As a registered ECU student your course material will be presented through a Course Management program called Blackboard. Since you are signed up for a web based course using Blackboard you are REQUIRED to use your ECU Email account (NO EXCEPTIONS).
Here are three tutorials on how to :

                  * Find out your ECU Email Address ID (Go to this Tutorial)
                  * Find out how to check your ECU Email account (Go to this tutorial)
                  * Find out how to access your Blackboard Courses(Go to this Tutorial)
                  * Help Contacts (See Contacts )

HOW TO FIND YOUR ECU EMAIL ACCOUNT:

ECU requires all Blackboard students to use the ECU email client without exception. This tutorial will briefly explain how to access this information. Upon registration an ECU email account is created. This account can be found at the following address Click HERE.

1 - Go to http://www.ecu.edu/cs-ecu/email_phone.cfmand type in your first and last name. Make sure that you choose STUDENTS ONLY. Click SEARCH.

2 - After the search results appear look for your information. Here is an example of those results. In this example the students ECU email address is mck1019@mail.ecu.edu.
******* Your ECU email ID in this example is mkl1019 *********

HOW TO CHECK YOUR ECU EMAIL ADDRESS:

1 - Go to http://www.piratemail.ecu.edu and type in your ECU email ID that you searched for in the tutorial above. Hit OK.

You will then see the following screen pop up. Type in your ECU Email ID (in this example mck1019) and then your ECU email password. Your Email password will be the dollar sign and capital E followed by the last 6 digits of your Social Security number  (example: $E123456). Once you have typed in your username and password click OK.

If you have questions about your Email password call the HELP DESK AT 252-328-6866.

ACCESSING YOUR BLACKBOARD CLASSES:

1 -Go the the following address to access your Blackboard courses. Click HERE Blackboard Gateway (when you click the Blackboard link it will open a new Window)
Type in your username (your ECU email ID) and your password (dollar sign and capital E followed by the last 6 digits of your Social Security number; example: $E123456) in the screen below.

2 - The courses listed under " My Courses " should be the set that you are taking in the current semester. Click the course name to enter the course.

If you still have Blackboard questions you can call the following contacts:

ECU Help Desk -  252-328-9866 - Make sure that you know the Course ID of the course that you are having trouble accessing.

Division of Continuing Studies - (252) 328-92061 or (800) 398-9275, Email DCS at dcs@mail.ecu.edu

ECU Blackboard Administrator - (252) 328-9074 or email at longm@mail.ecu.edu