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Dialing Instructions
How to use your campus phone

Your Voice Mailbox
Your personal answering machine

Changing Rooms or Roommates
Have your number follow you

Other Information
A few important things to note

Telecommunications
Humanities, Room 316
651-696-6566

Your Voice Mailbox

All Resident Assistants have campus voice mailboxes.  Each on-campus resident can request a voice mailbox. When you arrive on campus for fall semester, you will find a one page  Telecommunications information sheet in your room.  

To request a voice mailbox, email the Telecommunications Manager, Kelly Borke with your name, student ID number, residence hall, room and extension.  Within 24 business hours, you will receive an email with all the pertinent information to activate your voice mailbox.  When you initialize your voice mail box, you will be asked to record your name and a greeting. You may choose to use the standard (generic) greeting.

Your message indicator is either a stutter dial tone or a flashing message lamp. It will stay on, until all roommates' messages have been listened to. If you would prefer to have the other option (stutter dial tone or lamp), please call Telecommunications at x6566. If you are using a modem through your phone, your indicator must be the stutter dial tone.

To change your greeting:
access your voice mailbox
press 4, follow prompts

To retrieve messages:
from on campus, dial 6666
or
from off campus, dial 651-696-6666; press * followed by your voice mailbox (not your extension), enter your passcode follow the prompts.

When two or more voice mailboxes are associated with one phone, the voice mail system automatically states a generic greeting telling callers to press 1 or 2 to leave a message for you or your roommate. You have the option of personalizing this main greeting.  Don't forget to include which option to press for whom.

To personalize your main greeting, if you have more than one person with a campus voice mailbox sharing your extension:  
call Telecommunications at x6566, or email Kelly Borke, for a password and instructions.

Macalester College · 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105  USA · 651-696-6000
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