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- 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.
- Activate Your WSU E-mail Account
- Determine your WSU e-mail address. DDP requires that students activate their @wsu.edu e-mail address.You are assigned a WSU @wsu.edu e-mail address automatically after you create your WSU Network ID (NID). Your WSU e-mail address would be: 'your WSU Network ID'@wsu.edu.
- Forward your @wsu.edu e-mail account. On the WSU Web site, go to myWSU;
select "Email forwarding" shown in the lower right navigation bar under
"Email and Web." Follow the directions for forwarding your e-mail.
Note: Regional campus students with @tricity.wsu.edu or @vancouver.wsu.edu addresses are required to forward their @wsu.edu addresses to their regional campus addresses. - Open your @wsu.edu messages. Your @wsu.edu messages will be waiting for you in the inbox of the forwarded account.
- 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.
- 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)
- Take the Blackboard Tutorial
- Take the Blackboard online tutorial to learn how to navigate your classes before they start.
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