E-mail Accounts and NYU-Home Access

Information for new faculty on getting accounts for email and NYU-Home access can be found at: http://www.nyu.edu/its/email/

You can get your NetID at http://start.nyu.edu. Click on the "Start!" button near the top of the page and enter the requested information. If for some reason you cannot get your NetID from start.nyu.edu, tenure-track faculty, adjunct faculty, instructors, and visiting faculty should contact Diana Barnes (diana.barnes@nyu.edu, or look for her in room 214).

Accounts for the Politics Datalab and Politics Server

Having an account on the Politics Server allows you to log in to the computers in the data labs (rooms 335 and 435), use the department printers, and remotely access files which are stored on the server. To get an account, please see Carlos Rios in room 202 after getting your NetID.

Personal Homepage

Personal web pages are available through NYU-Home. Anyone with an NYU NetID can publish a personal home page on the Internet, using the "Files" section of NYUHome. To see information provided by ITS about these personal pages, click here.

Note that personal pages are different from the standardized Faculty webpages on the Department's website.

Access to the Politics Department Website

To get an account so that you can access your homepage on the Politics Department web site, print out the form at: http://www.nyu.edu/its/accounts/forms/request_individual.pdf

Fill out items 1 and 5. (Faculty members don't need to have a sponsor.) Ignore items 2, 6 and 7. For item 3, check "i4 (web provider)". For item 4, write: "Require access to http://nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics"

(If you want to create a regular web page for a class, then you would also write that request under item 4. See below.)

Finally, fax the form to 212-995-4929.

Blackboard Class Website Accounts

A sophisticated class web page system called Blackboard is installed and supported at NYU Information Technology Services. When a faculty member requests a Blackboard account for her class and activates the course, students are able to access their course website through a "channel" on their personalized NYU Home portal page. The professor can put up content meant to be viewed only by individual students, such as grades.

The web address for Blackboard is classes.nyu.edu. If you want to know more about blackboard, go to the Blackboard Overview, which includes links to a demo course site and the Blackboard Getting Started Assistant.

To request that a course be added to Blackboard, please follow the instructions on this page or use the Blackboard Getting Started Assistant.

Regular Class Website Accounts

If you do not already have an ITS web account and you want to create a regular class web page (separate from the Blackboard system) print out the form at: http://www.nyu.edu/its/accounts/forms/request_individual.pdf

Fill out items 1 and 5. (Faculty members don't need to have a sponsor.) Ignore items 2, 6 and 7. For item 3, check "i4 (web provider)". For item 4, include a "complete project description" of the class web page you want to create under www.nyu.edu/classes/

You can specify to them that you want www.nyu.edu/classes/professorlastname/ or that you want www.nyu.edu/classes/coursetitle/; they tend to be flexible on this. For more information, see the ITS Faculty Account page.

If you have not previously completed this form and you want to be able to access your home page on the Politics Department web site as well, then you should also write that request under item 4. (See above.) Finally, fax the form to 212-995-4929.

If you do already have an ITS account to access your home page, you can email its.accounts@nyu.edu and tell them you already have access to the department of politics web-site (http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/), but you want to set up a course website under: www.nyu.edu/classes/. They'll give you access (not instantly), and you can proceed.

Creating Class Mailing Lists

To create an email list for a class, go to the NYU Forums page and follow the instructions.