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Network Operations Center -- Chris Ihm -- 8/2006 On the Dowling networks there are three username/password combinations that you may need to maintain, depending on your duties: By logging in to any Dowling computer system, you agree to abide by the Dowling College Policy on Acceptable Use of Computing Resources. Upon employment at the College, every employee receives a username and password that allows access to the Dowling computing infrastructure, including your desktop PC. Your username and password is like a key to your home; keep it in your possession alone, do not share it with anyone. You are responsible for any activity that emanates from your account. To use your desktop PC, your Dowling e-mail account, BannerWeb, or the PCs in the Library or the Academic Computing Labs, you will need to login. Network, e-mail and BannerWeb accounts are linked: if you change the password on one, the others change automatically, immediately. Instructions for changing your email/network password: http://www.dowling.edu/mydowling/Tech/pwd-change.html. Your username and initial password are assigned by Administrative Information Services upon notification by Human Resources. New employees, including full- and part-time faculty, will usually obtain their username and password from their department. You may also contact the Help Desk at x3445. The process is described in detail here. We advise you to change your password immediately after logging in, and at least every quarter thereafter. The network will require you to change your password at least twice a year. A good, secure password is essential to the security of our computing resources. Read more about passwords at http://www.dowling.edu/mydowling/Tech/good-passwords.html Since the Banner system houses all of our student records, our financial aid information, the College's financial records and many other crucial data collections, security is especially important here.
Your Banner username usually matches your network/email username, but the password must be maintained separately. At the Blackboard site your username and password match those for e-mail, network, and BannerWeb as described above, but they are not linked so they do not automatically synchronize. Faculty must contact the Blackboard support staff at blackboard-at-dowling.edu (replace "-at-" with "@") to setup class shells. If you need assistance, please speak to the folks in Instructional Technology Resources at x3157. You may find it helpful to manually change your Blackboard password to match your network/e-mail password. Find the password-change page after logging in:
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