IU E-mail and Computer Accounts

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How to set up your IU e-mail and computer accounts

If you applied online and have paid your application fee, you should be able to set up your IU e-mail and computer accounts.  If you applied by paper application, once you have submitted your Residence Classification form and application fee, you should be able to set up your IU e-mail and computer accounts.  However, please note that some students (in particular international students) will not be able to set up their accounts until just a few weeks before Orientation. 

Please complete this step before you arrive for New Student Orientation.

To create and activate your IU e-mail and computer accounts, simply go to http://itaccounts.iu.edu/ and follow the step by step directions.  For example, your first step is to click on the "Create my first IU computing accounts" link.  At the end of the process you will have an IU Network ID and password (used to log on to IU computers), and an IU e-mail account.  It will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.  Be sure to write down/remember your IU username and password.  You will use these for accessing your IU e-mail account, logging in to IU computers, and for registration.

You can go to this website to set up your accounts from any computer with internet access. 

The Music Graduate Office often needs to send important notices and reminders to graduate students, and to do this we usually use e-mail.  E-mail is considered an official form of communication by Indiana University, and it is each student's responsibility to regularly check your IU e-mail accounts.  You can set your IU e-mail account up so that it is automatically forwarded to another account (such as hotmail) by following the directions here: http://kb.indiana.edu./data/beoj.html. 

Other sources of help with IU computer accounts:

UITS-IUB Support Center
Herman B. Wells Library Information Commons (corner of 10th Street and Jordan Avenue)
Phone support available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week -  812-855-6789
E-mail support available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week -  ithelp@indiana.edu

The Indiana University Knowledge Base is a database of over 8,500 answers to questions about computing at Indiana University.  The website is at http://kb.indiana.edu.  For example, a search for “Descriptions of available accounts at IUB” will show you a list and description of the computer accounts that are available to all IU students and how to access these accounts.

About IU e-mail

Official University email accounts are available for all registered students. The University reserves the right to send official communications to you by email with the full expectation that you will receive and read these emails in a timely fashion.

As a student, you are expected to check your email on a frequent and consistent basis in order to stay current with university-related communications. By doing so, you also avoid going over your email quota and missing important emails.

NOTE: If you choose to have your email forwarded from your official University email address to another address, you do so at your own risk.

The University is not responsible for any difficulties that may occur in the proper or timely transmission or access to email forwarded to any other address, and any such problems will not absolve students of their responsibility to know and comply with the content of official communications sent to their official IU email addresses.

For more on the University's official mail policy, see: http://kb.iu.edu/data/aozw.html

(This information is supplied by UITS).