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title: "Office 365 - Activating Student Email Account (Student)"
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## Introduction

The student e-mail address will be the address of record, and official school communications on topics varying from Financial Aid, Registration and instructor comments to campus weather outage notifications will be sent to the student e-mail address. Remember to check it often!

**NOTE: **The student will need to wait for 24 hours after registering for a class to activate their email.

## How to activate student email:

1. Log in to the college portal (the portal has a unique name at each school; the portal is your school’s registration system).
2. At the upper right of the portal page will be a row of small icons. One of them will say **student email**.
3. The first time you access student email, you will be prompted to the **Outlook Web App **to set up your **Language & Time Zone. **If you are not directed to this page, click the **Office 365 **icon at the top.
4. Do **not **mark the box titled “Use the blind and low vision experience” unless you use screen reader software such as Jaws.
5. Select your preferred language from the drop-down **Language **menu.
6. Select your time zone from the drop-down **Time Zone** menu (Mountain Time is the 10th item from the top).
7. Click **OK **to continue.
8. Your student e-mail account is now activated and you are logged in for the first time. You will be able to send and receive e-mail for all your college needs.