Golden West College: Off-Campus Access Instructions

Your Coast or MyGWC Account is your student account for Golden West College and gives you access to the following:

• Library Resources
• Canvas
• MyGWC (and MyOCC or MyCCC if you are enrolled at either Orange Coast or Coastline College too)
• Free access to Office 365
• ... to name a few.

*IMPORTANT: If you reset your password for MyGWC or Microsoft Entra Single Sign-on, you will be resetting the password for ALL of these services.

This account information is sent to you when you register for classes on campus.

Contact District IT:

(714) 438 8188

If you are a currently enrolled student and have questions about your COAST Username or Password, they can help.

Important Tips:

1. Use your full email address.
2. All students in the Coast District will use their assigned Canvas/MyGWC/MyCoast username and then @student.cccd.edu as their email address.
   1. If your username is example123, your full email address is example123@student.cccd.edu

District Password Complexity Rules:

May not be any of your prior 24 used passwords and requires a minimum of 12 characters:

• 1 lowercase letter (a-z)
• 1 uppercase/capital letter (A-Z)
• 1 number (0-9)
• 1 special character/symbol (~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'><,.?/)

Additionally:

• No part of your name or email.
• No common words (i.e. school spring,  summer,  fall,  2021,  2022) often found in passwords. 
• No previous passwords.

District Information Services (IT) has created this video introduction to signing up and using Microsoft Entra: