A Quick Guide to Technology Resources for Students
Welcome!
This Quick Guide to Information Resources and Technology provides an overview of the computing and information resources environment at Drexel University. Many services at Drexel are available primarily – or solely – electronically. For your electronic identity, you will need:
Review more information about the DragonCard at http://www.drexel.edu/dbs/dragonCard/about.
The New Student Technology Checklist is a comprehensive list of steps and services to ascertain that you have the pieces of your electronic identity in place. To access the Checklist, see
http://www.drexel.edu/irt/accounts/setup/newStudent
.
Your Drexel computer account provides access, upon login with your username and password, to the following services:
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DrexelOne portal account
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@drexel.edu email account
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Drexel Domain account (including the Software Server, Blackboard Vista, DragonFly3, etc.)
Activate accounts
online at
http://accounts.drexel.edu
. Also, you can use this site to create one personal email address (alias) per email account, or forward your incoming email to another address, including Drexel’s LinkEdu Microsoft™ Exchange and Google™ mail accounts. See the LinkEdu section on panel 4.
Your personal University I.D. number, an automatically-generated eight-digit number, is the key identifier that tracks your records through the systems at Drexel University. Find your number along with your computer account(s) at http://accounts.drexel.edu. Once you have activated your Drexel computer account(s), you can also look up your University I.D. number at
https://www.drexel.edu/irt/univid
.
For accounts assistance, email
accounts@drexel.edu
, call 215-895-2020, or visit the Korman BYOL Lab (on the west side of the Quad on the University City campus).