My UMS Account
IMPORTANT NOTE for CURRENT STUDENTS:
If you already use a maine.edu email account, FirstClass, Blackboard, or WebCT, then you have already activated your UMS Account. There is no need to go through the activation process again.
What is my UMS Account and what do I use it for?
Your UMS account will allow you:
- To get into MaineStreet UMS, the student portal into the computer system where you can update personal information (phone numbers and addresses), and enter hours worked if you are a student employee. Beginning in March and April 2008, you also registered Fall 2008 classes in MaineStreet.
- To sign in to BlackBoard and WebCT for on-line courses through the Internet.
- To access the computers in computer classrooms and clusters at the outreach centers and on several of the UMS campuses.
- To access your UMS email.
How do I start to use it?
When you were admitted to a UMS university, you were assigned your Student ID number (also sometimes called the MaineStreet ID) and an "account activation key." Armed with this seven-digit ID number and the account activation key, go to the web page:
http://mail.maine.edu/um/ActivateAccount
and follow the directions there to activate your account and set a password of your choice.
After you've set your password, you'll be told your new UMS User ID (generally takes the form of firstname.lastname) and your new UMS email address. If your User ID is john.doe, then the email address that goes with it is john.doe@maine.edu. You would use john.doe to log in, and use john.doe@maine.edu for email.
Need tips on choosing your password? Visit Picking and protecting a password.
Don't have your activation key but need to set a password? Get a new activation key from your campus Computer Services (or IT) Help Desk.
Forgotten your password? Visit Forgotten your password? for help.
Want to change your password, get into your email account, or forward your mail from that account to some other email address? Visit UMS email and account management.
Having problems? Get Help.
August 13, 2008
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