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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

    • 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.
    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 Blackboard Tutorial


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