Students learning online may have to deal with several passwords to gain access to all the parts of their course(s). Unfortunately, the databases at UCF are not yet interconnected. This also explains why your personal information appears outdated in some places and not others. Software has been purchased and programmers are now working to interconnect all student information; meanwhile, we have multiple passwords to consider.

*Notes:

• You must change your password or PIN the first time you log on to your account on any system (PC LAN, Pegasus and Polaris). If you change your password on one system, this does not change your password on another system. You will be required to change your LAN and Pegasus passwords every two months.
• If you forget your LAN or Pegasus passwords, you can get them reset by asking a lab consultant or by going to CC2 Room 102 (you will need a picture ID).
• If you are a remote student and you cannot get into your course, your professor may request your passwords to be reset without requiring you to come to campus.

UCF PC LAN

You may only access your LAN account from the campus labs. Depending on which lab you go to, there are three different ways to login to the PC LAN: NT, Macintosh, and DOS. However, your userID and password are the same for all three.

UserID Your userID consists of your initials and the last five digits of your student ID number. Use your name and student ID number as it appears on your UCF records.	Password Your password consists of the first four digits of your student ID number followed by your birth month and your birth day, each as two digits. This is your default password.
Example userID and password Name: Joe P. Student DOB: February 1 Student ID #: 123-45-6789 userID: jps56789 or js56789 password: 12340201

For more information about the PC LAN, see: The PC LAN, later in this section.

Pegasus Accounts

All students, faculty and staff are automatically given a Pegasus e-mail account which allows them to access the campus network from a modem or from on campus in the labs. You UserID for Pegasus will always be the same as the PC LAN UserID. Your initial password for Pegasus is the same as the PC LAN. Once you change either one, it does not change the other. You will have to change each account individually if you want them to be the same.

*Note - if you have an Internet service provider (ISP) such as AT&T WorldNet, Sprint Passport, Magicnet, Internet Access Group or America Online then you may not need to use your Pegasus account unless you come to campus and need to log onto campus computers in the labs. One of the benefits of using your Pegasus account remotely is to access full text articles from the UCF library.

For more information about accessing your Pegasus account remotely, see: Remote Access Configuration.

Polaris

This is UCF's newest information service. Polaris is designed to give you access to your personal information remotely through a secure web server. Through Polaris you can register online, see your HOLDS status, review your transcript report and check your grades. You will need to remember your PIN (personal identification number) consisting of four numbers ####. This number is initially set to the month and day of your birth. If your birthday is May 2nd, your initial PIN is: 0502. You will need to change this PIN the first time you login to Polaris.

*Note - Polaris is also connected to the computer Information Kiosks and TouchTone registration system on campus. If you change your password for any of these, the others will also change. If you forget your PIN, you must go to the Registrar's Office to have it reset.

For more information about Polaris, see: Polaris

From your course home page, when you click on:

Student Directories (Student List)

This brings up a form that allows you to maintain your student information made available to your professors and classmates in most online courses. To access this area you will need a login i.d. and password, which will be given to you at orientation. As a rule they are:

• Login: your initials plus the last five digits of your Student ID#
  (i.e. Christopher Martin Simms, Student ID# 123-45-6789 would be: cms56789 or cs56789)
  
• Password: the first 4 digits of your Student ID#

You will use the same login and password every time you need to change your student information or if you want to send e-mail to your classmates, type in your Student ID number and the password you chose.

Class Login

A box appears that prompts you to type in a username and password. This button is for using WebCT computer conferencing and accessing some of the course pages depending upon whether your professor chose to set the class up this way. In WebCT, every person has an individual login. During the first week of classes a class roll is entered into the class account. To access this area you will need a login I.D. and password, identical to the ones used for the Student List. They are:

• Login: your initials plus the last five digits of your Student ID#
  (i.e. Christopher Martin Simms, Student Id# 123-45-6789 would be: cms56789 or cs56789)
  
• Password: the first 4 digits of your Student Id#

Most fully web-based courses reside on the Reach Server, whose web address is: http://reach.ucf.edu. Course web page addresses are usually made up of the Reach address and the prefix of the course. For example, Graduate Research (EDF6481), has a web page address of all lower case letters: http://reach.ucf.edu/~edf6481. Occasionally, there are exceptions. If two sections of a class are running, there may be two Reach accounts: edf6481 and edf6481a may be present. The addresses would be: http://reach.ucf.edu/~edf6481 and http://reach.ucf.edu/~edf6481a. A listing of all available courses can be found at: Distributed Learning - Courses and Programs.