Email and Office365

MFA is a common but effective security tool to help keep your SCTCC account and information safe, adding an additional layer of protection using more than one verification method (such as only using a password), preventing cybercriminals, hackers, and “bad actors” gaining access to your personal information, including your email, documents, grades, or financial aid information.

MFA will first be used when logging into Microsoft Office 365, which includes Outlook (email), Word (papers, letters, etc.), Excel (spreadsheets), and PowerPoint (presentations). In addition, MFA will be used when accessing your OneDrive, where documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or any other files should be saved.

The first time you access Office 365 applications and resources on your desktop, mobile device, or using a web-based browser, it will ask for your Login ID and password. 

If you are a student, use YourStarID@go.minnstate.edu.

Faculty and staff, use YourStarID@minnstate.edu.

You will then be prompted by the system letting you know there is additional information needed – this starts MFA verification when you click “Next.”

Depending on which ways you want MFA to validate your login, the system will prompt how it is contacting you to verify it’s really you logging in.

Once you have responded or entered the correct information, you are in!

You can dramatically reduce how often MFA prompts you, as it can “remember” your MFA setup from the devices you use exclusively and are responsible for, such as a St. Cloud Technical & Community College device personally issued to you or your personally owned device (mobile, home computer, etc.).

Do not use this feature on any public device, such as a shared computer or kiosk anyone can use, including public computers in the library or other locations at St. Cloud Technical & Community College.

To have MFA “remember,” after you login the first time and use MFA, click on the “Don’t show this again” check box and then click “Yes.”

To find your my.sctcc.edu email address, login to the Outlook Online.

Click on your account profile picture in the upper right corner. Click My Account in the dropdown menu. Your e-mail address will show up under your name. It should follow the firstname.lastname@my.sctcc.edu format.

1. Login to your campus computer as you normally do, using your StarID.
2. Open your Outlook email
3. Enter your username: YourStarID@minnstate.edu
4. Enter your password: your StarID password.

Tip: Change Your Contact List to Default to SCTCC

1. Log into your Office 365 account using your email and your StarID password.
   • Student Username: YourStarID@go.minnstate.edu
   • Employee Username: YourStarID@minnstate.edu
2. Select OneDrive, which is found on the Navigation Bar at the top, right of the window.
3. When you select OneDrive for the first time, Office 365 will ask if you want to allow others to see certain activities in the Newsfeed – you can select “No Thanks”.
4. Office 365 will then set up your OneDrive storage area – this may take several minutes.