For College of Medicine and Edelstone help
Contact our help line
[email protected]
312-996-3636 (on campus 6-3636)
For general computing help
Contact the ACCC campus help line
[email protected]
312-413-0003 (on campus 3-0003)
Getting Started at the University of Illinois College of Medicine (UI COM)
If you need help setting up e-mail and other accounts, come see us in Edelstone.
Make sure to read the UIC “Acceptable Use Policy” and “ Acceptable Use Policy for Res-Net and the UIC Public Wireless Networks” as well as other campus computing policies: https://policies.uic.edu/uic-policy-library/information-technology/acceptable-use-of-computational-resources/
The College of Medicine Student Computing Guide is found at the Edelstone web page (just to the right there, see the linked pages. See also Frequently Asked Computer Questions).
Everyone who has not done so must visit the “UIC Password Management” link to set up a method to activate, set, test, and know details about your netid and password. http://password.uic.edu/
If you forget your password, and haven’t set the Password Recovery Systems up, you will have to go to the BGRC Building 2 blocks away to get a new password. Plan ahead!
Check your Mail account, and make sure any mail sent to [email protected] is going to the right place
Go to the ACCC Accounts Portal on http://accountportal.accc.uic.edu/ and click on Open an ACCC Account and follow the directions to create the new account if needed. We encourage you to use a [email protected] account for yourself to use during your time here.
Go to UIC Email Netid page and select the appropriate mail routing for your needs: http://emailforwarding.accc.uic.edu/
Mail addressed to [email protected] can go to one account. One check button under “Set new email routing:” should already be selected. Click the button and select where your e-mail should be received. Microsoft Exchange is the new direction for mail.
Incoming Chicago M1s – Subscribe to the Class of 2022 Listserv
From your UIC e-mail account send a message to [email protected] with the following in the body of your message (the subject can be blank):
SUBSCRIBE MEDCLASS2022 Firstname Lastname
Spelling counts – that’s LISTSERV with no E at the end, and SUBSCRIBE, and please put YOUR name. You can only subscribe or send to the list from your UIC account. This task won’t work through your account at gmail.com, even if you can read your UIC email that way. If you can’t subscribe, you need to create a UIC mail account, see above. You will receive a confirmation request. Confirm within 24 hours! Reply to the message by clicking the link provided. You will then be subscribed to the listserv. (hint – if you don’t get the confirmation message check your SPAM and Junk mailboxes).
Send us an e-mail – [email protected]
Let us know you’ve completed all these tasks. Send the message from your UIC mail account, please, so you know it works.
WARNING – if you don’t get an automated response very quickly, and then a personalized message back from us within a day or so, something might be set up wrong – check your spam filters, and if it’s not there, see us for help! (that’s why I ask you to send us a note…)
Check out Blackboard
Log in to UIC’s Blackboard at https://uic.blackboard.com – under My Courses you should see sites for the Med School Curriculum’s Block 0 Prematriculation material, M1 Resources, and Class of 2022 Orientation. If the Block Director hasn’t yet put the course material up it won’t be visible. They may not make their Block’s material available until right when classes for that Block start. If you think you are missing a Blackboard site you should be enrolled in, please let us know: OSA manages the M1 and Orientation sites and each Block Director manages their own course material.
If you can’t log in, you may need to create a Blackboard Account. From the ACCC accounts portal, http://accountportal.accc.uic.edu/ choose Open an ACCC Account. You will log in and be presented a list of accounts for which you are eligible.
Add the Block Calendar to your personal calendar
Optional – Use the Email tools to set up Spam filters, read about print quotas, get your laptop/ smart phone/ iPad set up for wireless, campus printing, etc.
https://it.uic.edu/services-support/student-resources/on-campus/print-services/
https://it.uic.edu/services-support/student-resources/on-campus/campus-wi-fi/
Updated 8/22/22