Student resources outlast enrollment

The ceremonial flip of the tassel and cap toss will ensue today and Saturday as another group of IU alumni is born.

After Saturday, 8,241 student accounts will be moved to graduate status, yet remain active for a few years beyond their undergraduate education.

There are the more pressing issues most college graduates must face, such as finding a job, student loans and fulfilling post-undergraduate educational goals.

But there are some minor technological issues that might confuse recent graduates.
Some students aren’t sure whether their Indiana email accounts will remain active.

“I actually don’t know if my IU email account will still work,” senior Armand Turner said.“I only use it for school business, so it wouldn’t bother me if it was deactivated.”

But IU email accounts will not be deactivated, Momi Ford, University Information Technology Services Support Center Manager, said.

“Currently, Umail and Imail accounts, which are not IU-owned, remain active indefinitely,” Ford said.

The “username@indiana.edu” email account is merely a redirect to a Umail or Imail account.Those redirects will stay active indefinitely so long as the Umail and Imail account is active.”

The CampusAccess Card, the official IU photo identification card for the Bloomington campus remains active until the expiration date listed on the right side above the bar code approaches.

The CampusAccess card expires five years after a student receives it.
If a student leaves IU with funds in their CampusAccess account, they can request a refund, according to the CampusAccess Card Services website.

All IU students are eligible to download and use the Adobe and Microsoft programs, Mark Lynch, UITS Manager of Support Systems, Licensing and Software Distribution said.

However, former students who are no longer enrolled at IU, including graduates, are not legally permitted to continue using the Adobe software they downloaded as a student, Lynch said.

Graduates can keep using Microsoft Office after they leave IU, but not students who leave without graduating, Lynch said.

“I hope I can still get into my OneStart,” Turner said. “That’s pretty important. Our transcripts, financial aid, they can’t take that away.”

Extranet accounts have access to IU’s Central Authentication Service, Ford said.

Through CAS, former students and graduates have access to OneStart and Oncourse.
After five years, totaling six years after graduation, all accounts are deleted, Ford said.

“Most access is disabled after two consecutive semesters at IU in which a student is not currently enrolled,” Ford said.

“At that time, the account is given a status of “former student,” which will then be retained as an extranet account for five years.”