Password - All students 8th grade and up are REQUIRED to change their password once they have created their account 

• • This password is the password for your Gmail, Drive, Sites, and all other Google accounts.

    • If you know your current Password:

      • Sign in to your account

      • Click on your email address that is in the upper right corner

      • Click on “Account”

      • Click the second tab at the top, “Security”

      • Click “Change Password”

      • Enter your current password

      • Enter your NEW password--twice for verification, following the guidelines in the SBA Password Policy (Remember, once you change your password, you cannot go back to your old one).

      • Save changes

If you have forgotten your password, or it will not work

• • The SBA Technology Department are the ONLY ONES who can reset email passwords

  • Use the “Can’t access your account?” link and the "I don't know my password" option, which will direct you to a page with up to three recovery options:

    • Get a verification code sent to your mobile device.

    • Request a password reset email to be sent to your recovery account.

    • Answer your security question and perform an on-line password reset.

    • Proceed to the Account Recovery Form. Look for a "Verify your identity" link if the other options don't work.

NOTE: If you change your email password in one computer or device, you will have to change the password in any other device that automatically logs you in..

• If you ever forget your password go see:

  • Chris Lusardo (Room 24)

  • Logan Melton (Room 24)

  • David Barber  (Room 211 off 2nd floor of the atrium)