 Welcome to the Highline College CTC Link how-to video series. In this session, we will cover how to access your CTC Link student portal. We will show you how to activate your CTC Link account and how to sign in so you can have access to register for classes, view your academic record, update your personal information, and many other things. First, open a web browser and go to the Highline College website at www.highline.edu. From this page, you'll find the CTC Link identifier at the top right and click on it. You will then be directed to the CTC Link information page. From this page, click the login button. This will take you to the CTC Link sign in page shown here. This is the login page for CTC Link. You may also reach this page directly by opening a web browser and going to gateway.ctclink.us. To activate your account, you will click the link at the bottom of the page that says Activate Your Account. You may get a pop-up redirect notification. If this occurs, click OK to continue. We are now on the Activate Your Account page. Let's activate a student account. For this video, I'm going to be the student. To get started, click on the field labeled First Name and enter your answer. Next, tab or click into the last name field and enter your answer. Our next section is the date of birth. This field is in an eight-digit format. Two digits for the month, two digits for the day, and four digits for the year. Next, use your tab key to move to the ID type dropdown. You will have two choices when entering your ID number. To find your options, click on the arrow inside the dropdown box for the ID types. This will give you the option to use your CTC link ID or the older student ID. For the purpose of this video, I will activate my account using the new CTC link ID. I will enter my number in the field labeled ID. When I've completed the data field boxes, I will go to the button labeled Submit and click on it. We are now on a page called Set Your Password. First, we will enter an email address for account recovery purposes. This can be your work, school, or personal email address for this account where you will receive password recovery or reset emails, so make sure it's an account you can easily access. Next, select the security question. Use the dropdown arrow to view your security question options and select the question that has an answer you can remember, or store the answer in a secure location for future use. Select your question and then tab or click into the answer box and enter your answer. Next, in the account recovery section, you will have the ability to enter a phone number where you can receive text and or voice calls. This can be the same phone number or different phone numbers. These phone numbers will be used to assist in recovering your account or resetting your password if you were ever locked out. After you've completed the account recovery, it's now time to create your password. Use your tab or mouse to the password fields. Your password must be at least eight characters long and include at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, and one number. You can also use special characters if you'd like. Do not use all or part of a first or last name for security reasons. You will be entering your password twice, first in the password text box and again in the confirmation password text box. Once done, click the submit button located at the bottom of the page. You will receive a confirmation message. Please be sure to remember to store your CTC link ID before you click OK. Once you click OK, your CTC link number will disappear. You will now be on a page that says account activation successfully completed. Go ahead and close this browser window before logging into CTC link. To sign in, you will enter your CTC link ID number in the box and click next. Then enter your password and click verify. This will take you to the CTC link portal page or if you're a student attending more than one college, you will see multiple college tiles. If you have the page with multiple tiles, select the tile for Highline College where you're logging into. From this portal gateway, you can get to your student self-service menu by clicking on the box titled student home page. You are now in your CTC link student home page with access to various Highline College student resources. Congratulations! You have successfully activated your CTC link account and signed in.