Your campus, online.

It's Vista Grande's own set of platforms, all under one login. Eight are open right now: club sites, personal sites, the campus wiki, a library for student writing, the Spartan Synergy Network, a campus idea board, the school newsroom, and the campus gallery. Campus video is next.

Anyone at Vista Grande can use it. If you have a @cguhsd.org email, you sign in once and reach every one of them. Clubs get their own space too. You don't need to know how to code to use any of it. See all the platforms →

No. It is free to use. Any club, student, or teacher at Vista Grande can sign up and use everything without paying, and there are no ads. Right now I cover the hosting bills myself.

The longer term plan is for the clubs that join to split those costs evenly between them. Paying is optional, so no one is blocked from signing up. But those contributions are what will actually keep the platform running as it grows.

You type your school email and we send a six-character code to your inbox. Enter the code and you're in. There's nothing to memorize, and nothing for someone to guess. That one sign-in is all you need: students and staff get into every platform we offer with it, now and as new ones launch.

If you sign in from a device we haven't seen before, you get an email about it. If that wasn't you, the email is how you find out.

Your published pages live on a separate domain from the login, so a page you build can never reach your account. We don't sell anything and we don't run trackers for advertisers. You decide what goes up, and you can take it down whenever you want.

A few things happen without you having to remember them. Every photo you upload anywhere on the platform has its location data stripped out before it is stored, along with the device serial a phone writes into the file. Most of what students post starts out school only, which means a reader has to sign in with a Vista Grande account to see it at all. Read the privacy policy →

Yes. This is a school platform, so what goes up holds to the same standards as anything else at Vista Grande. Keep it school-appropriate. Everything you publish or upload runs through automatic checks before it goes live: the words, the pictures, the thumbnails, any video, and the file names too. The checks also make sure a file is really the kind of file it claims to be.

The rules that apply everywhere are in the community guidelines, and each space adds a few of its own on top, because a wiki article and a photo of a classmate are not the same problem.

A person, not a script, makes the call on anything taken down for good, and you can appeal it.

In one place. Policies and Guidelines holds the terms of service, the privacy policy, and the community guidelines for the platform plus each space on it. They're written to be read, not to be survived, and every one of them says when it last changed.

If you want to know how the thing works under the hood, that's the handbook, and it's public too.

Every post, comment, article, and profile has a report control on it. Use that one where you can, because it tells us exactly what you're reporting. For anything else, the report page takes it, with or without an account.

If it's about your own account, or you're appealing something that was taken down, open a ticket from Support and it stays a conversation until it's sorted.

If you found a security hole, please don't post it. The bug bounty page has the private way to send it in.

It keeps working. One student built VGSpartans and still maintains it, but it's set up so it doesn't lean on any single person. The code is public, the way it runs is written down, and the day-to-day keeps going on its own.

If you ever want out, you can export your site and take everything with you.

A regular site builder only gives you the features it already ships with, and that's the end of it. Here you can ask for what you want. Tell me and I'll build it, and you're never charged for it. If you'd rather build it yourself, the code is open for anyone to work on. And when one student adds something, every site on the platform can use it. Your pages also live on the school's own space at vgspartans.org, with no ads and no upsell waiting down the line.

Campus video is next, then a place to browse what students have built, a campus map, class and club elections, and a letter to your future self that stays sealed until graduation. See everything live and on the way →

And yes, please suggest things. VGSpartans grows from what students actually need. Tell us on the report page and it goes on the list, or put it on VGAgora where the whole school can back it.

A staff advisor is added to the club, and from their console they launch the site and seat the team. They add members by school email and give each a role: webmaster, treasurer, secretary, or a custom one, up to three people per role. Each member signs in and lands in their own console. If your club is small, one person can hold more than one role.

Every club runs on the roles the advisor seats. A webmaster builds and runs the site, a treasurer keeps the books, and a secretary keeps the meeting records. Each of those has a console built for that job, so a treasurer opens a ledger and a secretary opens the minutes rather than both landing in the same dashboard. The advisor can add custom roles too, and put up to three people in each one. Nobody sees more than their role needs.

The advisor holds the club steady from year to year. Members do the day-to-day in their roles, and the club owns everything they build, not whoever ran it this year. When someone graduates or steps down, the advisor re-seats the role in a couple of clicks and the next person picks up where the last left off.

Events, news, your officer roster, photos, and posts written like a blog. The webmaster edits all of it from one dashboard, with no coding, and picks the look of the site. Your club gets its own address at club-name.vgspartans.org.

No, and this one isn't a setting a student can trip over. A club site reaches the public web only when the advisor launches it. Until then you can build the whole thing, fill it in, and look at it, and nobody outside the club sees it.

It's your own page on the school's site, under vgspartans.org. Every student gets one, and teachers get the exact same personal space, not a class page. It's yours to build, and it stays yours.

Whatever you want to show: a portfolio, a project, or a page for something you care about. You shape it from one dashboard and publish when it's ready. Nothing goes live until you say so.

Not by default. A teacher's site is a personal space first, the same one a student gets, so it's a place for who they are and what they make. If a teacher wants to use theirs for class, they can, but that's their call.

No. You build and edit in private, preview it however you like, and it only reaches the public web when you publish. You can unpublish or take the whole thing down whenever you want. A published page is on the open web, though, so treat it like one: it's the wrong place for your phone number, your address, or your schedule.

No. Your profile at /people is the short card other Spartans see across the platform. Your site is the thing you build and design yourself. You can have one without doing much with the other.

