How To Sign Up For Voice Mail and Authorization Code

To receive your authorization code and voice mailbox number. When you reside on campus you must dial from your assigned room ONLY. Please have a pencil and piece of paper ready; you will also need your Cobleskill ID number, your permanent 5 digit home zip code, and the month and day of your birth.

1. Dial 5500 from your assigned dorm room

2. Listen to the response from the voice mail

3. Please enter your Cobleskill ID number (9 digit number starting with an 8)

4. Listen to the response from the voice mail system

5. Please enter your permanent 5 digit home zip code

6. Listen to the response from the voice mail system

7. Please enter the month of your birth (using 1 for Jan, 2 for Feb, 10 for Oct)

8. Listen to the response from the voice mail system

9. Please enter the day of your birth (using 1 for 1, 8 for 8, 10 for 10)

10. Listen to the response from the voice mail system. Please be ready to write down the information given to you.

Press 1 if you are ready to receive your telephone authorization code and voicemail box number

Authorization Code ____________________ Voicemail Box # _____________

If the system cannot generate an authorization code or voicemail box number, it will generate an error code. Write this error code down and call 5515 and ask for assistance between the hours of 8 am and 4 pm.

To Activate Your Authorization Code and Voicemail Box:

1. Press the star key (*) and then the five (5) key

2. Press the pound key (#)

3. Enter your voicemail box number

4. Enter the generic security code by pressing the four (4) key seven (7) times (Ex:4444444)

5. Now enter any new seven (7) digit security code (something you will remember)

6. Press the pound key (#)

7. You must confirm this number by repeating step 5 and 6 this will activate our PRIVATE access to your voice mailbox

8. Once you are into the voicemail system you may also place a greeting on your voice mailbox by pressing the four (4) key then the six (6) key and start recording your greeting. When you are finished recording your greeting press the pound (#) key

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