Email has great importance in business and education and its impact on daily communication practices is undeniable and far-reaching. Every day, millions of emails are sent from companies to customers, employees to other employees and students to faculty. Northwest provides each member of its campus community, including its recognized organizations, with University email accounts via Office 365 (Outlook).
Northwest Missouri State University provides email services to faculty, staff and students, as well as, misc. organizational and departmental accounts.
Faculty, staff and students can use the pre-loaded Microsoft Outlook software. which provides calendar and note-taking features, on their campus-issued notebook computers to manage their campus email and Northwest's Information Technology department encourages faculty, staff and students to use Outlook.
Note: You can not change your Northwest email password within email.
While Northwest does not routinely monitor email, email should never be considered entirely private for the following reasons:
BEWARE OF PHISHING SCAMS! THEY WANT YOUR INFORMATION!
You cannot change your Northwest Email password through Office 365. See Understanding Your Northwest Login Credentials.
Northwest Email can be accessed online through the Bearcat Login.
You can also set-up and use Microsoft Outlook on your campus-issued laptop computer or desktop rather than going out to the web. Outlook is available on all campus-issued laptops and desktops and you are encouraged to use this software.
You will login to your Northwest email with your Northwest Network Account username and password. Off-campus you may need to use your full Northwest email address for the username.
If you set-up your email on Outlook, please do so the first time on campus (if at all possible) for ease of set-up. Once set-up, you can use Outlook to receive your Northwest email on your campus-issued laptop without having to use a web browser and going out on the Internet. However, you will need a live wired or wireless connection to receive email through Outlook just as you would to get onto the Internet.
To setup Outlook to work successfully with your Student Email on a non-university provided computer, please the Microsoft Outlook/Office 365 help page.
Accessing your email settings on smart phones can vary depending on the operating system (OS) and phone model, so please view your phone’s instruction manual or its manufacturer’s web site instructions before attempting to set up your email on your smart phone.
Example of Exchange (ActiveSync) account on an iPhone (also applicable for iPad and iPod touch):
Here is another example with an Android smartphone (with built-in Android app):
If the above examples do not help you set-up email on your smartphone successfully, go out to Google and research to see how to set-up your particular phone or stop by the Technology Support Assistant (TSA) Desk on the first floor of Owens Library for hands-on, in-person assistance.
The university's "global address list" is available within Northwest Email accounts so that faculty, staff and students may look up and email other Northwest students, faculty and staff without having to know the person's full email address.
Once you start a new email message in Outlook, you can simply click on the To: and Northwest's entire, scrollable "global address list" will appear. You can also click To: in Office 365 Outlook and type a person's full name in the Search People textbox. Then double-click the name of the person you want to put them in the To: field and click Save.
Yes, you do have personal file storage, which you can access by logging into your Northwest Email. File storage is typically at least 7 gigabytes or more (depends on what Microsoft allocates). To access OneDrive, login into your Northwest Email using a web browser and click on the apps icon (located top left corner).
Northwest students get to keep active Northwest Network Account login credentials, which allows access to Northwest Email, for one full year after withdrawing or graduating from the University. The exception to this rule is for students who are expelled from the University due to disciplinary action.
Northwest faculty and staff Northwest Network Accounts including email access are immediately locked after their last shift or after 5 p.m. on their last full day of scheduled work.
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