Wellness and Prevention Services

We are excited to welcome you to Appalachian State University! We want you to be safe, happy and healthy during your time with us and beyond.

To help further your health and wellness knowledge and skills, all first-year and transfer students are required to complete the following itMatters online course modules by the date indicated in your email.

• Managing Stress as a College Student (15 minutes)

• Supporting Mental Well-being (15 minutes)

• Sleep Wellness (10 minutes)

• Alcohol:

  • Foundations for Understanding Alcohol (20 minutes)

  • Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategies (15 minutes)

• Sexual Violence Prevention: Consent:

  • Sexual Violence Prevention - Foundations (15 minutes)

  • Sexual Violence Prevention - Consent (10 minutes)

• The Hidden Harms of Hazing (15 minutes)

All students who have completed these required modules by the deadline will be entered to win one of ten $25 gift cards to the Campus Store.

What to Expect

You will receive an email to your @appstate.edu email account with login instructions from itMatters (itmatters@preventionstrategies.com). The email may have been delivered before this notice. 

• The message will be tagged as an “external” email. Check your spam folder if you don’t see the message as scheduled. 

• You will receive reminder emails from the same sender until training is complete.

What to Know

• Completing itMatters modules helps build well-being knowledge and skills for success in your first semester at App State.

• Before beginning the modules, you will be asked to complete a survey about your health and well-being. This pre-survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may skip any or all questions and proceed directly to the required modules.

• You can start and stop the modules and your progress will be saved.

• Technical support will be available within each module.

• It is recommended that you complete the itMatters modules on a computer. Using a mobile device may result in your progress not being saved correctly. 

Computers are available at the libraries on the Boone and Hickory campuses.

After receiving the initial email from itMatters, you can access the required course modules by logging in to your itMatters account. 

Instructions will be included in upcoming messages and can also be referenced below:  

• Go to the Prevention Strategies website, which houses the itMatters modules.  

• Your username is your @appstate.edu email in all lowercase.

• Your password is your last name in all lowercase with no spaces. You will be prompted to create a new password when you log in for the first time.

• You may request Technical Support through the button on the left side of your dashboard.

• If you have non-technical support questions about these course modules, please contact us at wellness@appstate.edu.

We look forward to you joining the App State Community!