2-Step Authentication is also known as 2nd-Factor or 2FA. It combines your password with another factor, such as your phone with a text message, to prove who you are when logging into your account. This provides an extra level of security for the students and staff at Clear Creek Amana Schools when adding it to your Google account. All faculty and staff are required to enable 2-Step Authentication.

Step-by-step guide:


1. Go to accounts.google.com to sign into your CCA Schools account.

2. Type in your CCA Schools email address and click the next button.

3. Enter the password for your CCA Schools email address and click the next button.

4. Within your account Home page click on the Security option tab on the left hand side.

5. Scroll down until you see the headline reading Signing in to Google. Until enabled 2-Step Verification is turned off. To open the 2-Step Verification menu click the arrow on the right hand side.



6. You will be taken to the set-up page for 2-Step Verification. Click on the Get Started button.

7. The next page will ask you to to enter your password again. This is a verification step. Click on the next button.

8. Enter your mobile cell phone number that you will use to receive the codes for the 2-Step Verification.

Next select how you would like to receive the code. The recommendation is to receive these codes via text message (SMS).

The default is via text message (SMS).

9. Google will send you a code to the mobile cell phone number entered. The code will start with the letter G- followed by a series of numbers.








Enter the numbers from that text message into the screen shown and click next.



10. A confirmation page will show that you have entered the correct code and may now turn on 2-Step Verification. Click Turn On.

11. Check that your settings page now reads 2-Step Verification is ON.