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Computer Accounts and Keycards

Opening an Account

To open a computing account on the Department's machines go to the Gould-Simpson Bldg. 9th floor, during the first week of classes and follow the instructions posted as you leave the elevator. This will also provide access to the appropriate laboratory: Gould-Simpson 228 or Gould-Simpson 930). Signs will direct you to a group of dedicated machines that run the Department account initialization program. Obtain a copy of the Appropriate Use Guidelines and the Statement of Understanding from the hardcopy stock supplied near the machines. Read these guidelines carefully as you will be held accountable for them!

The account initialization program will prompt for your Student Identification Number, and other identifying information. Your account information and UA registration will be verified, and an account will be created for you. You can pick up your building and lab access keycard after a few minutes. Note that you will need a photographic identification card in order to pick up your access card. Your accounts are usually available within 24 hours, but may take as long as three working days. This means simply that if you wait until the day before an assignment is due, you may miss your class assignment completion date! Unless the automated account creation procedure is known to be broken, the Department will not create user accounts by hand in order to meet student assignment deadlines.

If you do not understand and have questions, you may go to the Main Office in Gould-Simpson 917 for help.

Appropriate Use Guidelines

Accounts on the Department's machines are to be used only for work on courses offered by the Department of Computer Science. When you sign the statement entitled Appropriate Use Guidelines, you are pledging to abide by all the lab use policies of the Department. These policies also form part of the special rules of academic integrity established for Computer Science classes under the Code of Academic Integrity. Violation of these policies will result in cancellation of your account, and other possible sanctions under the Code. Therefore, make sure you understand the terms and conditions before signing the Statement of Understanding.

Building and Lab Access

You will be issued an electronic access keycard for gaining access to the building and the laboratory assigned to your course. These keycards give access at any hour and any day of the week. This keycard belongs to the Department and must be returned at the end of the semester. A charge will be levied for all cards not returned by the end of semester date as posted.

Unix Login Name and Password

You will be assigned a login name (or userid, or username) and an initial password for use on your lectura and Windows accounts. Your initial password will be the six character string that you choose during the creation of your account. When you log in to Windows, and separately to lectura, for the first time, you will be forced to change it to a secure password (containing at least 6 characters, one of which must be a numeral or special character and the 6 characters should not be a word from a dictionary). See Rules for acceptable passwords for information on choosing strong passwords.

E-mail

Instructors and systems administrators will communicate with you via e-mail sent to your UA email account. You are responsible for reading email sent to that address. You may set up forwarding from that email address to send the mail to another system where you read mail regularly. See Reading Department E-mail Remotely and University and CS E-mail Accounts, Requirements and Use for more on e-mail and our Computing Information Pages for lots of other helpful information.

Last updated Monday, 21-Jan-2008 17:06:12 MST, by Sandra Miller
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