Topic
How to add your Cecil Outlook email account to your cell phone.
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Instructions
Cecil College uses Outlook for email services. There are two ways to access Outlook on your phone, through an app and through a web browser.
Table of Contents:
Setting up the Outlook app for the first time
Adding your employee email as a second Outlook account
Accessing Outlook through a Web Browser
Setting up the Outlook app for the first time
To set up Outlook, you will want to first download the Outlook app from the Appstore or Playstore.
When you open the app, you will have an option to “Add Account”, click this to begin.
You will then be asked to enter your email address. This will be your username followed by “@cecil.edu”. Your password will be your Cecil College password.
Outlook will then set up your account, and you will be brought to your inbox. You can click on your account icon in the top left corner to access your other folders as well as settings.
Adding your employee email as a second Outlook account
If you are already using Outlook for another email account, you will need to add your Cecil email as a second account. To do this, open the Outlook app on your phone. In the top left corner, you will see your account icon as shown below. Click on this to open a side menu.
At the bottom left of that menu, you will see the settings button in the form of a gear. Click on that to bring you to the settings menu. Then, click on “Accounts”.
In the “Accounts” menu, you will see your current account, and below that an option to “Add Account”. Click on “Add Account”, then click on “Email Account”
Outlook may then pull up some accounts that it thinks belong to you. One of those may be your Cecil email which you can select to continue. If not, hit skip at the bottom of the page, and then type in your Cecil email into the box and hit “Add Account”. You will then be asked to enter your Cecil password. Hit “Sign in” when you are done.
Outlook will now add your account and start downloading emails.
When you go back to “Accounts”, you will see that your Cecil email now shows up.
In your inbox, you will now show emails from both accounts.
Putting your emails into two separate inboxes.
If you want your emails to be separated based on which account they come from, you can click back on the account icon from step 1. You will see three icons, one for each account and one that looks like a globe, which represents “All Accounts”. To separate them, click on one of the individual accounts. Your inbox will now only show emails from that account. You can switch back and forth between accounts by going back to the account icon and choosing the one you want.
Accessing Outlook through a Web Browser
Outlook can also be accessed through a web browser. To do this, you can type outlook.com into the search bar. Then you can click sign in on the Outlook login page.
From there, you can sign in with your Cecil College email address and password.
You will then be brought to your inbox.
Signing Out of Web Outlook
If you regularly sign into Outlook with a different email address, you may be automatically signed into that account when you go to Outlook.com. To sign out, click on the account icon in the top right corner. A pop up will appear with the option to “Sign out” or “Sign in with a different account”.
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