Campus Phone & Voicemail

Whitman College is in the midst of replacing campus phone and voicemail system. View the detailed implementation schedule/status. Until the project is completed in August 2008, please note the following:

You can still access the documentation for the old system.
You can also view who's on the new system. 

setup and use my voicemail?

place a call?

• Lift handset OR Press the “New Call” softkey
• Dial Number

access call history (list of missed calls, received calls, and calls that I've placed)?

• Press the Directories button on your phone, you will see missed calls, received calls, placed calls and a corporate directory.
• Press missed, received or placed calls. You will see the last 99 calls in the category.

look up a campus phone number?

• Press the Directories button on your phone. Corporate Directory is one of the choices.
• Follow the instruction to look up any Whitman number.

put a caller on hold?

• Press the "Hold" button or "Hold" softkey.
• To reconnect, press the same button/softkey. On multi-line phone, press the line button.

transfer a call?

• Press the "Transfer" softkey, dial the number you would like to transfer to, and press "Transfer" again.

activate call-forwarding?

• Press the "CFwdALL" softkey, dial the number you want to forward to.
• If you want calls forwarded to your voice mail, press "CFwdALL", then press "voicemail" button.
• To deactivate, press the "CFwdALL" again.

Advanced Telephone Features - including "how to choose your ring tone"