Access your student email account here.

All students enrolled at RCC will be given a student email address.  After registering at RCC you will be issued a student email account.  Student email is Google mail and can be accessed via the myRCC single signon. To find out your username and password you will need to review the login directions for the myRCC single signon. When communicating with your faculty and staff at RCC, you are required to use the student email system.  Your student email account is your username@email.vccs.edu at the end (ex. kkw2342@email.vccs.edu).

When emailing faculty and staff at RCC, students should always fill in the subject line and provide their name and course information.  Students can set up signature lines in the gmail system.  For more information on getting started with gmail,click here. For more information on the gmail system, please visit the Google support site at http://mail.google.com/support.

If you have problems getting your student email to load properly, please look over the Google Support Site or click here to login to your account.

Netiquette Guidelines

What is Netiquette?

Netiquette is a set of rules for behaving properly online. When you communicate electronically, all you see is a computer screen. You don’t have the opportunity to use facial expressions, gestures, and tone of voice to communicate your meaning; just words.  For this reason you should follow the common rules of netiquette guidelines below:

• Be concise and to the point
• Refrain from abusive or threatening behavior and language.
• When emailing an instructor concerning your class, put the class# and section # in the subject if you want to be sure your instructor actually reads it. If it’s a forward or no subject, it may be deleted. (Remember instructors often teach more than one course).
• Avoid sending forwards to your instructors
• No pornographic sites
• No profanity allowed
• Do not type in all upper-case letters-This is perceived by the reader as “yelling” or “shouting” at them.
• Sign your emails with your name. Your email address may or may not contain your name.
• Do not forward personal e-mail to groups without the original author’s permission.

Emoticons

Here are some of the more popular emoticons. The name comes from a mixture of the words “icons” and “emotions”.

Symbol What It Means
:-)                        Smiley face
;-)                        Wink (light sarcasm)
:->                       Devilish grin (heavy sarcasm)
:-|                         Indifference
8-)                        Eye-glasses
:-D                        Shock of surprise
:-(                         Frown
:-e                         Disappointment
:-/                         Perplexed