Anyone with a school account can edit an open page or add a photo. A few important pages are locked so only trusted editors change them, but most of the wiki is open for the whole campus to improve.

Every version is saved, so a bad edit gets rolled back in a click and nothing is really lost. That's the point of a wiki: a good article only gets better, because the whole history is there to fall back on.

No. The editor works like a word processor, so you type and format and it looks like what you'll get. If you already know wikitext you can still write it, because that's what the page is stored as underneath.

Yes. You can drop images right into a wiki article as you write, so a page about a club, an event, or a spot on campus can actually show it, not just describe it.

The wiki has its own full-text search that reads what Spartans have actually written, not just the titles. Look up a topic and it finds the article, and the more the campus adds, the more there is to find.

Only carefully, and the VGWiki guidelines spell out where the line is. Anyone can edit anyone's article here, which is exactly what makes a page about a classmate a different problem from a page about the gym.

Your own stories, poems, and essays, posted a chapter at a time. Give your work a cover, build it up as you go, and it sits in the campus library next to what other Spartans are writing.

Spartans. VGWrites is signed-in only, all of it, so nothing you post here is on the open web and none of it turns up in a search engine. The audience is the school and only the school.

Readers can leave kudos and comments on what you post, so you hear what landed and what people want more of. You can read and cheer on other Spartans the same way. Comments are moderated like everything else here.

Fiction can go to hard places, and the VGWrites guidelines say where that stops on a school platform. Work carries a rating so a reader knows what they're opening, and rating it honestly is part of posting it.

Yes. When a writing contest opens, you can enter your work right from VGWrites. Watch for them and put your best chapter forward.

It's where you ask the whole school for help: a homework question, a club to join, a ride home, or the jacket you left in the gym. You post to a circle, add a photo if it helps, and the Spartans who know chime in.

Only signed-in Spartans. Synergy is closed to the open web from end to end, which is what makes it a reasonable place to say you left your bag in the 300 building.

Post your question to a circle and other Spartans answer. When one of them actually solves it, you mark that answer as the one that worked, so the next person with the same question can see it right away.

Yes. You can put a photo on a Synergy post when a picture says it better, whether you're showing a problem, pointing to a place, or describing what you lost. Synergy has its own search too, so look for a question before you ask it.

Your phone number, your address, or your class schedule. A ride home is arranged in the open, and the VGSynergy guidelines are worth two minutes before you post one. Never send a photo of yourself to someone because they asked, and don't let anyone move the conversation off the platform.

Homework help means help. Handing over your answers isn't it, and neither is asking someone to do the work for you.

Staff move it along in the open: under review, planned, done, or declined. Every move lands on the idea's own timeline, and a decline always comes with a written reason. Nothing quietly disappears.

They can back it. There are no downvotes on the board, so an idea rises by how many people want it. If someone disagrees, the comments are the place to say why.

While it's still open, yes, it's yours to fix or pull. Once staff pick it up, the words everyone backed become part of the record, so edits and deletes freeze from there.

One about a thing, not a person. "The 400 building bathrooms need soap" is an idea. Naming a teacher you don't like is not, and the VGAgora guidelines are direct about the difference. Say what should change and why, and it'll get backed.

Student reporters, seated on the staff the way a real newsroom seats them. Every story carries a byline, so filing one means telling the school you stand behind what it says. If a reader or a source questions something you wrote, your editor can come to you for how you know it.

You draft and submit. An editor reads it and either sends it back with notes or approves it. Only then do the safety checks run, on the words, the photos, and any video. A story is public only once an editor approved it and those checks cleared.

An editor sending your story back isn't a knock on you. It's the part of a newsroom that keeps the paper worth reading.

Both are possible, and it's decided per story. School only means a reader has to sign in with a Vista Grande account. Public means the open web, and search engines can keep a copy, so that call is usually an editor's. When in doubt a story stays school only.

The paper says so. A correction is added to the story rather than slipped in silently, because readers who saw the mistake deserve to see the fix. Tell the editor first; if it needs to go past the newsroom, use the report page. The VGNews guidelines also set out what is never a story here, including rumors, someone's private life, and screenshots from a group chat.

The Campus wall is where a seated photo crew covers what happens at this school: games, rallies, and ordinary days. The Arts wall is open to every Spartan, with no seat on the crew and nobody's permission needed, for drawings, paintings, digital work, photography, or a picture of something you built.

Open the photo, use the report control, and pick That's me, please take it down. It's the first option on the list.

You don't have to explain, and nobody will ask you to. It isn't a complaint you have to win, it's a request that gets acted on. If you'd rather not use the form, tell the yearbook adviser or any curator in person and they'll file it for you.

Everything starts school only, so a reader has to sign in with a Vista Grande account. On the campus side, only a curator can make an album public, and it's decided for a whole album at a time. On the arts wall you make that call yourself, one piece at a time. When in doubt it stays school only.

No. A phone writes the exact coordinates into the file, along with a device serial and a hidden second copy of the picture that survives a crop. All of it is stripped on the way in, before the photo is stored, here and on every other upload on the platform.

Because a photo of a classmate who didn't post it is not a thread. A comment box pointed at someone who never volunteered is a harassment surface with a nicer name, so there isn't one and there isn't going to be. The arts wall does have comments, because that work was put up on purpose. You can appreciate a photo on either wall: it's a count, and nothing else.

Yes, if you say so in the caption. Passing it off as drawn or shot by hand is what's not allowed. Everything else on the wall has to be your own work too: reposting someone else's art, credited or not, is what gets a piece pulled fastest.