Students, faculty and staff are required to maintain a secure, strong password for access to the campus network and services provided by the college. Your username and password will provide you access to all on campus workstations and WiFi, as well as allow entry to the my.westshore.edu campus portal, the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS), WSCC Email and OneDrive.

All passwords must be at least 10 characters long and contain three out of four of the following items: UPPER CASE LETTERS (ABC), lower case letters (abc), numbers (0123) or symbols (!@#$%). Your new password cannot be the same as any of your previous four passwords and cannot contain part of your user name.

Changing a password:

To change your password, please click this link and follow the directions provided.

Forgotten passwords

If you forgot your WSCC password, please go to open a web browser and go to my.westshore.edu and click the Help link. There you will find a document titled: “How to Reset a Forgotten WSCC Password”. This document provides step-by-step instructions for resetting your password.

Tips to help keep your password secure:

• Make it unique
• Make it difficult to guess
• Use three or more words
• Substitute numbers for letters
• Add punctuation
• Keep it private (don’t give it out to anyone)
• Don’t write your password down

Examples of secure passwords:
Phrase: Thirty Four Free Trees!
Password: 34Fr33Tr33s!
Phrase: Mean What You Say and Say What You Mean
Password: mWu5&5Wum

Things to avoid:

• Don’t use words in the dictionary
• Don’t use your username as your password
• Don’t use obvious words like your pets or children’s names