Note: First time users must claim the account before logging in. During the Claim My Account process, you will be issued a username, set a password, and set challenge questions.
Your Username is different from your Student ID Number.
How to "Claim My Account"
- Go to: https://www.grayson.edu
- Click on "MyViking"
- Click on "Claim My Account"
- Select account type: "Student"
- Enter account information
- Passwords must be a minimum of 10 characters in length, and contain 3 of the 4 requirements:
- 1 upper case character
- 1 lower case character
- 1 number
- 1 special character (example: ! @ # $ %, etc)
- Passwords cannot contain:
- Your first name
- Your last name
- Your date of birth
- Your username
- Repeated characters or a sequence of keyboard strokes (example: 1234, mmm888, or asdfg)
- A password you’ve used in the past
- Setup Challenge Questions and Help Desk Questions, click "Next" or “Save” along the bottom
If you receive an error message, please try the following instructions before claiming your account:
- Remove all spaces after the information entered into each field
- Manually type the information and avoid using AutoFill or auto-populated information
- Clear your browser cache and cookies: Instructions
- Open a “new incognito window” in Google Chrome: Instructions
- Try logging in on a different device (phone, tablet, laptop, etc)
- Open a different browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, etc)
Click here for common error messages and resolutions.