What is MySCSU? In short, MySCSU is your one stop shop for all of your Southern email, scheduling, campus news/information, and online collaboration/groups. Rather than dealing with endless quantities of junk mail from free email services or paying top-dollar for an online scheduling service, why not get the same full-featured functionality by virtue of being student or staff of Southern? MySCSU is simply the best web-based communication, collaboration, and scheduling resource available to the campus today. Click any of the links below to learn more about the exciting functionality that MySCSU brings to you.

Email
Calendar
Groups

Your MySCSU email account is a full-featured email service accessible both through a standard web browser or via any IMAP-compatible email application (see the Help Desk section for configuration info). Auto-forwarding, auto-replies, message filtering/blocking, and even the ability to collect mail from other email accounts are all possible using your MySCSU email account. Moreover, MySCSU email accounts offers 2-50 times more storage capacity than other (free) email providers such as Hotmail or Yahoo that you may be using now. MySCSU email quotas are currently set to:

Note: 10 megabytes of network file space is available to every staff member and student for the purposes of publishing personal web pages or transferring/storing data files. See the Other section of the technologies page for more information.

Perhaps the most useful of the functions of MySCSU is the great calendar and scheduling features available to you. Rather than just one calendar to add all of your commitments to (work, school, etc), MySCSU offers you the ability to both create (yourself) and subscribe to (from others) any number of different calendars for any number of distinct purposes.

So what does that mean? What exactly can MySCSU calendar do for you?

As a student, you may currently enter in each of your courses and create a custom schedule of classes at the start of each semester. But why bother? MySCSU has already done it for you! Every course you enroll in at SCSU is automatically added as an unique calendar selection available to you under the Current Calendar menu.

Even better is what you can do by grouping individual calendars together. For example, say you want to print out one calendar with all of your classes, but each of your class schedules is listed in a different calendar. The solution to this is to merely create a calendar grouping of all of your current courses. Best of all, you can do this in 3 quick steps:

1. Click the Groups tab within the MySCSU Calendar section.
2. Select and add which classes/calendars you want put in this group
   (click "OK" in the lower-right corner to save).
3. Select the name of the group in your list of calendar groupings to view a combined schedule of all of your currently enrolled courses

And it doesn't stop there... perhaps you also want to:

• Automatically send out email invitations to all your friends about upcoming events
• Share your schedule with everyone in your Stats class
• Create an entirely new group calendar that several people can contribute to and access from any computer in the world

It's all possible (and easy) with your MySCSU calendar!
Check out the MySCSU Help pages for details on how to get started.

In addition to the incredible communication and scheduling power possible through MySCSU's email and calendar sections, you also have at your disposal an immense resource for staying up to date with your favorite campus groups and organizations. Perhaps you even have a group or class that you run now and would like to increase the flexibility of the communications that occur outside of scheduled class/meeting times?

Whatever your reasons, consider MySCSU Groups as the marriage of MySCSU Email and MySCSU Calendar, but on a group/collective basis.

In addition to basic email and scheduling, individual Groups also have access to:

• Custom homepage complete with recent news, a picture, and featured links
• News article section for posting messages of interest to the group
• Group links section for sharing web sites/resources with all members
• Photo library for sharing the group's event, member, or topic pictures
• Email listing for sending messages to individuals or the entire group at once
• Threaded web message board
• Live text chat

An ever-growing community of campus groups and organizations are already available to you right now. To join up, just follow these 3 simple steps:

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Find a group you're interested in from the Groups Index listing	Select the group and click the Join Group button in the Guest View page to send in your request to join	After receiving a message of your acceptance, you will see the group listed under your MyGroups tab