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5. Accessing E-Mail

When you register for a course at any Virginia Community College, you will automatically be given a VCCS email account. This is the official account from which you will send and receive email to and from the college and your instructor.

Accessing Your E-mail

1. Download User Account Information.

2. Go to myGCC

3. Bookmarking your site: If this is your first time accessing your course site, you will want to bookmark this logon screen (place it in Favorites). You will be returning to this site frequently. In Internet Explorer, click on FAVORITES, then ADD TO FAVORITES. In Netscape, click on BOOKMARKS, then ADD BOOKMARK. The next time you need to access your course, look in Favorites or Bookmarks to locate it.

Attachments

Some courses require you to prepare documents with a certain format and appearance. You will send these to your teacher by email attachment or the Digital Dropbox (more about Digital Dropbox later).

General Instructions for Attachments in E-mail

Attach a File:

Create your email message, then
Select
Browse to the file you want to attach
Select the file - then click
Click
Select to send email and file

View an Attachment:

Open the email message then double click on the attachment.

Save an Attachment:

Select the File menu, point to Save Attachments,
and then click the file name OR View the attachment
then select File/Save As/.

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