New Emeritus Students: Set-up Password.
You can pause or rewatch this video if necessary. 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."
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.
Please click on the "Continue" button to choose a new password.
Any rule violations will be marked with an "X" and a color
change.
Your new password must satisfy the following rules.
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
at symbol or percent. Confirm your new password works to
continue. This is what you'll see when your password is
successfully set.
Then click "Continue logging in" to continue.
Enter your password and click the "Continue" button below.
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. Mobile phone registration is
optional. This step might not show up if the mobile phone
system is slow due to usage. If you do not have a mobile phone,
you can click "Permanently suppress reminders" or press
"Skip" to enter at a later time.
You can add, delete, or change a mobile phone number at any time.
If you decide to enroll a mobile phone number, an SMS text
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 will confirm that the system has the correct phone
number.
Your "OTP" will expire after 30 minutes. Then click the
"Continue" button to verify your mobile phone is successfully
linked to your username.
Again, you will see a screen confirming that your
"Self-service action was successful." Then click "Try to
continue logging in" to continue.
Next you'll need to enter a non SMC email address. You may be
required to register your own private email if we haven't
pre-registered your non SMC email for you.
If it's pre registered, you won't see this step. This step
is mandatory so you can receive a one time passcode or "OTP."
Then click the "Continue" button. copy the code sent to
your personal email into the following box. This confirms
that the system has the correct email address.
Remember, your "OTP" will expire after 30 minutes.
You will then 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've reached the Account Management screen. You can view
the Account Management screen to: change your password, reset
security questions, register a new private non SMC email,
change one time passcode delivery methods between email
and phone, if phone is registered, or register a new
mobile phone.
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.