MySJC Portal

Yes. The Portal is a secure system that gives you access to your personal and confidential information. Once logged into the Portal, you will have access to other applications without the need to login.

Access to the Portal is through your standard San Juan College username and password. On the Portal login box, you will need to enter the San Juan College domain, sjcnt and a backslash (\) before your username. Example:

If you still cannot login to the Portal, review the OTS Frequently Asked Questions topics under HelpDesk and Passwords before calling the Help Desk.

As a note, You now have the ability to reset your own password from the MYSJC Home Page. Simply go to this link: http://www.sanjuancollege.edu/MySJC and click on the hyperlink on the right side of the page that says Password Reset / Recovery Center  and follow the prompts.

If after logging in you see a Portal page with the heading "Error: Access Denied", please call the Help Desk or send an email to helpdesk@sanjuancollege.edu

Yes. And remember to log out of your computer as well when you are finished. The Portal gives you access to your personal and confidential information and without logging out, others can access this information as well.

From Your San Juan College Computer: To access the MySJC portal from off-campus, you will need to run Cisco's VPN software to create a virtual private network between your computer and the network here on campus. It's very easy to do and many of you already have the Cisco VPN software installed on your computer. OTS has tested the access to the Portal using the VPN connections and it works very well.

From Your Personal or Non-SJC Computer: From a browser, enter the address mysjc.sanjuancollege.edu

Microsoft Internet Explorer. With other browsers, such as Firefox, you can view content and pages but you will not be able to customize the page layout in a personalized view.

The Portal has the ability to store your login information on various applications. An example of this is your access to Exchange or Windows Live email. The first time you access an application, you may see the message Your Single Sign-on credentials are not set. Enter your credentials. or Credentials are not set or are no longer valid. Modify your Single Sign-on credentials. Just click the enter/modify credentials link and enter your username and password for that application. The next time you access the application, you are automatically logged in!

Note: If you password changes, you will again get prompted to enter your credentials for that application.

• Student Email Activation
• Staff Quick Reference Guide
• Faculty Quick Reference Guide
• Student Quick Reference Guide
• Personalizing the Portal

Windows Live Mail is a hosted email service provided by Microsoft and serves as San Juan College's student email system. This email system is San Juan College’s official mode of communication with students and students are responsible for checking emails on a consistent basis for important information, dates and deadlines from all campus offices. Your email address is username@my.sanjuancollege.edu.

Windows Live Mail is also know as Windows Live Hotmail or MSN Hotmail and is commonly referred to simply as Hotmail.

• Windows Live Mail is the Official student email. Your teachers, the professional staff of the college and the administration all use this email as the official way to contact you.
• You have up to 5 Gigabytes of storage in your mailbox
• You have up to 25 Gigabyte of storage in your Skydrive. Skydrive is a virtual drive, accessible anywhere, where you can store photos, sound files and any other type of compter file. Your friends, with permission, can also access on your Skydrive.
• You can store student, friend and family information in your contacts folders, making this information accessible anywhere. You can also import and export from other contact sources.
• You can send and receive meeting requests from users with exchange accounts, which includes all San Juan College faculty and staff
• You can enter other email account information and send and receive emails from other accounts
• You can setup POP3 accounts so that you can get your email using email clients such as Outlook Express or Eudora
• For additional information check out the Windows Live Presentation

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For new students, a student email account has already been created for you at San Juan College. But before you can use this account, it must setup in the MySJC Portal and activated. Follow the simple steps below, from the MySJC Portal, to activate your student email account.

1. Enter your credentials This step stores your San Juan College email address and password so that each time you enter the MySJC Portal, you are notified of unread emails in your student email account.
   • Click the Enter your credentials link in the Windows Live Mail box
     
     
   • On the Provide POP3 Email Account Information screen, enter your San Juan College email address and password and click OK.
     
     
2. Activate Student Email
   • After entering the correct credentials, you will see a Windows Live Mail screen similar to the one below. Click on the message related to the number of unread emails to access your student email account. In the example below, the message is "You have no unread messages"
     
     
   • The first time you login to Windows Live Mail, you will be asked to re-enter your password and to answer several security questions. After you fill in your answers, click OK. You will then be taken to your student email account. A sample activation screen is shown below.
     
     
3. All Done! Now, each time you enter the MySJC Portal, you will see the number of unread email messages in your Windows Live Mail account. Just click on the number of unread messages link to read your student email.
   
   

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After accessing your email for the first time, you’ll be able to log on and check your student email on any computer that has internet access by going to mail.live.com.

1. Once you have provided your credentials and have logged in, at the top right you should see your name. Hover over it and follow the drop down to Options and click.
2. From that page, you’ll see a left side navigation that has General, Mail, etc. Click on the Mail link.
3. Under the “Manage your account” section; you’ll see an “Email forwarding” link. By clicking that and adding your email address that you wish to forward your mail to in the “Where do you want your messages to be sent?” text box and clicking save, you can have all of your mail forwarded to another email account.

Network file storage is provided for students, faculty and staff and can be accessed on campus by using the mapped drive H:, or through the MySJC Portal. Every user can upload and manage their files on their H: drive. The space is fully protected by the security of the network and is backed up on a regular basis.

Network file storage is provided for faculty and student class materials and can be accessed on campus by using the mapped drive S:, or through the MySJC Portal. Students may download class materials from the S: drive. The space is fully protected by the security of the network and is backed up on a regular basis.

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