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Technology Tips for Getting Started


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  1. Create your Network ID

    • Your WSU Network ID allows you to access secure WSU Web sites, including your online courses and student account.
    • Set up your Network ID.

  2. Activate Your WSU E-mail Account

    • (Beginning May 4, 2009) Create your Outlook Live @ WSU e-mail address. WSU and DDP will periodically correspond with you via e-mail using your WSU e-mail address, firstname.lastname@email.wsu.edu.
    • To set up your account:
      • Log in to myWSU to get your new e-mail name and temporary password.
      • Visit email.wsu.edu to sign-in and activate your new e-mail account.
      • Important! Be sure to change your new Outlook Live e-mail password as the password provided through the myWSU site is temporary and should be changed.
      • You are ready to use your WSU e-mail account. Just visit email.wsu.edu from any Web browser to login and check your WSU e-mail. This is your official WSU e-mail account, so check it regularly as official WSU communication will be sent to it.
    E-mail Helpful Hints:

    • Check your e-mail messages regularly and often.
    • If you have filtering or spam control in place, set your account to accept all mail from @wsu.edu addresses, and check the “junk mail” folder frequently for messages you do not want filtered as junk mail.

  3. Customize your myWSU pages to get the information you need as a DDP student

    • Set up your WSU myPreferences: choose “Pullman banner, Distance Degree Programs link.”
    • Click on “manage subscriptions” and check the box for “Center for Distance and Professional Education undergraduate student” and any other subscription you’re interested in.
    • Click on the mySubsites and check the My DDP box (which allows you to go directly to My DDP from myWSU without logging in again)

  4. Take the Angel Tutorial


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