How to activate UCC Institutional Emails, Sandwich and Regular Students

The university encourages students to make extensive use of our institutional emails, especially for academic correspondence. In view of this, institutional emails have been generated for students to enable them to access the university’s e-learning platform.

Please kindly Share this Article on WhatsApp, Facebook and other Social Media Platform Using the Button Below. Thanks For Sharing🙏

If you have activated your institutional email previously and it is the same as the email below, you are not part of this activation process. otherwise, follow the steps below to activate your email.

Table of Contents

Step 1

First, log in to your portal using the student ID and Password. Once you are on your portal, you’ll see “INSTITUTIONAL EMAIL ACTIVATION – CODE STUDENTS”, below which you see Click here for more details, click on it and go to the next page.

On the next page, you’ll be displayed with your email and default password. Copy them and follow the next steps below. Now open a new tab on your chrome browser and then go to gmail.com

Step 2

Enter your institutional email address in full and click next. Your institutional email and the default password are at the top of the page.

Step 3

Next, Enter the default password. Note that your password is different from everyone. Click next to continue.

Step 4

The page displays a welcome message with the Terms and Conditions of using the Institutional Email Service provided with the help of Google. Click the Accept button to continue.

Step 5

Create a new password and confirm the same in the input boxes provided. Note that this password change makes the default one given to you invalid. Make sure you type a password that is strong and easy to remember. Click the change password and continue.

Step 6

The next page prompts you to verify your account. Click the next to continue.

Step 7

Enter your new password to continue. Note that the password being asked here is not the default password generated for you.

Step 8

The following steps are optional, but it is important to do them so you protect your account. If you do not want to do that, please go ahead to click the CONFIRM button, otherwise, click the UPDATE button.

Step 9

Enter your mobile phone number. Click next to continue.

Step 10

Click on the OK link to receive a text message from Google.

Step 11

Confirm your mobile phone number by entering the text (G-######) provided in the text message sent to your phone.

Step 12

You can skip the recovery email part by clicking Skip or continue with it. After all, is done you should see this confirmation page. Click done to finish with the activation. Make good use of your institutional emails. Good luck.

NB: CoDE STUDENTS should read this document for instructions on how to log on to the e-learning platform.