Got Gmail?
IMPORTANT NOTICE!!
Clark College has changed the student email accounts so they will all have improved usernames effective December 15th. Google apps are included too, which can be quite useful and free as well. If you already have a personal email account, it’s still a very good idea to activate your student email and simply set up Gmail forwarding so you don’t miss any important notices, requests, or reminders from your instructors in Moodle.
To get your Clark student email and Google apps account set up with your new username, first download these instructions:
Then enter your Student ID number and Global PIN on the new “Current Student” site, which is a tab accessible on nearly every Clark College webpage (or use the link below). Note, if you have already been using a student Gmail account with a username that includes part of your SID, you will need to enter your SID and global PIN on the Current Student site to discover your new username and email address, which will then allow you to login to your student Gmail account:
If you have any trouble, check the Student Email webpage for more information and details about how to contact Gmail Support.
NOTE: You’ll discover that your Moodle accounts will automatically have your student email address built into new profiles by default. This could present a problem if you haven’t activated it! As many students have reported, missed emails can have a big effect on grades in a course and they have urged us to make that point more clear.
I still can’t access my e-mail account. I activated it last year, logged in one time and have been unable to sucessfully access the account again. I have just changed the password, under current students, according to the instructions, and still can not access the account. I shouldn’t have to contact an administrator to make this work. This has been the hardest e-mail account I have ever had to establish. It shouldn’t be this difficult, students don’t have this kind of time.
We’ll make sure that your comment reaches someone who can help you with this, Rita. If you’d also like to contact the Gmail support desk yourself, you can send them an email: Gmail Support
In the meantime, be sure to check your email address in Blackboard or Moodle and change it right away to something that will work so your instructor can contact you when they need to. Here’s some information about why and how to do that: http://www.smartpenguin.org/smartpenguin/2011/01/04/mail-fail/
I’ve been using the same yahoo account in blackboard and moodle since last year with no problems. A fellow student informed me that we will be required to set up a gmail account for things to work properly. Is this true?
As far as Blackboard and Moodle are concerned, your Yahoo account will continue to work, Larissa. The main point we’re trying to make is that students need to make sure they have a working email address in their profiles. All new student Blackboard and Moodle accounts have a built-in student email address that they can either change or go activate.
As for your notices from the college about registration or other important business that you probably shouldn’t miss, absolutely, you should activate your student Gmail account and just set up forwarding to your Yahoo address so you only have to check your mail in one place.
Any tips or advice for how to include/enable my @students.clark.edu on my Android smartphone? Even though the account is with Google, it doesn’t seem to want to integrate the same way my @gmail.com address does.
Thanks.
I wish we did have some tips for you on that, Jim, but we don’t setup the student Gmail accounts, so we’ve sent your question to the staff that do… You can also try visiting the student Gmail tech support staff in the library computer lab (upstairs) and show them what is going on when you try to enable your student email with the Android. If they can’t help you get it going, they might be able to connect you with someone who can.
I’m also having the same problem plus I am unable to setup google apps with the student account even though I can access them if I go through the Clark student email website.
We sent your questions to the student Gmail support crew as well, Tara, so you should both receive a reply back from them. If not, here’s their contact info…
Visit Gmail support desk: upstairs library computer lab
Call: 360-992-2010
Email: gmailhelp@students.clark.edu