Setting Up Your TTU Email Account

How to Setup Your TTU Email Account

All admitted students have an email account with TTU.  Your new TTU email will be very important and useful.  Financial Aid, Orientation, Residential Life and other offices will contact you through your TTU email.  Students that would like to apply for university housing will first need to activate their TTU email account.

Follow these steps to locate your email address and sign into your Live @ EDU email account:

  • Go to Eagle Online at www.tntech.edu/eo
  • Choose “Enter Secure Banner Web Self Service"
    • You will need your Tech ID Number (T#) and PIN.
    • Tech ID: This was included in your "Thanks for applying email."  You may also find this here.
    • PIN: This was printed on the top right-hand corner of your acceptance letter. If you've never reset this PIN, it is often initially set to your date of birth in its 6-digit format (mmddyy).  If you changed your PIN but do not remember it, type in your Tech ID Number and then click “Forgot PIN” to answer your security question, or contact our Computer Operations Center at 931.372.3388 (or at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  with your other email address).  If this is the first time you've logged in it will ask you to change your PIN and set a security question/answer.
  • Once logged into Eagle Online, go to "Personal Info" tab and click, "View Email Addresses".
    • Your TTU email address will be listed under the Campus Email heading. It will be similar to this format:   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
  • Click the third tab in the middle of the page labeled "Reset your Password"
    • Your “Username” is your email address WITHOUT the @students.tntech.edu.
    • The “Old Password” is your Tech ID Number (T#) (include the capital T and the 8 digits that follow).
    • Your “New Password” must be between 6-16 characters and can contain letters, numbers and symbols (You cannot use spaces in the password, and your password can not contain your username).
  • Click “Change Now”
    • If your password was successfully changed, go to the the login box in the upper-right corner of the page and log in to your new email account!
    • If the password was not changed, you will see a notice that you have not successfully changed your password and to try again
    • If you are unable to reset your password, please contact our Computer Operations Center at 931.372.3388 (or at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  with your other email address).

To check your email in the future (now that you have reset your initial password):

To forward your TTU email to another email address:

  • After logging into your TTU email account, click on "Options" (upper right-hand corner), then "See all options".  On the right, click "Forward your email", and then at the bottom, under "Forward my email to:", type in the account you wish for your TTU email to be sent.

To find answers to frequently asked questions and learn more about your email, please visit: www.tntech.edu/studentemail.  If you have questions about setting up your email, contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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