You will then be taken to the first time visitor’s page. Here your Name and email should be prefilled, however, you will need to create a new username, password and security question for the Brookes Connections portal (Tip: It will be easier for you if you keep these the same as your alumni account) Please read and tick that you agree to the privacy policy and terms and conditions, then select ‘next’. Step 3) Creating an Email-for-Life If you do not have an email-for-life (an @oxfordbrookes.net email address) this is your chance to create one. Don’t worry, you can skip this section and still have the chance to create one at a later date! If you wish to create one, your username will be prefilled into the email username (you can change this if you wish). Then select up email addresses. If ‘set you wish to skip, press this step’. ‘skip If you already have an email-for-life account, you shouldn’t be shown this message. However, if you are, please select this step’. ‘skip Step 4) Your Account This is your account’ page, links your Brookes Connections directory and your email ‘my accounts, as well as some other settings. To access your email-for-life from here, please select email accounts, and webmail’. At this point you can also choose to an ‘access ‘create account’ if you have not set one up. To access the Brookes Connections portal please select Directory’ and to the ‘The ‘Access Directory’. Step 5) Getting Started with Brookes Connections After clicking the Directory’, you will be directed to the Brookes Connections set-up ‘Access wizard. From here on you will be setting up your directory profile and mentoring profile (if you wish to be a mentor). To make things easier for you, we have allowed you to sync your LinkedIn details to populate your profile. If you wish to do this, please select my data from LinkedIn’, if not ‘Get and you can fill your profile in manually later. ‘next’
You will then be taken to the first time visitor’s page. Here your Name and email should be prefilled, however, you will need to create a new username, password and security question for the Brookes Connections portal (Tip: It will be easier for you if you keep these the same as your alumni account) Please read and tick that you agree to the privacy policy and terms and conditions, then select ‘next’. Step 3) Creating an Email-for-Life If you do not have an email-for-life (an @oxfordbrookes.net email address) this is your chance to create one. Don’t worry, you can skip this section and still have the chance to create one at a later date! If you wish to create one, your username will be prefilled into the email username (you can change this if you wish). Then select ‘set up email addresses. If you wish to skip, press ‘skip this step’. If you already have an email-for-life account, you shouldn’t be shown this message. However, if you are, please select ‘skip this step’. Step 4) Your Account This is your ‘my account’ page, links your Brookes Connections directory and your email accounts, as well as some other settings. To access your email-for-life from here, please select email accounts, and ‘access webmail’. At this point you can also choose to ‘create an account’ if you have not set one up. To access the Brookes Connections portal please select ‘The Directory’ and ‘Access to the Directory’. Step 5) Getting Started with Brookes Connections After clicking ‘Access the Directory’, you will be directed to the Brookes Connections set-up wizard. From here on you will be setting up your directory profile and mentoring profile (if you wish to be a mentor). To make things easier for you, we have allowed you to sync your LinkedIn details to populate your profile. If you wish to do this, please select ‘Get my data from LinkedIn’, if not ‘next’ and you can fill your profile in manually later.
Mentor-Training-and-User-Guide.docx