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Network Account.
Your network account will be required whenever you access a lab computer.
This account provides you access to dialup, email, web services, and your
personal storage area (home directory). This is one account with one
password. It will be vitally important that you do not share you account
information. Your network account name is calculated via your first initial,
your last name, and the last four digits of your student id #. If you
were a Co-lin student prior to the Fall of 2002, your id is most likely your
ssn. Beginning in October of 2002, student ID's no loner use the SSN.
Please consult your registration paperwork to locate your student ID. A typical account name
would be in the format jdoe6789. Your initial password will be set to your
date of birth in the format of mmddyyyy. If you were born May 3, 1983 then
your password is 05031983. You should change your password as soon as
possible.
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Email Account.
While you are a student at Co-lin you will have an official email account.
This is the account that your instructor will accept
as your email address and official notices will be sent to this account.
A typical student email address may look as follows:
jdoe6789@st.colin.edu. The first portion of this email address is also
the student account name for network login on campus. You may use POP3
(Outlook Express, Eudora, etc) clients to access your mail or you may have
access to our web mail server. Web mail can accessed at
https://mail.colin.edu/exchange. The web mail site uses secure socket
layer connections. You may use the options section of webmail to change your
password. Make sure you have updated your IE to the latest version and are
using 128 bit encryption. Check out the short tutorial on web mail at
http://www.colin.edu/EmailServers.htm . It is very important that you use
your campus account for official communications with your instructors.
Please do not provide Hotmail or Yahoo, etc accounts
to your instructors if you are engaged in an online class or a traditional
class where assignments are submitted via email.
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AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED. Your account is automatically generated for
you during the registration process.