ResNet (wired) and TigerNet2 (wireless) networks
Email accounts, mailing lists, web pages, and passwords
Public computing labs and printing
Responsible use of shared bandwidth
Help Desk support (x6449)
Instructional technology in the classroom
Employment opportunities in IM

Email accounts, mailing lists, web pages, and passwords

All CC students, staff and employees have access to e-mail.  Accounts are hosted on a Microsoft Exchange server.  These accounts can be accessed using any Web browser (such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari) from any machine connected to the Internet by clicking the “Check E-Mail” link on the CC home page .  You can also check e-mail by configuring Microsoft Outlook or by setting up a POP client (e.g., Outlook Express, Eudora, Mac Mail etc.) on your personal computer.

You will receive your username and password in a separate mailing before you arrive.  Be sure to log into your account as soon as possible.

Here are Instructions for changing your default password.  (The easiest way to change your password is to log onto a lab computer at CC, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete, and then click the “Change Password” button).  If you lose your account information, the Help Desk staff can reset your password (just drop by the office in Tutt Library 13 with your student ID).  You are granted 100 MB of e-mail server space.  Each e-mail message (sent or received) is limited to 10 MB in size, but Colorado College provides an anonymous FTP site for larger file transfers: ftp://file-exchange.coloradocollege.edu/.

Your e-mail address will be: firstname.lastname@ColoradoCollege.edu.  Please note that your username will be “first initial_last name.”  For example, Sam Student’s e-mail address would be sam.student@ColoradoCollege.edu, while his or her username would be s_student.  Usernames must be unique so occasionally middle initials are used.

We strongly encourage you to regularly use your CC e-mail account, even if it is in addition to another one (e.g., Hotmail, Yahoo, or GMail).  Many important campus messages are shared only on CC email, and Microsoft Outlook offers many other important organizing and messaging tools.  We also offer free “spam” or junk e-mail protection for your CC account through Postini (a postini filter is set up for everyone by default).

Colorado College has approximately 200 mailing lists, or listservs.  Students are automatically subscribed to STUDENT-L, which is a digest of important announcements. (Similar lists exist for faculty and staff as well).  Announcements come from Colorado College staff and official student groups and cover topics such as registration deadlines, campus activities, and workshops and seminars.  Some courses use mailing lists to foster class discussion outside of class, and some student groups and campus organizations have their own listservs.  Important and time-sensitive messages are posted to the entire campus using an account named “FLASH.”  Some announcements are made only on the Student Digest. We encourage you to read it!

Each student is given 225 MB of storage space on the student server for personal files and Web pages. (This is separate from your e-mail quota.)  The 225 MB allotment is divided between your “W:” drive for Web page development (25 MB) and your “H:” drive for file storage (200 MB).  All CC students can create their own Web sites.  Most do so in the context of a certain course (with requirements for an online portfolio or an integrative project), but you are welcome to create your own Web page just for fun.  We support Adobe Dreamweaver / Contribute and Microsoft FrontPage as campus Web authoring tools.  Once you arrive (the link only works from on campus), you can visit the following URL to get started: https://nsg.ColoradoCollege.edu/webpersonaldir/policy.asp.