Student Organization Accounts
- Purpose of student organization accounts
- Obtaining/renewing student organization accounts
- Resources available to student organizations
- ACMS policies for student organization accounts
Purpose of Student Organization Accounts
Any group officially registered with the Center for Student Involvement (previously SOLO) at UCSD may open an ACMS computer account. These accounts are available to promote email communication between members of the organization and to help publicize the organization's events. Please read the policies and exclusions below.
Obtaining/Renewing an Account
After your Student Organization has been approved, log into http://studentorg.ucsd.edu and complete the "Request or renew organization website and email" form.
Student organization accounts must be renewed annually, within the first few weeks of Fall quarter. Account renewal eligibility is dependent on renewal of the organization's registration with the Center for Student Involvement.
New accounts and renewals are proccessed in 3-5 business days.
Available Resources
There are several tools available to facilitate communication between the officers and members of your organization.
Web Hosting
Hosting is provided by the Instructional Web Development Center (IWDC) free of charge and includes a virtual host name, e.g. myorgname.ucsd.edu. All requests must come from a principal member using their @ucsd.edu email address. Due to constrained resources and an increasingly complex security environment, our free student org websites can support only static content.
Encrypted authentication is required to connect to the web server. This method is not supported by all FTP clients.
We recommend using FileZilla on Windows and Mac. Below are the settings:
FileZilla (3.2)
- Use the Site Manager (do not use Quickconnect)
- Host: myorgname.ucsd.edu
- Port: 22
- Server Type: SFTP - SSH File Transfer Protocol
- Logintype: Normal
- User: username
- Password: password
- Account: < leave blank >
See the FileZilla Documentation website for more information.
Mailing Lists
Your organization may wish to set up your own mailing list. Options include:
- only the principal members can subscribe new members and/or send mail to the whole group
- anyone on the list can post messages
- anyone can subscribe themselves to the list
- only a limited set of people may add or delete email addresses
Center for Student Involvement Mailing list
There is a mailing list for student organizations run by Center for Student Involvement . Its purpose is to inform students of student organization-related events and activities, important deadlines, vendor fair dates, Center for Student Involvement Leadership Seminar Series and the Chancellor's Leadership Transcript.
To subscribe, send email from your subscribing account to:
listserv@ucsd.edu
Leave subject line blank, write the following in the message body:
add studentorg
Send any questions or comments to:
help-studentorg@ucsd.edu
Policies
Student organization accounts are authorized only for electronic communication (email or a website) and only by the advisor and principal members. Individual members must use their student accounts for personal email.
This account is NOT to be used for any of the following:
- as a part of any for-credit class or research
- personal computing or communication
- personal financial gain
The only people who should have access to the account are those whose names are listed on the most current account form for the student organization. Those listed on the form will be held responsible for any policy violations.
ACMS requires that new student organizations re-register every Fall through the Center for Student Involvement office. This allows you to update your principal members and will let us know that your organization is still using the account.
ACMS Web policy
Student organizational accounts and their authorized users are responsible for abiding by the ACMS Acceptable Use Policies.
The web services provided are intended for websites hosted on our servers. We do not provide redirection services. If we discover that your site is being used only to redirect to an outside domain (off campus), your ACMS student org website will be deactivated.