Accessing class information via My Gateway
To find your My Gateway ID and password:
- 1. Go to the web page http://mygateway.umsl.edu
- 2. Click on the "My Gateway ID Search" button
- 3. Type in your student number and your federal ID number (Social Security Number) and click on "Search"
- 4. The next page will show your My Gateway login ID. It also informs you that your default password is a string of eight characters comprised of yyddssss where yy are the last two digits of the year you were born, dd is the day (01-31) of the month on which you were born, and ssss is the last block of four digits from your federal ID number (SSN)
If you have previously accessed your My Gateway account and have changed your password, use the new password that you specified for this account.
If you have used dial in access from home and have changed your password, you must use the new password that you specified.
To login to My Gateway:
- 1. Go back to the web page http://mygateway.umsl.edu
- 2. Click on the "Login" button
- 3. Type in your login ID and password
- 4. After logging on to the My Gateway system you will be brought to your "My Gateway" page. From this page you can access most of the features of the My Gateway system, and all of your classes at UM-St. Louis, as well as a variety of other campus based resources (there’s a link here to the web based interface for your admiral email). The "Tools" area will allow you to: check your grades and class announcements; make calendar, task list, and address book entries; search for other users; and do course email.
- 5. Under the heading "My Courses," on the "My Gateway" page, click on our class name, and you will access the class My Gateway site. The first page displayed is "Announcements." Here you will see all class related announcements, including the availability of online progress evaluations, and other class related news. The buttons on the left-hand side of the screen give you access to a variety of tools and documents that your instructor has created for your class.
The areas available, and some of the items you may find, include:
- Course Information: Syllabus, Grading Policies, etc.
- Course Documents: Lecture Notes, Virtual Handouts, and Study Guides.
- Staff Information: Contact information for your course instructor and teaching assistants.
- Assignments: Reading assignments, Essays, and Quizzes.
- External Links: A variety of class related www sites
- Tools: "Student Drop Box" for submitting written work (please use MS Word format), "Check Your Grade" gives your access to your current class grades (progress evaluation scores are automatically entered), your calendar, a class web page editing utility—you can create a personal web page that the rest of the class can access, and a student manual that will tell you more about the My Gateway system; and an "Electronic Blackboard" where you can create and store class related notes.
- Communication: Class email utility, access to student web pages, the class discussion board for online participation (there is also a button that takes you directly here), Group Pages (available to any group of students who wish to work and study together online), a student roster, and the virtual chat program for synchronous online.
- There are other buttons available for use—instructors may use different buttons to organize their course material.
As a student at UM-St. Louis, you have access to the campus email system:
- All students are assigned email accounts on ADMIRAL. This is the official mail server for students, and your email account on Admiral is used within the My Gateway system.
- New Students (as of FS 2000) will use their "GatewayID" (same as for dial-up and My Gateway access) as their email account ID.
- The password for your email account is your GatewayID password (yyddsss: yy is the year of your birth, dd is the day of your birth, ssss is the last four digits of your social security number).
- Your E-Mail address is GatewayID@admiral.umsl.edu.
- Returning Students will keep their old email accounts:
- If you started as a new student at UMSL anytime before Fall 1999:
- Your user ID for email is S1234567 (S followed by your full student number).
- The password for your email account is your social security number (unless you have changed it already).
- Your E-Mail address is Sxxxxxxx@admiral.umsl.edu.
- If you started as a new student at UMSL in Fall 1999, Winter 2000, or Summer 2000:
- Your user ID for email is S063456 (S followed by the last six digits of student number).
- The password for your email account is your social security number (unless you have changed it already).
You can access your E-mail (and other electronic resources) through a variety of means at any of the Student Computer Labs here on campus. The easiest way is through the World Wide Web. Simply enter http://admiral.umsl.edu as the page you wish to open (you will find an icon at the top of the My Gateway system pages that will take you directly to the Admiral login page. You will be prompted to enter your user ID and password. After logging on, the system is simple to use.
Contact: Help Desk (Technology Support Center, 516-6034, for additional help.
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