{"id":450,"date":"2023-04-26T07:31:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T07:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/?page_id=450"},"modified":"2025-03-27T20:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:51:21","slug":"my-viu-ca-email-account","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/computer-help\/my-viu-ca-email-account\/","title":{"rendered":"@my.viu.ca Email Account"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a VIU student, you\u2019ll have access to a personal @my.viu.ca email account. This account can be used to sign up for various software deals available only to enrolled students, such as Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To start using this email you will first need to <a href=\"https:\/\/ithelp.viu.ca\/TDClient\/169\/ITPortal\/KB\/ArticleDet?ID=10209\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ithelp.viu.ca\/TDClient\/169\/ITPortal\/KB\/ArticleDet?ID=10209\">Setup your computer account<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can access this inbox using <a href=\"https:\/\/outlook.office.com\/mail\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/outlook.office.com\/mail\/\">Microsoft Outlook<\/a> and your VIU computer account credentials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forwarding Email <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you gain access to Microsoft Outlook you also choose to <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/turn-on-automatic-forwarding-in-outlook-7f2670a1-7fff-4475-8a3c-5822d63b0c8e\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/turn-on-automatic-forwarding-in-outlook-7f2670a1-7fff-4475-8a3c-5822d63b0c8e\">forward emails to your personal inbox<\/a> if you prefer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed wp-block-embed-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"how to forward email\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/viu.video.yuja.com\/V\/Video?v=1157839&#038;node=6423720&#038;a=6661623\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Handout: <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/files\/2025\/02\/Forwarding-@my.viu_.ca-email-address-to-personal-email-address.pdf\">Forwarding @my.viu.ca email address to personal email address<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need a hand with this, please contact IT (see <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/important-links-contacts\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"24\">Important Links &amp; Contacts<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a VIU student, you\u2019ll have access to a personal @my.viu.ca email account. This account can be used to sign up for various software deals available only to enrolled students,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"parent":66,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-450","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","empty-entry-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450\/revisions\/992"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}