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1. Open Email on the home screen. If you already have other email accounts set up on Android, press the menu button (between the home and back buttons on the phone) and select Accounts. Press the menu button again, and then select Add Account (select More Settings to find Add Account, if necessary).
2. In the Email address: field, enter your full UMBC email address - username@umbc.edu.
3. In the Password field, enter your UMBC email password.
4. In the bottom left-hand corner, select Manual, and then select IMAP account.
5. In the Username field, enter your full UMBC email address - username@umbc.edu
6. In the IMAP Server field, enter imap.umbc.edu
7. Change Security type to SSL Port will automatically change to 993 
8. Leave the IMAP path prefix field blank
9. Hit Next. You will briefly see the "Checking Incoming Server Settings" screen. 
10. In the SMTP server field, enter smtp.umbc.edu
11. Change Security type to SSL, and in the Port field, enter 465
12. Make sure that Require sign-in is checked.
13. The "Username" and "Password" fields should already be filled. If not, enter your information, as detailed in steps 3 and 5 above.
14. Hit Next. You will briefly see the "Checking Outgoing Server Settings" screen.
15. Next to "Email checking frequency", select how often you would like your phone to check for new messages.
16. Next to "Give this account a name (optional)", you can enter a name like UMBC Email.
17. To receive a notification when you receive email, check Notify me when email arrives.In the "Your name" field, enter your full name.
18. Click Done.

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Your site can display spotlights, news, and events created in your myUMBC group.

1. From your site dashboard, hover over the Appearance link in the left-hand sidebar and click the UMBC link
2. Scroll down to the bottom of this page, and find the myUMBC Group Token text field
3. Enter your myUMBC Group token (see: What is a myUMBC Group Token?)
4. Click the blue Save Changes link at the bottom of the page. Now, you can use the myUMBC widgets and Page Templates so that your myUMBC Group content automatically shown on your site.

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