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Technical Support for Students

You can get technical support for many SMC-sponsored computer services if:

• you are enrolled in a class for the current semester or a future one
• you were admitted (or readmitted) within the last six months
  • If you were admitted more than six months ago but never enrolled in a class, please file a new admission application.
• you are a former student who enrolled in a class during the last two years.
  • Former students who have not taken classes within the last two years should file a new admission application or see the transcripts page.

Please choose ONE of the following options to get technical support:

• Email (only if you can log in to your assigned SMC student email account)
  • From an SMC student email account, email your question to studentITHELP@smc.edu
    • Please use the "Online form" (below) to help verify your identity if you cannot log in to your student email account.
    • Our spam filter will quarantine (delay) or block email sent from non-SMC email addresses.
• Online form: Student Tech Support form
  • If you cannot log in to your assigned SMC student email account, please use the online form.
    
    • Leave "username" blank if you don't know it. It is the part of your assigned SMC student email address before "@student.smc.edu".
    • Give the personal email address you already have on file with the College, if possible:
      • the email address you gave on your admission application, OR
      • the email address entered later on the Profile/Preferences page of the Corsair Connect student self-service system
    • If you give a different email address, there might be a long delay since we might have to ask more questions to verify your identity.
• An automated studentITHELP chatbot (which might give you an immediate answer)
  • Click the yellow bubble at the lower right corner of this screen. It will either answer your question or forward it to studentITHELP@smc.edu 
• Telephone: 310-434-3111 (CLOSED UNTIL TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2022. Voicemail messages left before January 3 will not be returned, as they won't be saved long enough.)
  • • Please have your SMC student ID number ready.
    • We only have a limited number of phone lines. We might be helping somebody else when you call.
    • If your call goes to voicemail it will be sent to us as an email (the same as you sending an email or filling out the Student Tech Support Form).
    • Your call may be returned by either telephone or email.
    • Please include in your voicemail:
      • SMC student ID number
      • First and last names
      • Telephone area code and phone number
      • Issue you're calling about
    • Since we have many callers, we sometimes have to limit the maximum time with a caller to fifteen minutes or less per day.