Setting up your Gmail account

1. From My Chemeketa, click on the gmail icon in the upper right corner.
2. Click on “set your password first.”
3. Type in your Chemeketa username and password.
4. Create a password containing letters, numbers, and symbols, 8-30 characters long.
5. Re-enter your new password.
6. After reading the text, check the “I agree to the statements made above” box and click “set google password.”
7. Click “continue to Chemeketa gmail.”
8. Re-enter your password and click “sign in.”

Forwarding your Chemeketa Gmail to another email account

 For pictures of the entire process please check out our Facebook page

1.      Open your Chemeketa Gmail account

a.       Go to http://mail.google.com

b.      Type in your Chemeketa email address (e.g. asmith61@my.chemeketa.edu)

c.       Type in your Chemeketa email password.  If you don’t have a password yet, you can set this up through your myChemeketa account.

2.      Click on the gear next to your name in the upper righthand corner

3.      From the dropdown menu, select Mail Settings

4.      Select the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab at the top of the page

5.      Click on the Add a forwarding address button

6.      Type in your regular email address and hit Next

7.      Hit OK

8.      Log into your regular email account

9.      Open the Chemeketa Community College Forwarding Confirmation email

10.  Click on the confirmation link

11.  Go back to your Chemeketa Gmail account (see step 1)

12.  Repeat steps 2,3, and 4

13.  Select Forward a copy of incoming mail to

14.  Scroll to the bottom of the menu and click Save Changes

15.  Close your Chemeketa Gmail account

16.  To test, send an email to your my.chemeketa.edu email account.  It should end up in your regular email inbox after a few minutes.

Please note that due to privacy regulations, Financial Aid cannot answer your emails unless you send them through your Chemeketa Gmail.

Using labels in Gmail

Labels are a great way to categorize and organize your email. For instance, you could create separate labels for each semester, each class, or even for each assignment or project.


To create a label:

1. Click on the "labels" button and select "manage labels." 
2. Half way down the page, click on the "create new label" button.
3. Enter a descriptive title (such as "school work" or "Math").
4. Repeat as needed to create as many labels as you want.

To label email messages:

1. Return to your inbox.
2. Select the email messages you wish to label.
3. Click on the "labels" button and select the label you wish to apply. 

Tip: To view only email messages within a certain label, click on the label name from the list on the left side of your screen.

Tip: You can change the color of each label by clicking on the colored boxes to the right of each label on the left side of your screen.