The Counseling Community has many innovative features that are designed to enhance collaboration.  We encourage you to familiarize yourself with some of these features and begin to use the system. To get a head start, it is recommended that you follow the steps shown below:

1. View the Walkthrough Video Series

This video series will give you a short walkthrough of the important elements of the Counseling Community and provide an overview of how you can connect with other students, faculty, and alumni quickly and easily. 

Topics to be discussed, include: 

• How to access the Counseling Community
• Navigating the Home Page 
• Specialty Page Navigation
• My Dashboard

2. Update Profile

The first step is to update your profile and select which information that you would like to share with other members of the online community. To access your profile, follow these steps:

1.  Move your mouse pointer over your name which is located in the top left hand corner of the Userbar.  Click on the drop down menu, and then click on Profile.
2. To edit your profile, click “Edit” which appears next to a yellow pencil on the right hand side of the screen.

If you prefer, you may upload a photograph of yourself, although this is completely optional.  Please remember that this is a professional network and that your photograph should not include family members or pets. 

The Counseling Community has many innovative features that are designed to encourage enhanced collaboration.  Therefore, continue to explore the many features of the system.   As you locate documents, blogs, or discussions that are of interest, you can receive automatic email notification any time changes occur in these documents by simply selecting “follow” which is located at the bottom every page. Should you run into some difficulties the home page a link to Technical Support for your convenience.

The E-Portfolio is an important piece of your graduate education. Although not due until your last internship, working on it throughout your program will give you a head start on its completion and your career trajectory. We have created a set of instructional videos that you are able to view.  

To get started, click on the link below to view the videos for your program:

CMHC E-Portfolio Introduction 

School Counseling E-Portfolio Introduction

Doctoral Committee Pages (DCPs): What is it? When should I gain access?

The Doctoral Committee Page provides a central and private, area within the Counseling Community (3C) for the learner and their doctoral committee to work together towards the successful completion of the learner’s program of study. The learner, the doctoral committee chair/mentor, your site-based learning instructors/supervisor along with the external Student Services Counselor (SSC), Field Experience Counselor (FEC), access shared resources in the DCP. 

Together they can easily communicate, share/review documents, and plan specific milestones towards the successful completion of the learner’s candidacy portfolio. Communications, milestones, and document versions that reside on the DCP and remain intact throughout the duration of the learner’s academic process.

Doctoral learners are assigned a doctoral committee after they have satisfactorily completed their first course in the program. Once your DCP page is created, you will have access to your DCP by clicking on My Dashboard and selecting your committee on the right hand-side under My Spaces or you can find that page on your My Dashboard page, it is named DCP_firstname_lastname.

To disable message notifications, access your profile on CCC. On your profile page, select the "Messages" tab. On the bottom of the messages tab, located after the messages box, find the sentence "You will be notified by email when new messages are received. Disable Notifications." 

Select the "Disable Notifications link at the end of the sentence.