{"id":11,"date":"2025-04-22T02:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T09:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/elpa\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:08:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:08:52","slug":"step-1-my-account","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/elpa\/before-i-arrive\/step-1-my-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Step 1 | My Account"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Check Your Account Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Please sign in to your account and update your information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/continuingstudies.uvic.ca\/Account\/ContactInfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Access your account<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sign in with your <strong>NetLink ID<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you do not have your NetLink ID yet, please set it up along with the Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) following the instructions <a href=\"https:\/\/continuingstudies.uvic.ca\/help-centre\/student-services\/preparing-for-your-studies\/netlink\" target=\"_blank\">on our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In your account, complete these items:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Check that your contact information is correct:&nbsp;<strong>Email<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Phone numbers<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Addresses<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check that your&nbsp;<strong>Birthdate<\/strong>&nbsp;is correct.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Update your&nbsp;<strong>Emergency contacts<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Complete the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/continuingstudies.uvic.ca\/srs\/Form\/?ID=199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Release of Information form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Complete the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/continuingstudies.uvic.ca\/srs\/form\/?id=543\" target=\"_blank\">Attendance Policy Agreement<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next Step<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When you&#8217;re done, go to<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/elpa\/before-i-arrive\/step-2-english-self-assessment\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"42\"><strong>Step 2 | English Self-Assessment<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check Your Account Information Please sign in to your account and update your information: Access your account Sign in with your NetLink ID If you do not have your NetLink ID yet, please set it up along with the Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) following the instructions on our website. In your account, complete these items: Next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/elpa\/before-i-arrive\/step-1-my-account\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Step 1 | My Account<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2278,"featured_media":40,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/elpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/elpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/elpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/elpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/elpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/elpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/elpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/394"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/elpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/elpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/elpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}