Getting a UIC Netid

A UIC network ID, or netid, is a public identifier used to identify yourself for your ACCC accounts and services. A netid is also needed to access UIC and University of Illinois online and Web services, including UIC Human Resources online systems, students' my.UIC.edu portal accounts, and to establish an Enterprise ID for accessing UI Enterprise Applications. Your UIC netid is part of your UIC email address (netid@UIC.EDU) and is used to login to my.UIC.edu, UIC-Wireless, ACCC email accounts, and the ACCC Unix servers, among other things.

Your netid is not a password. It is not an account, itself, but you need one to open an account.

An Enterprise ID is not the same as a UIC netid. Although in most cases a person's Enterprise ID is created to match their netid, it is important to keep in mind that they cannot be used interchangeably. Each provides access to a different set of services and each has its own password.

Note: all UIC netids are all lower case. You can type them in mixed case in your email address if you want, but not when you're using them to login.

Faculty and staff can pick a netid through their departmental Phonebook Contact Person, who can register the netid in the Online Phonebook.

Use the following form to find the Phonebook Contacts for your department (or just leave the Department field blank if you want the full, rather long, list of Phonebook Contacts).

Almost any unique netid is acceptable; first come, first served. The netid must have a minimum of three characters and a maximum of eight characters. Letters and numbers are permitted, but other characters are not. For example, Ada Byron Lovelace might choose adabyron as her netid. (In fact, she did.)

Once chosen, a netid cannot be easily changed, so please choose it carefully. Remember that the netid is a public identifier, and will probably be put on your business card.

Netids are registered immediately, so you can go on to select a password and open your account(s) after your netid is registered.

Students are automatically assigned netids when they are admitted. By convention, UIC student netids are of the form flllll##, where f is the first letter of the student's first name, lllll are the first five letters of the student's last name, and ## is a number, from 1 and up, to ensure the netid is unique. For example, if Ada Byron was a student, her netid might be abyron12.

There are occasional exceptions to the conventions used for student netids, mostly in cases where a new student already has an Enterprise ID or a netid from another UI campus at the time they are admitted to UIC. Not all UI campuses employ the same conventions for establishing netids. A netid, once created at any UI campus, will usually (but not always) be propagated through the Enterprise system to all UI campuses that the person becomes affiliated with.

Student netids are automatically added to the Online Phonebook.

Phonebook Search form
Links to search the Online Phonebook are everywhere, including the top part of the UIC home page and the bottom left of all ACCC Web pages.

• Activating Your Netid and Getting Accounts for email or other purposes. (Activating your netid means getting an ACCC common password to go with your netid. After you get an ACCC common password, you can open an ACCC email or Unix account if you wish.)
• Using Electronic Mail
• Quick Facts for Email and Email Addresses
• Need help? Contact the CSO