To make sure you’re ready for the first day of class, check out your student Gmail account and get it set up and ready to go…

Activate Your Free Student Gmail Account

Download Detailed Step-by-step Instructions

For help, contact student Gmail support:
Phone: 360-992-2010
Email: gmailhelp@students.clark.edu
Visit: Cannell Library computer lab technicians (upstairs)

Another change to Moodle over the summer was the adoption of the new student usernames to match your computer lab logins and Gmail accounts… For more information about that change read MoodleMorphosis. 

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:

Student Email How-To (pdf)

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:

Current Students

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.

Be forewarned that we will never send you such a request and you should not click on any links in emails such as this, even if it specifies Blackboard or Moodle.  If you are in any doubt, file a Tech Ticket right away.  For those of you with student email accounts, you may also wish to read this information from Gmail Support:

Messages Asking for Personal Information

Clark College will no longer be communicating with students via paper mail, but will be using free Google Gmail for correspondence instead.  So that you don’t miss out on important registration notices and other information, be sure to activate your pre-assigned Clark student email account using the link below.  If you prefer to get your email at another address, just go ahead and activate your Clark Gmail account (which will look like: yourusername@students.clark.edu) and set it to forward to your preferred address.  eLearning at Clark doesn’t set up email accounts, so if you need help you should contact the people in IT Services who do by either visiting the library computer lab technicians (in the upstairs lab) or emailing Gmail Support. The website linked to below also has a support phone number you may use, plus tutorials and instructions.

GO GREEN WITH GMAIL