New Students: Set-up Password. You must set up your password
following the instructions listed here before you can
access Corsair Connect, the SMC student online portal. As a new
student, you should have received a "Congratulations, you
are admitted to SMC" email. Click the "Verify My Email"
button to verify your personal email account. This step is
required to proceed with course enrollment. Once you verify your
email, you will get two follow up emails, "Your SMC Account
Information" and "Your SMC Admission Tasks." Be sure to
check your personal and SMC email frequently for other
updates and information. Your student ID will be in the
"Congratulations" email. Your username and temporary password
will be in the "SMC Account Information" email. Your student
ID is all numbers. Your username is all the characters before the
"@" symbol in your email address. Use your username and
password to log into portal guard. The username and password
provides access to several SMC computer systems using the SMC
sign-on box. Your temporary password expires immediately.
Please click on the "Continue" button to choose a new password.
Enter a new password that follows the rules. The system
will remind you of the rules that make your password
difficult for other people to guess. Any rule violations will
be marked with an "X" and a color change. Your new password
must satisfy the following rules: it must be at least six
characters long, it must not contain any parts of your name,
it must contain characters from at least three of the following
categories: English uppercase characters A through Z, English
lowercase characters A through Z, base 10 digits zero through
nine, non-alphanumeric, for instance, exclamation point,
dollar sign, "@" symbol or percent. This is what you'll see
when your password is successfully set. Confirm your
new password works then click "Continue logging in" to
continue. Pick challenge questions used to verify your
identity. You can choose the questions you would like to
answer from the list of security questions. Several language
translations are provided in the link. Pick challenge questions
used to verify your identity. Each answer has to be at least
four characters long. The same answer for multiple questions is
not allowed. Then press "Continue." You will see a
screen confirming that your "Self-Service Action was
Successful." Then click "Try to continue logging in" to
continue. Add your mobile phone number. If you do not have a
mobile phone click "Permanently Suppress Reminders." You can
link a mobile phone number with your username if you'd like.
This process is called "Enrolling a Mobile Phone." You
can add or delete a mobile phone at any time. If you decide to
enroll a mobile phone number, an SMS message will be sent to your
phone. Look for a message like this. Enter the one time
passcode, or OTP, into the appropriate box. This confirms
that the system has the correct phone number. Then click the
"Continue" button to verify your mobile phone is successfully
linked to your username. You will see another screen telling
you that your "Self-Service Action was Successful." Again,
click "Try to continue logging in" to go to the next step. You
can view the Account Management screen to: change your password,
reset security questions, register a new private non SMC
email, register a new mobile phone, or change one time
passcode delivery methods between email and phone, if
phone is registered. Then click "Logout" at the top right.
Now you can access Corsair Connect with your new password and SMC user name.
Please go to www.smc.edu/cc for Corsair Connect access.