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ONLINE INFORMATION:
Change your e-mail address in Blackboard and WebAdvisor

Now that you have logged on, you need to do one thing right away: Change your e-mail address in the Grossmont computer systems so that you will be able to get e-mail from the instructor. Believe it or not, you may have been assigned an e-mail address at students.gcccd.edu which you probably don't know about, and that is the address Blackboard will use for you! Or you might have managed to get a non-address like update.email@WebAdvisor. You need to fix this right away -- even before the semester begins.

This task is now a little easier than it used to be, but there's a twist. When you change your e-mail address in WebAdvisor, it will automatically be updated in Blackboard within 24 hours (usually overnight). However, if you change it in Blackboard, the change will NOT be carried over into WebAdvisor; in fact, the old (bad) WebAdvisor e-mail will overwrite the Blackboard e-mail and your changes will be lost! Changes only go one way -- from WebAdvisor to Blackboard -- never in the other direction.

So change your e-mail in WebAdvisor -- and don't worry about Blackboard. (It's not difficult to figure out how to change your e-mail in Blackboard, but it's useless to do so -- within 24 hours your change will disappear because WebAdvisor will change it back.)

By the way, if your e-mail in Blackboard appears to be update.email@WebAdvisor, this means that WebAdvisor has no idea what your e-mail address is; you should change it in WebAdvisor right away.
1
 In your web browser, go to

http://wa.gcccd.edu/

Click on the Log In link (there are two; click on either one).
 WebAdvisor login page
2
 Enter your username (firstname.lastname, such as pat.martinez) and password (your birthday in MMDDYY format).

Click Submit.
 Enter username and password
3
 At the BOTTOM of the page, click the "Account Information" link.
 Click Account Information
4
 Click the "Update Personal Information" link. Click Update Personal Information
5
 Enter your new e-mail address, then click the SUBMIT button.
 Enter your correct e-mail address
6
 You're done! Within 24 hours (usually overnight), WebAdvisor will automatically transfer your new e-mail address into Blackboard. After that, the instructor will be able to send you e-mail easily at your correct address.
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Revised 6/25/09