Usernames and Passwords for Students

Network Operations Center -- 8/2007

Your network/email/student-records account is automatically created the morning after you register for your first class. By using your account you agree to abide by the Dowling College Policy on Acceptable Use of Computing Resources.

Your account gives you access to email, to the PCs in the Computer Labs, and to the Student Records system. When you change the password on one, the password on the others are automatically changed.

Blackboard access is managed separately - click here for details
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So how do you login?

Username:

Find your username by visiting http://username.dowling.edu. At the username site you will activate your account, which is necessary in order to login. You will need:

  1. Your Social Security number, or
  2. If you are an International student, your I-20 number.
The username site will set your password to a random value which you should write down. You should change it immediately...see below.

All student usernames consist of three letters followed by one or more digits.

Note: lower case is required.

Password:

If this is the first time you are using your Dowling account, you cannot access your account until you activate it by visiting http://username.dowling.edu. There you will receive a random temporary password which you should write down. What you do next depends on where you are:

  • If you are in a Computer Lab on-campus, startup the PC and login with your username and temporary password. The PC will ask you to change it as soon as you login.
  • If you are anywhere else, browse to http://email.dowling.edu and login with your username and temporary password. The system will ask you to change it as soon as you login.

You can also change your password while you're logged in to email - just follow the instructions here.

Choose a good password! It MUST be at least 8 characters long, and should contain numbers as well as letters; a little punctuation couldn't hurt, either. Don't use the password Hilton2Jail! but that's an example of an easy to remember but hard to hack password. Be creative! More suggestions are at good-passwords.html.

Changes, Questions, Password Resets...

We cannot change your initially-assigned username. To do so would break many back-end links and make your online experience at Dowling very frustrating. Please don't ask.

You can reset your password at any time by visiting http://username.dowling.edu and identifying yourself with your Social Security Number (which will be hidden when you type it on-screen).

If your Social Security Number is not in our Student Records System, you will not be able to activate your network/email account. Visit the Update Directory Information page to update your personal information.

If you have any questions or if you have problems logging in please contact the Help Desk at (631) 244-3445 during normal business hours or visit the Academic Computing Center in Racanelli Center, Rudolph (Oakdale) Campus.

Note: You can also change your password through your GroupWise email account, or after logging in at the Computer Labs. Step-by-step instructions are at http://www.dowling.edu/mydowling/tech/pwd-change.html .

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