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Instructional and Information Technology Services (IITS)

Self Enrollment in Community

Community is provided to meet the collaborative working and social needs of the campus community and campus-sponsored external communities. Unlike the academic instruction-based Cougar Courses, Community is not organized by term and containers are not automatically created. Community assumes on-going activity throughout the year or over multiple years. By default enrollment in Community containers is manually done by the container owner. However, if enabled by the container owner, you can enroll yourself into a container in Community. If self-enrollment is set up, you should have been provided the name of the container and, if necessary, the enrollment key.

  1. Log in to Community. If you are a CSUSM user, click the CSUSM Account Login button near the top. This will redirect you to the CSUSM single sign-on. If you have a non-CSUSM account, enter your Community username and password in the appropriate boxes. If you have trouble logging in, please email cchelp@csusm.edu with a description of the issue.CSUSM Account Login button
  2. Click My Courses in the upper right. If you do not already see the container on your My Courses page, click on the "Community @ CSUSM" link in the upper left to return to the Community homepage.

 My Courses

  1. Scroll to the bottom of the page. In the Search Courses box, enter the name of the container that the department/group gave you and click Go.

 search courses box

  1. Click on the name of the course. Note: the course listed here here is just an example, this is not the course you will be enrolling in. The name of the course you are enrolling in should have been provided to you by the group/department that sent you these instructions. If they did not provide a container name, please contact them.

 name of course in search results

  1. If the container does not require an enrollment key, click the Enroll Me button. If the container does require an enrollment key, enter it in the Enrollment Key box. Be careful as some browsers will instead auto-fill your CSUSM/Community password into that box. If you cannot self-enroll or do not know the enrollment key, please contact the department/group managing the container.

 enrollment key box above Enroll Me button

  1. You will then be enrolled in the course and brought to its homepage. When you log in to Community in the future the course will show up on your My Courses page.