Welcome to the OCCLS web portal!

SSO ACCESS -- If you have an OCCLS email account (ending in @my.occ.edu) AND are designated as a Student, you are now required to enter the web portal using Single Sign-On. All employees who have an @occ.edu email must use SSO as well. This ensures the security of web portal since access to all OCCLS email accounts require 2-Step Verification.

To log into the web portal with SSO, first log into your OCCLS email in a desktop computer's (not mobile) web browser at gmail.com. In the email view of your OCCLS email account, click the 3x3 grid of dots (9 dots altogether) in the upper right corner to view your Google Apps list. Scroll to the bottom of the Google Apps list and click the MyOCCedu app. This should take you right into the web portal without submitting any other credentials. If you happen to be logged into more than one Gmail account within that web browser, you may need to confirm with Google which account you are using to access the web portal. If this happens, Google will present a list of all the Gmail accounts you are logged into and you just need to click on your OCCLS account from that list.

IMPORTANT: Your 2-Step Verification MUST be set up on your OCCLS email account before the IT department will allow the SSO access to work. Confirmation of this is currently done manually, not automatically. If you have done the initial login to your OCCLS email and have properly set up your 2-SV, please send an email to [email protected] to create a Help Desk ticket and let the IT department know it is ready to be checked. If you have run into a problem with setting up your 2-SV on the email account, please check this shared Google doc for information on how you might resolve that. Otherwise, contact the Help Desk at the above email address.

FUTURE STUDENTS (CANDIDATES), please visit the Admissions tab to apply online. If you are currently only under Candidate status, you can only log into the my.occ.edu web portal using your ID number and password. Use the following steps to log in that way.

First, submit your ID number in the username field at the top of this page. When asked for your password, click the "I forgot my password" link to have your password reset if you do not already know it. At that point, you will be required to submit an email address. That address must be the same one OCCLS has in your database record as your primary email. It should be whatever email address you gave the college when you applied OR your OCCLS email address, if your OCCLS email account is set up with the 2-SV and we have added it in your database record as the primary. You should know this from our correspondence about setting up your OCCLS email account. Once you submit the email address, you should receive an email message at that same address within a minute or two. If you do not, it is possible that you didn't submit the email address indicated as primary in your database record or you didn't submit the correct ID number to begin with. The email message you receive will contain a link for resetting your password and must be used within 60 minutes from when the email message was sent to you.

Once your password is reset, you can log into the web portal. On the web portal, click the OCCLS logo in the top center of the page to get back to the home page of the site. Otherwise, you may get a message saying you can't access the page. Then you can log in using your ID number and new password.

If your status in our database changes to Student, you will no longer be able to use the ID number and password method to log into the web portal. At that point you can only use SSO through your OCCLS email account as described above.

Current students, employees, and some alumni must log in using Single Sign-On (SSO). Please see the instructions at the top.

Reactivation students might still be able to use SSO through their OCCLS email account if that account is still active. The current policy for OCCLS student email accounts is that they terminate 18 months after attendance has ended. If you know your OCCLS email account is still active, you should still be able to log into the web portal with SSO via your OCCLS email. If it is no longer active, you would fall under the same guidelines as future students. This may make things a little tricky because our database may still designate you as a Student, which requires SSO to log into the web portal. So, you might only be able to enter the web portal after your OCCLS email account is created again and all set up with 2-SV and recorded as the primary in your database record.

Parents, Guardians, and Spouses -- If a student shares their information with you through our FERPA Permissions form, you will be required to have an OCCLS email account in order to log into the web portal and view their information. The IT department does routine checks to see when students have submitted FERPA permissions and will then create an OCCLS email account for you if you do not already have one. Current students, employees, and some alumni will already have an OCCLS email account which means they can immediately access the web portal with SSO via their OCCLS email account.

If the IT department needs to create an email account for you, you will soon receive an email message from the IT department with instructions for setting up your OCCLS email account. Once you log into that email account and properly set up your 2-Step Verification, make sure to contact the IT department at the HELP email address below to let us know it is ready or if you run into issues with the process. The IT department will need to manually confirm (not automated) that your OCCLS email address is properly set up. If we don't hear from you, we won't necessarily know to check. Once checked and confirmed, the IT department will manually add your OCCLS email address to your database record as your primary email. The IT department will then let you know when that is complete. At that point, you will be able to use SSO to access the web portal from your OCCLS email account.

WEB PORTAL ACCESS FROM A MOBILE WEB BROWSER

If you are a Future Student (Candidate), access to the web portal using the ID number and password method is the same as if you log on from a computer's web browser. But if you are required to use SSO for the login (students, staff, some alumni, parents, guardians, and spouses), it is possible, although a little more clunky, to access the web portal on a mobile web browser. To do this, you must be logged into your OCCLS email account within that same web browser. It is best if you first open a separate tab in the browser, go to gmail.com, and log into your OCCLS email account. Once you know you are properly logged into your OCCLS email account, open another web browser tab and go to my.occ.edu. Submit your ID number in the username field. Once that is submitted, the web portal will look to see if you are logged into your OCCLS email account within that web browser (within another tab). It will probably take you to a Google page were you will affirm (click on) the OCCLS email account that is listed. Once confirmed, it will go right back to the my.occ.edu site and you will be logged in.

Need HELP with OCC-related IT issues? Contact the IT Department at [email protected].