1. identification number
Your ID number is the seven digit number, second from the right on your ID card.

2. eligibility
students: You must be registered for the current term with no holds on your student record for non-payment of fees. Your accounts will remain active as long as you are registered. If you are registered at the end of winter term, your accounts will remain active during the summer.

employees: You can claim your account(s) once you have been processed through Human Resources. This may take a few days. Employee accounts remain active until employment ends. Sessional employees who are temporarily terminated and staff who are not employed directly by the UofM may be able to get a sponsored account through their department.

3. accounts
You will be assigned the same userid and password for all accounts. You can change the passwords later.

Students are given a UMnetID and an INS id.
UMnetID: jump, webct, and ccu services (email, personal homepage, internet, laptop ports, wireless network, dial-up, Unix, disk space, printing, Software Express)
INS: use of PCs in student computer labs for internet access, instructional software, disk space, printing

Employees can choose from the following list.
UMnetID: jump, webct, and ccu services (email, personal homepage, internet, laptop ports, wireless network, dial-up, Unix, disk space, printing, Software Express)
CNS: required if your department uses the Novell Netware system
INS: use of computers in classrooms and student PC labs
Aurora: departmental authorization is required

For help in choosing employee accounts, see your computer representative or umanitoba.ca/ist/accounts.

INS and CNS accounts are created immediately. During the day, UMnetID and Aurora accounts are processed within half an hour. Response will be slower during busy periods and system maintenance.

4. privacy information for students
Your name, faculty, and UofM email address are publicly available on the university web site using the People search tool. If you prefer to be unlisted, uncheck the "public email address" box at the end of the accounts list in claimid. You may change this option at any time while you are a student by going through claimid.

5. forwarding email, changing passwords, managing accounts
UMnetID: mail.cc.umanitoba.ca
INS id: start > ins programs > utilities > ins password change

6. reading email
umanitoba.ca/jump
umanitoba.ca/webmail

7. account limits and charges

8. need help?
Claiming your userid or changing your password: Computer Accounts Administrator, 010B Dafoe Tunnel, (204) 474-9788, computer_accounts@umanitoba.ca. For security reasons, you may have to visit the office in person with your identification card.

Using your account: ACN Support Desk, 010 Dafoe Tunnel, (204) 474-8600, support@umanitoba.ca.

At Bannatyne: IST Bannatyne Help Desk, S206 Medical Services, (204) 789-3541, help_desk@umanitoba.ca.

For information about IST accounts and services, visit umanitoba.ca/ist.