Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

We are going to work on using PCC email today.

Jade, Basem, Nancy, Mohammad, ?

If you know your username and password, go to my.pcc.edu on the computer and log in.  Send Davida an email.  Davida’s email address is davida.jordan@pcc.edu.  The subject of your email will be “Computer Lab.”  In the body of the email, write five or more sentences about what you are doing right now.  Use the present progressive.  For example:

I am sitting in the computer lab.

                I am typing on the computer.

                I am not driving a car.

Send the email to Davida.  Check your “sent” folder to make sure you sent it.  Then sign out.

Then log in to your PCC email on your phone.  Enter your password carefully!  Send Davida another email.  Write 5 different sentences in the present progressive about what you’re doing right now.

After you have logged in to your PCC email on the computer and your phone and sent Davida two emails, you have a choice:

You can do grammar practice:

Click this link:  Simple Present vs. Present Progressive.  Watch the two videos and complete the four exercises.

OR

You can help other students with their PCC email.

It’s your choice!

2.  If you don’t know how to use PCC email or you forgot your password, stop and wait!

This is a list of every student’s PCC email address.

Find your name on the list.  Copy your email address on the small card from Davida or Joan.

You can copy and paste with the keyboard or with the mouse.

Highlight your email address and press these keys at the same time:  ctrl + c.    ctrl + c = copy

Click where you want to add your email address and press these keys at the same time:  ctrl + v.  ctrl + v = paste

Or you can highlight your email address and right click to copy.  Click where you want to add the email address and right click to paste.

Eagle eyes are very important with this.  If you copy and paste, everything will be correct.  If you type it yourself, you might make a mistake!

You need to complete many steps to set up your PCC email or reset your password.  Pay attention!

Sometimes you will enter your PCC email address.  Sometimes you will enter your username.

What’s the difference?

This is my username:  davida.jordan

first name dot last name

no spaces

no capital letters

This is my email address:  davida.jordan@pcc.edu

first name dot last name at pcc dot edu

no spaces

no capital letters

1. Go to my.pcc.edu on the computer and log in with your email address.  Paste your email address from the list above.
2. Then click “I need help.”
3. Click “First time user.”
4. You will enter your username again.  This is firstname.lastname.  No spaces.  No @pcc.edu
5. You will select the circle to send a code to your personal email.
6. Check your personal email on your phone.  Do you see an email from PCC?
7. There is an access code in the email.  It is many numbers.  Copy the numbers onto the computer.
8. Now you will create a password.  Everyone will have the same password.  Here it is:

November52025

No CAPS LOCK – Look at your keyboard.  Do you see a light?  No light!

capital N – Use Shift + N

no spaces

Write down your password in your notebook.

Take a picture of your password.

You will type it two times on the computer.  You must type it the same way both times.

Go slowly! 🐢Type with eagle eyes! 👀

If everything worked, you are ready to log in to your PCC account with your PCC email address and password.  Do you remember?

You will have to type these over and over, the same way every time.  Memorize them!

3.  Send Davida an email.  Davida’s email address is davida.jordan@pcc.edu.  The subject of your email will be “Computer Lab.”  In the body of the email, write five or more sentences about what you are doing right now.  Use the present progressive.  For example:

I am sitting in the computer lab.

                I am typing on the computer.

                I am not driving a car.

Send the email to Davida.  Check your “sent” folder to make sure you sent it.  Then sign out.

4.  Then log in to your PCC email on your phone. Go to my.pcc.edu on Chrome on your phone and log in with your PCC email address.   Enter your password carefully!

This is your password:  November52025

Send Davida another email.  Write 5 different sentences in the present progressive about what you’re doing right now.

If you make too many mistakes entering your username and password, PCC will block you! 🙁

For this reason, please go slowly!  Let Davida and Joan help you.

Did you write your PCC email address on the little white card?  Put it in a safe place.

Did you write your PCC password in your notebook?  Did you take a photo?  Did you memorize it?

Congratulations!

Now you can do many more things at PCC, including getting free food from the Panther Pantry!