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Student Logins Explained

 

myGate

To access any campus system, students must be able to access myGate first.

Racernet – http://campus.murraystate.edu

Click on the “myGate” link on the right.

  • If you know your username and password, follow the instructions on the right.
  • If you don’t know your username or password, follow the instructions on the left.

 

Network Accounts (To Access Campus Computers/Register for Bradford in Resnet)

  • To activate your student network account, login to myGate. (You can use the username murray and the password racers to login to any campus computer to do this.)
  • Click the “Activate Student Active Directory Network Logon Account” link under “MSU Web Account Services”
  • Follow the instructions to set a password. Note that your username is now the same as your myGate username.
  • If you have already done this and don’t know your password, follow the instructions to change your password.
  • You can now logon to any campus computer with your myGate username and your new network password.

 

Email Access

  • To change your email password, login to myGate.
  • Click the “Change MSU Email Password (youremail@murraystate.edu)” link under “MSU Web Account Services”
  • Follow the instructions to set a password.
  • After hitting submit, you can click the “Webmail Murray State University” logo above to access the webmail login page.

 

Blackboard/e-Study Center

  • To access Blackboard, all users will now login to myGate for the Blackboard login page.
  • The link is located on the “Home” tab at the top left.
  • Your username is the same as the first part of your email address (what appears before the @murraystate.edu part)
  • If you do not know your password, click the “Forgot Password?” link.  *All New Students will need to reset their password the first time.
  • Fill in the first three boxes (Option 1) ONLY.
  • After hitting Submit, instructions should say “An email with instructions for changing a password has been sent to the email address registered for this user.”
  • Check your Murray State email for an email called “Lost Password Notification.”
  • Open the email, and click the long link provided to set a new password.

For updates and further help with Blackboard, visit http://campus.murraystate.edu/blackboard/info.htm