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Set up your student account and email

Five steps, about ten minutes, all on your phone.

Do all five before your first day, and work through them in order: each one needs the one before it.

Start with step 1

Your sign-in for all of this is StudentNumber@student.dncolleges.ac.uk. So student number 40044004 signs in as 40044004@student.dncolleges.ac.uk

Steps 1 to 4

Set up your account

Open each step as you get to it. You need the one before it done first.

About 1 minute

When you enrolled you gave us a personal email address. Open that inbox, not your college one: you don’t have a college one yet.

Find the email from us. It has the two things you need:

  • your student number
  • a temporary password

Keep that email open or somewhere you can get back to it. You’ll use both in Step 3.

About 1 minute

Authenticator is the app that proves it’s you when you sign in. Install it now, then leave it alone.

Don’t set it up yet. It can’t do anything until Step 4, once your password is sorted.

Get Authenticator on Google PlayGet Authenticator on the App Store

About 3 minutes

Go to portal.office.com and sign in with your college email address and the temporary password from that email. You’ll be asked to change the password straight away.

Open portal.office.com

Your new password has to:

  • be at least 8 characters long
  • use both UPPERCASE and lowercase letters
  • include at least one number or symbol

Don’t use:

  • anything personal: your name, your birthday, your student number
  • words to do with IT, “college” or “password”
  • place names, including Doncaster

Three random words with a number and a symbol on the end works well, like BeatDrumsSoda2? Write yours down somewhere safe until you know it by heart.

The portal might ask you to set up multi-factor authentication right after this. If it does, follow what’s on screen. If it doesn’t, carry on to Step 4.

Note: when using your mobile to set up your account, you need to click ‘Pair your account to the app by clicking this link’, and then following the instructions. This will pair your account to the MFA without needing to scan a QR code.

About 3 minutes

Now connect the app you installed in Step 2. This is how you verify it’s you when you’re on site.

  1. Go to mysignins.microsoft.com/security-info and sign in with your college email and your new password.
  2. Choose Add sign-in method, then Authenticator app.
  3. Open Authenticator on your phone and scan the QR code shown on screen.
  4. Approve the test notification that arrives on your phone. That confirms it’s linked.

Open your security info page

Note: when using your mobile to set up your account, you need to click ‘Pair your account to the app by clicking this link’, and then following the instructions. This will pair your account to the MFA without needing to scan a QR code.

Step 5

Install your Day 1 apps

Four apps, about four minutes. Sign in to each one with your college email address and your new password. You need all four on your first day.

Microsoft Teams

Your classes, your timetable and messages from your tutors.

Google Play App Store

DN Connect

Your timetable, your targets and college updates.

Google Play App Store

Outlook

Your college email, on your phone.

Google Play App Store

DNCG Pocket

Campus loyalty and payments.

Google Play App Store

That's everything done: your account is ready and we'll see you on your first day.

Something not working?

The Help Desk can sort it. Email helpdesk@dncolleges.ac.uk