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Members of the Cornell Community
Students, 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…
A Network ID (or NetID) is a personal, unique identifier assigned to you. It consists of your initials followed by one or more numbers. You use it, along with a password, to obtain access to online services, such as email and administrative systems.
A password is required with your NetID to ensure…
University-wide policies describe what activities constitute responsible use as well as violations. Following is more detail about some violations that IT@Cornell frequently gets questions about.
Instructor-led workshops and classes are offered on a variety of topics, including Office365 (Access, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word), and Adobe Creative Cloud (Captivate, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop). IT professional technical courses on networking,…
Who Can Join?
Any member of the Cornell community -- whether faculty, staff, alumnus, or student -- may establish an e-list, as long as it supports instruction, research, outreach, administration, or other recognized university activities. There is no charge for creating a CIT-hosted e-list or using the CIT list…
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.
Please use this link to get connected to the eduroam Wi-Fi network
User Experience
When I try to connect to eduroam, my password is not accepted and the connection fails. I know I'm typing my password correctly.
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…
Forgotten Password?
NetID
If you know your NetID but cannot remember your password, follow the steps for requesting a replacement password in the information about NetIDs web page.
GuestID
To change your GuestID password, or to recover your password should you lose it, go to the following…
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…
If you're looking for more information on the new Microsoft sign-in experience launching in fall 2022, visit Azure Authentication.
(For information about what phishing is, see How to Guard Against Internet Fraud.)