Step One: Admission to SPSU

Go to http://www.spsu.edu/home/prospective/apply/index.html to apply.

Step Two: Register for eCore

Once you have been admitted or given transient status, you need to register for the eCore classes.

1. You must complete a registration form for each semester.
   1. Walk-in to EU at J330 and fill out a very short request form, OR
   2. Download a request form here, complete and return to J330, OR
   3. E-mail the following information to ecore@spsu.edu; 678-915-4984.
      • Your name
      • student ID
      • email address
      • daytime phone
      • cell phone
      • major
      • advisor
      • the course in which you wish to enroll (including the course code and title, e.g. HIST 1111 – World History)
   4. After you have filled in the form, have your Academic Advisor approve the eCore classes you wish to take as being appropriate and accepted for credit in your degree program.
   
   

   Your Advisor eCore Advisors are: the student’s own departmental academic advisor; or, Dawn Ramsey, Dean of Extended University, who serves as eCore advisor for transient students and eCore-only students. In their role of Academic Advisor, Faculty evaluate the appropriateness of your eCore course selections as those choices relate to fulfilling requirements for your course of study; and then, approve, or alternatively, suggest a more appropriate course choice for approval from the eCore selections; then send that approval to the eCore Administrator for registration. ECET majors do not require an Advisor's approval. All other majors require Adacemic Advisor approval for eCore registration.

2. Return the completed and signed form to Room J330 for the eCore Office to process. You may also e-mail or fax the form.
   
   eCore spaces are limited in every class. Seats are assigned as registration information is received complete. Students cannot register themselves for eCore courses.
   
   
3. Once registration is officially open, Extended University will enroll you into the requested eCore class (space permitting).
   
   
   1. ALL emails will be sent to a student's spsu.edu email address. You will be sent an email stating you have been successfully enrolled in the eCore classes you requested.
      
      
   2. If you have not activated or are not checking your SPSU email account, you should do it immediately and become familiar with this account and its features.
      
      
   3. Those students just admitted to SPSU will probably not have an active email account when they apply. In those cases we will use a non-spsu address until your SPSU account is created.
      
      If you have not received an email within 3 days, please contact the eCore Office at ecore@spsu.edu or call 678-915-4984.

Step Three: Books and kits

• Go to the eCore bookstore and purchase your textbooks and/or science kits. It's important to have your books and lab kits before your first class begins.

Step Four: Getting your eCore status

5. eCore Administration creates an account and password for each student in eCore and enrolls each in the appropriate WebCT Vista classes.
   
   
6. eCore Administration will then mail and e-mail a "Getting Started" letter to each student. This letter is your admission to your eCore class.
   
   If you do not receive this "Getting Started" letter two days before the start of the first class, you should alert the eCore Administrator at SPSU in Room J330, 678-915-3714 or by email: ecore@spsu.edu.

Step Five: Logging in

• You will receive login instructions in your "Getting Started" letter, which you should follow immediately to ensure there are no technical issues. There are also login instructions on the state's web site: http://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/ecore/logininfo.html
  
  
  1. If you cannot log in after following the instructions, go to http://help.view.usg.edu/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=3094.
     
     
  2. Once you have logged in to WebCT Vista and looked at your course(s), there is usually a simple task for you to accomplish within each course that alerts the instructor that you have been successful at logging in and using the software.