Account
Access Post-Graduation
First,
congratulations from the Help Desk on graduating! We all wish you well in your
future endeavors, whether you're returning for another degree or lending
yourself to a new community.
While you are
an active student with the Seminary, you have access to a wide variety of
services and programs, such as Office 365, Zoom, and Brightspace. Here is what
happens with graduation.
Upon
graduating, your primary role is changed from 'Student' to 'Recent Graduate.'
You will remain a Recent Graduate throughout the summer, and during this time,
you will want to ensure you back up any data you want to save from OneDrive,
OneNote, and Brightspace.
At the end of
August, your account loses all permissions and access to the above-mentioned
services, including but not limited to Office 365 apps (Microsoft Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, OneDrive, and OneNote), Zoom, Brightspace, and print services
through PaperCut.
Sometime in
August, the Alumni Office will email all recent graduates and share a link to
complete what is called Alumni Conversion, which will reenable your Seminary
email access, create the email alias that includes @alum.ptsem.edu, and provide
access to the Alumni databases through the library. Those are the only services
that are provided to Alumni.
You can
purchase a personal license for Office 365 and register it with a non-Seminary
email, however, you will no longer have access to any files or data stored
within your Seminary account.
This article talks about downloading
content from OneDrive.
This article talks about backing up
OneNote.
You would
also want to save any data stored on Brightspace, and you can reach out to help.desk@ptsem.edu for
any questions related to that.
We recommend
ensuring that you have a valid secondary email listed in your account recovery,
as your password will still expire every 180 days, and that email can be used
to request a password reset link if needed.
You can also
enable mail forwarding within Outlook if you use a different email more often,
so as to not miss password reminders sent to your Seminary email.
If you have
other access-related questions, please feel free to email us at Help.Desk@ptsem.edu, and
we will try our best to further assist.
This link takes you to the list of library
databases you will have access to.