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First Steps -TCC Online

Getting Started: New and Returning Online Students

  1. Review all  information located under New User, Resources for Students and Blackboard.
    • Online students must  be proficient users of the World Wide Web and email and must  provide their own reliable, regular access to the Internet (and may use TCC open computer labs as well).
    • Online students must  fulfill and adhere to all items designated as Student Responsibilities, including but not limited to, all listed technical and skill requirements, plus any additional  requirements listed on individual course sites.
    • Review the Strategies for Success to help determine whether online education fits your lifestyle and learning styles.
    Enroll with TCC
  2. Lookup your Student ID. New Student ID's are generally not available until 24 hours after the time of registration.
    If it is past the first day of classes and has been 24 hours since you registered and you are still unable to verify your ID contact Technical Support immediately.
  3. starred.gif (874 bytes) Students must send to each class professor no later than the last day to add or change registration for their course all the following information in the body of a properly formatted email message including the following:.
    1. Your full name as registered and the name by which you would like to be known among your classmates (for example, Pat might want to be called Patty)
    2. Class identification (for example, PSY 201 H09B)
    3. Your VCCS provided Web-Email Address.(double check spelling and spacing)
    4. Copy and paste the following statement into a separate email message to each online professor:
      "I have visited the Course Web and/or Blackboard site and have read the class schedule, requirements, and policies. I have regular, reliable access to the Internet and email. I have reviewed the Resources for Students and New User information located on the DTLS website and can fulfill and adhere to all items designated as Student Responsibilities, including but not limited to, all listed technical and skill requirements."


For information about all TCC classes by all delivery methods, see TCC Class Schedules and TCC Course Descriptions.

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