Due to the distributed nature of accounts at UCSB account management can be confusing. This page will hopefully provide some answers to your questions. Please click on the Table of Contents below to go to a specific answer.
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UCSBnetID - Based on UCSB campus wide Identity. Used to sign into SSO portals.
Google Connect - Email and Google apps like Google drive.
Your default email is your UCSBnetID@ucsb.edu. Almost all other accounts at UCSB use the same Google account for email and give you additional email aliases, which you can see under settings (gear icon) >> see all settings >> accounts.
Defaults to campus SSO, but can be signed into using a variety of methods.
College Level Accounts - The College of Engineering, like the other 3 Colleges that make up UCSB has their own account system. They are not mutually exclusive and people can have accounts from multiple colleges.
CoE accounts grant you access to CoE resources such as the CSIL/Honea labs, CoE software, and CoE email aliases such as UCSBnetID@engineering.ucsb.edu and UCSBnetID@dept.ucsb.edu.
Coe Account invites are sent to everyone who is taking CoE class or research units if they do not already have a CoE account.
CoE accounts are not created automatically.
Already existing CoE accounts are reactivated and extended even if they are expired.
To see your current CoE information including expiration date, please login to: https://accounts.engr.ucsb.edu/maintain/login
Service accounts - These are accounts that provide you access to a particular service such as the UCSB Library or Adobe Federated ID for those whose departments have purchased Adobe Licenses through the Campus office of Software Licensing. Many accounts use SSO as a default, but can use their own logins if SSO is not available.
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UCSBnetID - rolling expiration date based on enrollment or employment or other affiliation with UCSB. College of Engineering (CoE) - 30 days (1 month) after UCSBnetID expires assuming you are actively enrolled in CoE class or research units. For faculty, employees, researchers and affiliates, when your contract is renewed, your CoE expiration date can be manually set to be 7 days after the end of said contract, same date as Google Connect expiration. Please note that when you renew your UCSBnetID, such as getting a contract extension, we are not automatically informed unless you ask us to be informed. We can manually set expiration dates, but please note that UCSB policy is that all accounts have to have expiration dates. Accounts cannot be extended 'indefinitely' or "to graduation". Please see https://ucsb-engr.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EPK/pages/575373570/Account+Extension?src=search Umail - not all students have umail accounts since they are provided by the College of Letters and Sciences. Umail expiration date is 13 months after UCSBnetID expiration as they do not provide any form of manual extension or alumni forwarding. Google Connect - For Students: expires when the last alias is removed or 13 months after UCSBnetID expiration, whichever comes first. If you only have a CoE account it will have the same expiration date as your CoE account. If you have a umail alias, Connect generally will expire a full year after CoE expiration when your umail expires. For Staff, Faculty, Researchers and Affiliates UCSB ETS/ITS has stated as of April 2024 they will start expiring Connect accounts 7 days after UCSBnetID expiration regardless of alias status. Meaning if you want to have email after leaving UCSB or your latest position, you need to contact your home department to either extend your UCSBnetID or set up a 0% (unpaid) appointment or be converted to a UCSB affiliate. Please note as of January 2024 affiliate status can only be extended 1 year at a time. Please also note that ONLY YOUR HOME DEPARTMENT has the ability to alter UCSBnetIDS. Everyone has a home department. even if you are an even 5 way split between 5 different departments, one of those departments will be listed in Identity as your home department.
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