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Skidmore College
Information Technology

IT Account 支持

创建帐户

This process starts with the 注册商 for students and 人力资源 for employees. Until those 办公室s enter your personal information, you cannot create your new 账户.

You will need your Skidmore ID number to create your 账户. 学生: Your Skidmore ID number was provided within your admissions acceptance letter. 教师/staff: You will need to contact 人力资源 to obtain your Skidmore ID number.    

Create an 账户

Student Account Activation Instructions

注意: Account creation is instant. However access to Okta Applications takes at least a 半小时 after the 账户 has been created. 

Additionally access to Oracle is not granted until your official hire date, or until you have an active social security number.

Guests who are affiliated with 学院 and have a need to log onto college-owned equipment may obtain a temporary user名字 and password. The 账户 may last from one day to two weeks. It allows logging onto 电脑 or wireless.

Employees may request guest access in advance of a speaking engagement or conference for individual(s). The employee can put in a help ticket 在这里. The employee will need to provide information such as visitor's 名字, external email, phone number, and the time period the guest access will be needed, etc.

Skidmore College has special Wi-Fi for those guests who are not logging onto college-owned 电脑. Please point your device to the Wi-Fi access point 名字d 火博体育客人. You need to accept the policy on appropriate use and you need to provide your email address. Instructions on how to get connected can be found 在这里.

Employees and students must not use 火博体育客人. It does not provide access to college resources such as printing, theSpring and student systems.

Managing Your Account

If your legal 名字 has changed, please visit the 注册商 (students) or 人力资源 (faculty/staff) to have the change made in our systems. Once made, the change will be reflected in our systems within the next 24hours.

If you wish to have your user名字 changed, an alias can be made to match your new 名字. To have this done please enter a help ticket 在这里.

If you would like to see your displayed 名字 changed, but it has not be legally changed, please visit the 注册商 (students) or 人力资源 (faculty/staff) to have the change made in our systems. Once made, the change will be reflected in our systems within the next 24hours. This will not effect any system that displays legal information.

密码

For your security, Skidmore requires that your password be between eight (8) and sixteen (16) characters in length. It must contain at least two (2) letters, with a minimum of one (1) upper case and one (1) lower case, and at least one (1) numeric character. The following are the five (5) acceptable characters to be used as part of the password:
! # : . ,

The password may not match three consecutive characters of your user 名字, nor may it be an exact reversal of your user 名字.

Avoid using consecutive characters of your first, middle or last 名字 in your password. Doing so will cause your password to fail for email.

You may not reuse passwords; a different password is required each time. 你不是 able to rearrange or reverse the current password in order to create a new password. 

Change your password 在这里

Instructions on how to change your password are located 在这里. If you need help, feel free to contact the 帮助台.

 

Policies and Procedures

账户closes

学生

  • Withdrawals: Your 账户 will be closed on the day that your 账户 is marked as 撤销.

校友

    • 电子邮件 账户s are maintained for as long as Microsoft continues to provide our mail 服务. All other 服务s will end the day you graduate.
    • For alumni who graduated after 2020, you will continue to log in at 火博体育.okta.com and use the same user名字 you had been using while you were attending Skidmore.
    • For alumni who graduate between the years of 2008 to 2020, Your login and primary address will change to user名字@alumni.火博体育.edu. To log into your email you will need to go to 前景.办公室.com/alumni.火博体育.edu. Your previous address, user名字@火博体育.edu, will deliver email to the new Inbox. 

教师

  • Access to your email, Onedrive, and theSpring should remain for 30days after you leave 学院. However, we recommend you prepare to have your information backed up the day that your contract ends.

工作人员

  • Based on information provided by 人力资源, an automatic process occurs and access to your Skidmore 账户 is closed based off of an end date given by them.

退休人员

  • If you are an official retiree of 学院, you may keep your email 账户 into 退休. Access to all other systems will end the day you retire.
  • 学生: After an item has been in your Deleted Items folder for 14天, the Exchange email server will remove them.
  • 员工: After an item has been in your Deleted Items folder for 30天, the Exchange email server will remove them. 

Forwarding Skidmore email to another 账户

Never forward any confidential or protected information to a personal email 账户. Most personal email 账户s do not have the privacy and security necessary to handle confidential Skidmore information.

Never use your Skidmore email 账户 to setup a third-party 账户 (such as Amazon, iTunes等.)

Never use your Skidmore email address and password to setup an external, third-party 账户. If your 账户 gets compromised on these sites, you are putting all of your Skidmore 账户 information at risk. Always use a third party email 账户 (gmail, yahoo, roadrunner, Comcast, etc.) to create third-party 账户s.

 

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