The Getting Started Checklist

Are you ready for school to start? Here is a checklist of the essential (and helpful) tasks you need to complete in order to have a successful term.

After completing this orientation, you should have:

• Logged in to Student Online Services
• Set up your ONID account
• Learned about other important services at OSU
• Printed or saved documents and bookmarked any websites that you want to reference in the future (including the orientation itself, if desired).

Next:

• You will be contacted by your adviser for an advising appointment once you have completed the orientation quiz if you don't already have an appointment scheduled.
• Ask any questions you may have
• Register for classes
• Buy a planner if you don't already have one, to record course assignments, deadlines, and exams

Before the term starts:

• Double-check your course schedule
• Order your course materials (remember to allow time for shipping.)
• Look for and read the Getting Started letter from Ecampus via your ONID email account. This letter includes helpful information, including a copy of the current terms' Academic Calendar and the fee schedule for dropping/withdrawing from a class after the term starts.

During the term:

• Routinely check your ONID email
• Login to Blackboard daily. (You will not see that you are registered for any courses in Blackboard until the instructor activates the course during the first two days of the term.)
• Look for your eBill notification through your ONID email. This should arrive within the first two weeks of the term.