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Student Computer Accounts
Your username is the first four characters of your last name and the last four digits of your Student ID number. Then your password is your whole Student ID number.
(Note: Your Student ID number is not the same as your Social Security number).
Logon Example:
Name: Henry Jones
Student ID number: 123456789
Username: jone6789
Password: 123456789
(If you have an aspostrophe ( ' ) in your last name,just leave it out.)
Example: O'Donnell would be odon
(Also if you have a hyphen ( - ) in your last name, just leave it out.)
Example: Cox-Smith would be coxs
Also if you have a space ( ) in your last name, just leave it out.
MSC recommends that you change your password.
After logging on to a campus computer press control, alt, delete and select change password.
To change your password in Outlook Web Access go to options then select change password. Your Domain is MSC.
Changing your password in one of the above changes it for computer login, email and Blackboard.
Your student Home Directory is located either under "My Computer" as O:\ or by using the "My Documents" folder.
Each student is allocated 50 MB of space. More can be allocated on an individual basis if needed. You must contact Computer Services in person to request more space.
Passwords can be reset in person only. A current Murray State College Student ID will be required.
NO EXCEPTIONS.
Additional Blackboard information
Employee Computer Accounts
To receive a MSC computer account you first must read and agree to the MSC Acceptable Usage Policy.
Print out and sign this sheet and deliver it to the I.T. Department.
Each employee has access to their departmental folder on Common and their Home Directory.
Common is located under My Computer, Common on Enterprise or M:\.
Home Directories are located under My Computer, username on Enterprise or N:\.
MSC recommends that ALL files of importance are stored in/on one of these two networked directories.
Both Common and Home Directories are backed up nightly with four weeks of archives stored in a safety deposit box.
Remote access to Common and your Home Directory is provided by ssh.
Any sftp client is capable of accessing the directories. MSC recommends this one here.
The hostname is vpn.mscok.edu and your username and password are the same ones you use to log on to MSC's computers.
The file can be provided on CD if you come by the I.T. Department.