Mesa Community College Business and Information Systems Create an MCC Email Account

All students must create a Mesa Community College (MCC) email account. Your MCC email username and password will also grant you access to MyMCC and Blackboard. There are also instructions for students who already have an MCC email account but have forgotten their username and/or password. Some students may aleady have a personal email account they prefer to use, so the document also includes instructions on how to forward your MCC email to your preferred email account. After creating the account students will have an email account and also gain access to MyMCC and Blackboard, and appear in their instructor's electronic roster.

FERPA Note:
Before sending a message, students must be sure they are using their MCC email account. Based on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) that protects student privacy, grades and personal information can only be released to the student; therefore, students must use their personal MCC email account when communicating with their instructors or other college personnel to assure information being released is going directly to the student.

1. Find and open Internet Explorer using the Start button.

2. In the address box enter www.mc.maricopa.edu/apps/mymcc/ 

3. Click on the link to Create MCC Mail Account.
   If you have created an account in the past, but have forgotten your username 
   or password, click on the Forgot Username or Forgot Password option.

4. The following information will need to be entered:

      Student Id:  (This is your assigned 8 digit student id in My.Maricopa.edu)

        Birthday:  Your birthday is used as a PIN.  
                   Select the Month, Day, and Year from the drop down menus.

        Username:  (Enter the desired username).
                    The username must be between 4 and 8 characters.
                    Usernames must begin with a letter.
                    Usernames may only contain lowercase letters (a through z) and/or numbers (0 through 9).
                    If select a username that is already in use, you'll be asked to select another one.
                    Your email address will be: username@mesacc.edu

        Guidelines: Click on the check box to indicate you have read the Username Guidelines.
			   
        Password:  (Enter a password code to access your account after it is created.)
Confirm Password:  (Re-enter the password to verify you have typed in correctly.)

         a. Your password must contain at least one lowercase letter.
         b. Your password must contain at least one uppercase letter.
         c. Your password must contain at least one number.
         d. Your password cannot contain any special characters.
         e. Your password must be between seven and twenty characters.

   Click on Submit

   The account should be created for you in 20 minutes or so.
   If you encounter difficulties, please call the MCC Technical Support at (480) 461-7217. 

5. You will be able to access your email account in the lab and from home 
   or other locations through mail.mesacc.edu.
   MCC uses Google's web based email application that allows you to read 
   and send email, and it works with most internet browsers.

6. Forwarding Your MCC E-mail.

   If you already have an email account with another provider and
   would like to only use one email account, you can forward your
   MCC email to your preferred email address.  However, you must
   use the email username and password to access Blackboard and MyMcc.
   If you do not wish to forward your email, then skip this step. 

      1. Go to mail.mesacc.edu
      2. Login if necessary.
      3. Click on Settings located at top of the page next to your username.
      4. Under Settings, click on Forwarding and POP/IMAP. 
      5. Click on Forward a copy of incoming mail.
      6. Enter the email address to forward to in the text box.
      7. Click on the drop down list to view the optiosn for the incoming mail,
           and select delete Gmail's copy.
      8. Click on Save changes at the bottom of the page.
      9. Test the forwarding address was entered correctly by sending
           yourself an email message from your preferred account to 
           your MCC email address:  username@messcc.edu
     10. If it was entered correctly you should receive the email message
            back in your preferred account.

7. After you have created the email account, your email address will show up
   in your class's email listing in MyMCC.  You can verify that your account was    
   created by clicking on MyClasses in MyMCC (www.mc.maricopa.edu/apps/mymcc/).
   You will need to login using the username and password entered above.

8. Quit Internet Explorer.

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Revised: 05/01/2009 - www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d07/cis105/email.html