GMail: Setting VCCS Forwarding

How to forward your VCCS e-mail address to a separate e-mail address of your choosing.

Purpose

This article instructs BR Account email users how to forward their VCCS email to their @brcc.edu account

Assumptions

You are a full time faculty or staff member at BRCC, or someone who has been granted an @brcc.edu email address. 

Steps

1. Log into your My BRCC account, then click on Gmail.

 

2. In your VCCS Gmail account click on the settings cog in the upper right hand corner and then click on "See All Settings"

 

3. Click on "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" and then click on the "Add a forwarding address" button

 

4. A pop-up box will appear over the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" section. Enter the e-mail address you want to forward your vccs Gmail to, then click on "Next"

 

5. You may need to go through additional security verifications through another device. Follow the instructions listed in the second pop-up window after you enter the address you would like to forward to

 

6. Click on the "Proceed" option

 

7. Click "OK"

 

8. There will be a link that gets sent to the e-mail address that you are trying to forward your VCCS e-mail to

 

9. Click on "Confirm"

 

10. You will then get a "Confirmation Success!" message and your e-mails will now forward to the address of your choosing. If you ever want to turn this off, you will go back to the same settings section in your Gmail account and "Disable Forwarding"