For Students

Overview

Manage personal to-do lists, course projects, and extracurricular groups using monday.com! As a virtual planner and project management tool, monday.com is a great resource to organize your life and stay on track. Key features:

• Tracking upcoming tasks and adding details like priority, status, files, notes, etc.
• Calendar to plan your work week to ensure ample time to tackle big projects.
• Customizable dashboard and visualizations of upcoming tasks.
• Shared boards to collaborate with group project members or student organizations.

monday.com offers a free plan for Fordham students to utilize, which includes: 

• Create up to 3 main boards in your account
• Up to 200 items across all of your boards
• Save and manage files and notes in the updates section of each item
• and more!

Sign into monday.com with your Student Google Account

To get started, sign up for a monday.com account according to the instructions below. When you sign up, you will automatically be enrolled in a free 14-day Pro plan trial, after which you can choose to revert to the free student plan or upgrade for a fee. 

monday.com Sign Up Instructions

1. Go to monday.com and click the purple Get started button or go directly to https://auth.monday.com/users/sign_up_new?origin=hp_fullbg_page_header
   
2. Click “Continue with Google” and sign in with your Fordham Gmail account
3. Follow the prompts to set up a password and create an account.
   • Note: This account is managed by monday.com, not Fordham University. If you have any questions about your monday.com account, passwords, or functionality, please contact the monday.com support team for assistance.
4. Once you create an account, you will be granted a 14-day free trial to monday.com Pro. After the trial, you can revert to the free student account or sign up for a paid plan. 

Note: monday.com allows students to create multiple accounts under the same email address. Please ensure you only create one account to avoid confusion. Once you have followed the steps above to create an account, log in using the below method.

Log in to your monday.com Student Account

Once you sign up for a student account, you can log in to monday.com on any browser. 

1. Go directly to https://auth.monday.com/auth/login_monday?dont_redirect=true, or go to monday.com > click the purple Get started button > click login at the bottom
2. Click the Google button to sign in with your Fordham Gmail account. 
1. Do NOT type in your email in the box where it says “Enter your work email address.” Make sure you hit the Google button right below. 
3. Follow the prompts to complete login.

monday.com Troubleshooting

If you go to https://monday.com/ and see a Fordham branded log in screen, make sure you click Login to another account below the big blue button, and follow on screen prompts to complete log in. Do NOT click “Fordham SSO”as this will create a viewer-only monday.com account in which you are unable to create your own boards.