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Student Guide to MyCOD's Student Portal |
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Overview of features The MyCOD student portal provides more than just student e-mail. There are multiple tools available to students and faculty to assist them in their academic pursuits. This video gives an overview of what is available within the myCOD student portal. View the video: Overview of features available The most common questions asked by students involve how to find the MyCOD portal and what the log in id and password are. This quick video gives you the answers so you can answer your students questions. View the video: How students log in Electronic mail, or e-mail is one of the most important features found on the myCOD student portal. With it you can send and receive messages from fellow students, faculty members, or any other person with an email account. This video gives an overview of how to use the email feature on myCOD. View the video: Using email Cruiser Alerts is a feature of the MyCOD student portal that allows the college to send out notices about emergencies, school closings, or other important information to the college community. There are three delivery options available within Cruiser Alerts:
Signing up for Cruiser Alerts is optional. Please be aware that depending on the service plan you have with your cell phone provider, you may be charged a fee for each text or voice message sent to your cell phone. This seven and a half minute video explains how to sign up for Cruiser Alerts. View the video: How to use Cruiser Alerts Please note that signing up to Cruiser Alerts is a two-step process: first, activate your Crusier Alert profile, and then select the channels to which you want to subscribe. The dashboard is a customizable access point to all of the features of your myCOD student portal account. It is the page you are taken to whenever you log into the myCOD student portal site. This video gives an overview of the dashboard and explains how to customize it to best fit your personal habits and work preferences. View the video: Customizing the dashboard The tasks tool can be used to create and manage an electronic to-do list within your myCOD student portal account. This video walks your through creating and managing tasks. View the video: Creating and managing tasks. In addition to the tutorials and frequently asked questions found on the welcome page, MyCOD's student portal contains an extensive online help system. The help system can be found in the upper right hand corner of the screen. In the help you will find many handy "Quick Reference Guides" that you can print for your students to help them familiarize themselves with the available features. In addition, students can contact the Student E-mail Help Desk at 630-942-2999, via e-mail at studenthelp@dupage.edu, or in person in the Academic Computing Center for assistance with Campus Cruiser. The hours of the Student E-mail Help Desk are: Monday - Friday 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. The Student Help Desk will only be able to assist with questions regarding use of the MyCOD student portal. For questions about homework, they will be referred to their instructor. Message boards exist for each community on the system and allow for two-way asynchronous communication. Messages can be sorted by date, subject, or discussion thread. Attachments can be added to any posting. This video clip demonstrates some of the features of the message boards. View the video: Message Boards
The shared files tool allows members of a class to share, access, and store class related files. This is a good place for storing data files needed by a class and to store lecture notes and Power Point slides for review by your students. The video clip gives a brief introduction to uploading and deleting files and folders. View the video: Shared Files The user directory allows signed on users to look up the email account name of other users on the system. This video shows you how to look up names in the user directory. View the video: User Directory The photo album tool allows you to upload, store, manage, and share photos. This video shows you how to use the photo album tool. View the video: Photo Albums You can use the archive email feature to make an archive of older messages. View this video for the details. View the video: Archiving Email Changing your Bulk Mail Settings You can use the bulk mail settings to control the amount of SPAM recieved in your inbox. Follow these steps to change the settings. 1. Log on to the MyCOD student portal. Click the e-mail icon on the toolbar. 2. Click on the 'Filters' option in the tool menu.
3. Click on the "Bulk Mail Filter" tab.
4. Change the Personal Filter Level to "High."
5. Click the Save button to save your settings. Want to know more about the MyCOD student portal? Here is the documentation for the system. Academic Tools Guide for Student Members (4/2007) Campus/Content Tools Guide (4/2007) Guide to Community Tools for Hosts (7/2007) Each community has the following set of tools, and all of these tools are described in this document. For Guests (non-members) and Members:
For Members only:
For the community Host / Administrator:
Departments and Class communities have extra features not available to the other communities, and those features are discussed in the Academic Tools Guides. This document is intended only for Hosts / Administrators of a community. Guide to Community Tools for Students (4/2007) Each community has the following set of tools, and all of these tools are described in this document. For Guests (non-members) and Members:
For Members only:
Departments and Class communities have extra features not available to the other communities, and those features are discussed in the Academic Tools Guides. This document is intended for members in a community. Guide to Personal Tools (7/2007) This is the Personal Tools Guide, which provides instructions on using the following:
This guide is intended for all CampusCruiser users. See also: Managing Your Personal Photo Album Managing Your Personal Web Pages Managing Your Profile and Using Directories
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