Page 1 of 10 Cardinal Contact Cardinal Contact is North Idaho College s communication tool for notifying employees, students, and community members of emergencies. Login to Cardinal Contact and setup your account, or for existing users make changes to your contact information. For employees and students continue to the instructions below, for community members access the external Cardinal Contact instructions on our IT web site at www.nic.edu/it under Knowledge Base > Email & Messaging. Instructions 1. To access and setup Cardinal Contact for the first time, login to your MyNIC account at https://mynic.nic.edu. 2. Under the Bookmarks section (bottom right of page) choose Cardinal Contact.
Page 2 of 10 3. If this is the first time you have logged into Cardinal Contact a setup window will appear. If you do not get the setup window, you can skip to Step #9. For first time users, place a check mark beside the phone and/or email address that are correct and you would like to use for notifications. Note: Any item not selected will be excluded from communication). Click next. 4. You can add an additional email address or phone numbers to the list to receive communications by choosing that option. If you do not want to add and additional information click next and skip to step #5.
Page 3 of 10 To add an email address, click the Add Email button. Enter an email address and click Save. To add a phone number, click the Add Phone button. Chose the country, enter the phone number as 10- digits with no characters (ex: 2087693280), choose a label, and choose how you want to receive the message: Voice = voicemail, Text = text message, and/or TTY = Teletype. Click Save.
Page 4 of 10 5. At the language preference screen click Next.
Page 5 of 10 6. Chose the subscription NIC Alerts to receive emergency notifications from NIC to the phone number(s) and/or email address(s) you selected and/or added. Click Next.
Page 6 of 10 7. Click Done.
Page 7 of 10 8. The next screen will be your home screen. This is where you have access to edit your contact information as well as your subscriptions. To edit contact information, click once on Edit contact information OR in the top right-hand corner of your screen click on your name, then choose contact info.
Page 8 of 10 9. From the My Contact Information screen you can add, remove, or edit email and phone numbers. To add an email address or phone number, refer to step #5 above. To edit an existing email address or phone number, hover over the email or phone number until it is highlighted grey. Click the pencil icon to edit. Make your changes and click Save. To remove an existing email address or phone number, hover over the email or phone number until it is highlighted grey. Click the trash can icon. Click OK to delete or Cancel to cancel the request.
Page 9 of 10 10. To manage your subscriptions go to the top right-hand corner of your screen click once on your name, then click once on subscriptions. 11. Choose the Manage Subscriptions tab. 12. Uncheck the box next to NIC Alerts if you do not wish to receive emergency notifications to the phone number(s) and/or email address(s) you have on file.
Page 10 of 10 13. To sign out, click on your name in the top right-hand corner of the screen, and choose sign out. This will take you back to your MyNIC login screen.