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Your NetID was created from the initials of your name, as it appears in the university database, followed by a number. If you are a student, the database used is the University Registrar's Student Information System (SIS). If you are a staff or faculty member, the database used is the Human…
Yes. Your NetID is a part of your permanent university record, and will never be assigned to another person.
Yes, your NetID can be changed, but only in very specific circumstances, such as a legal name change. Despite our best efforts, the process remains cumbersome and takes time to propagate across all the university's many systems.To request that your NetID be changed, please submit the IT Service…
Yes—in fact, you may already have one. Anyone who attended Cornell since 1990 should have a NetID. Contact the IT Service Desk for help. You will need to verify your identity over a video chat with a valid form of ID.
Members of the Cornell CommunityStudents, faculty, staff, and alumni. The faculty and staff category includes full-time and part-time faculty; visiting faculty; professors emeriti; full-time, part-time, and temporary staff; and retirees who are receiving Cornell benefits.The student category…
Instructor-led workshops and classes are offered on a variety of topics, including Microsoft 365 (Access, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word), and Adobe Creative Cloud (Captivate, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop). IT professional technical courses on networking,…
Who Can Join?
What is SafeDNS?
SafeDNS helps protect computers from websites that host malicious software.
DNS Defined
DNS (Domain Name Service) allows computers on the Internet to have human-readable names. For example, DNS translates www.cornell.edu to the computer-readable address 132.236.204.10.
To access the My Computers page from off-campus, while traveling or from home, use the Virtual Private Network (VPN).
To see the devices you have registered on the network, go to the My Computers page.
Policies
Users of Cornell University’s IT resources are subject to local, state, and federal laws, as well as University IT policies. See Responsible Use of Information Technology Resources for what this means for you.
This page refers to eduroam passwords.
These instructions are for computers using Certified Desktop. To connect a personal device, please use our onboarding tool.
Select eduroam from the Airport menu bar.
No, not while you are a student. All students have Google Workspace accounts; all official university communications are sent to this address.
You can choose to access your messages through another email app (if you don't like Google's interface).
You can share the Google Docs associated with your Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) account in a number of ways. Each document can be shared with
No one
Only the people you specify (through their Google Workspace account)
Anyone who has the link to the document
Anyone
For…
There is no charge to students, faculty, staff, or visitors for using Wi-Fi.
Note: If you are a departmental coordinator interested in having Wi-Fi access installed, please see Department Installation Information.
Cornell students, faculty, staff, and visitors from other eduroam-participating institutions, should use eduroam to securely connect to the internet.
Welcome to the Cornell campus. To access the internet, you must register to use the Cornell-Visitor network. Follow the steps below.
Adware – software that displays advertisements; you may see popup ads or a small window or bar that displays ads in your browser.Back door – a means of accessing your computer that bypasses computer security mechanisms.Back up (verb) – to copy an electronic record to ensure its information will not…
Forgotten Password?NetIDIf you know your NetID but cannot remember your password, follow the steps for requesting a replacement password in the information about NetIDs web page.GuestIDTo change your GuestID password, or to recover your password should you lose it follow these directions.
Most CIT-affiliated websites that require authentication support the use of CUWebLogin. Websites maintained by other departments frequently do, but it is possible that you may have to authenticate in another way. If you have questions about how to sign in to a website that is not maintained by CIT,…
The ADFS screen pictured above is the login portal for accessing: