How to Purchase a Virtual Parking Permit—MIRAMAR POLICE ACADEMY STUDENTS

How to Purchase a Virtual Parking Permit—MIRAMAR POLICE ACADEMY STUDENTS

How to Purchase a Virtual Parking Permit

For Police Academy students at San Diego Miramar College

Before you begin: See What to know before you purchase

For trouble shooting visit this section.

Already have a permit, but need to update your vehicle information? see How to Update Your Vehicle information—City, Mesa, Miramar Colleges

Students who are currently enrolled can buy one parking permit for a car and one parking permit for a motorcycle each academic term (Summer, Fall, Spring).

If you get a new vehicle or drive a different one, please update your vehicle information.

Instructions:

  1. Login to http://my.sdccd.edu  and click on the "College Student Dashboard"

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  2. If you do not see the navigation menu on the left, click the tab with two parallel lines to expand the menu:

click to expand left navigation menu

Left navigation menu looks like this.

left navigation bar on college student dashboard
  1. Navigate to “My Finances”, then click “Parking Permit”

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  1. Confirm that your name and ID appear in “Student Data”. Click Enter to be redirected to the getaPERMIT site.
    (It may take a few seconds to connect, and it may look like nothing is happening.)

Get a Virtual Parking Permit landing page
  1. On the “Information Panel”:

Review your student information. Enter your student email address in “Verify Email” field, then click “NEXT”.

Student Information panel
  1. Select the permit for your “POST” Academy, then click “NEXT”

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  1. Enter the vehicle License plate number, Make, and Color.

Enter your license plate number carefully! Mistakes can result in a ticket.

If your license plate is issued by a state outside California, choose the correct state.

Click “NEXT”.

Enter vehicle information

8. Review your order.

  • Review “Terms of Sale” and “Privacy Policy” and check the box indicating you agree.

  • Click “PAY NOW BY CREDIT CARD” to proceed to payment screen and complete your purchase. Skip to Step 9.

  • If you want to pay with cash, click the button that says “PAY CASHIER”. This will hold your vehicle information in your shopping cart. Then, you will need to pay in person. Your permit will not work until your payment is received in one of the following locations.

These campuses accept cash in the following offices:

City College Police V-100

Mesa College Police Q-100

Miramar College Police T-100

ECC – Student Services Center

 

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If another department (like Veterans Chapter 31 or EOPS) pays for your permit, the cost will show as $0. If it doesn't, contact that program. They will work with Student Accounting to correct it. Then, you will need to delete the incorrect permit from your cart. See Troubleshooting A below.

  1. Enter payment information.

You can choose where your confirmation email is sent. If you prefer it to go to your personal email instead of your student email, you can change the email on this page.

Click “Pay”.

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  1. Payment completed successfully.

Click “Continue”.

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  1. Permit Successfully Ordered.

Your license plate is the permit number. There is nothing to display on your vehicle.

Process is complete. Click “Home” icon in top right corner to return to Student Dashboard.

More information about Parking Permits

Parking Services Contact Information:

619-388-6416 Monday - Thursday; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday 8 a.m. to noon

or email parking@sdccd.edu

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