Student College Email - Activating your Account

Overview

Step-by-step guide on logging into your College Account email and M365 Copilot, including setting up recovery/verification methods.

locate your College Account - Bigfoot Email address and password initially sent out to students using the preferred email within ctclink. The email might be in your junk or spam folder and will come in from Student-Accounts@ccs.spokane.edu,
The email will look like the following:

NOTE: If you can’t locate this email, please call the IT Support Center:(509)533-4357 option #2 during our current hours of Monday-Friday from 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM.

We will perform an identity verification process before assisting with locating the account and resetting the password. We don’t have access to these initial emails and can’t resend them.
Open your preferred web browser and navigate to scc.spokane.edu or sfcc.spokane.edu, select the Student Tools, and then Office 365/Email.
This link should navigate to office.com, where you will then select Sign in.

NOTE: If you log on to an SCC/SFCC Student Computer that is onsite with your Bigfoot Account and use Edge you will not have to do anything beyond this point. If off-site, please continue with the following instructions.
The following screen will ask for your College Account email address, you will type in your full Bigfoot Email address and then select Next.
The following page will ask for the Bigfoot account password. Once the account password has been typed in select Sign in.
If everything was entered correctly then students logging on for the first time will be prompted "More information required." Your organization needs more information to keep your account secure. Select Next.
The following page will ask users to set up recovery/verification methods for their account. We suggest the use of a cellular number that the student will have access to when trying to log on to the site. Whatever option the student chooses to setup they need to have access to during the process , and if they would like to avoid this step please select Skip setup.

NOTE: Students could also select the I want to set up a different method option and select other options for verification.
While setting up this verification method you will be prompted to run through a test, the following are screenshots of this process.
Every time you sign in on a new device and web browser you will be prompted with the following screen to reduce the number of times you are asked to sign in. Feel free to select Yes unless this is a shared account or KIOSK device.
Once successfully logged on you will be taken to M365 Copilot where all your apps reside. Click on Apps and then the Outlook icon and this will open up your email.

Still need assistance?

Call the IT Support Center:(509)533-4357 option #2