Forwarding the mail that is delivered to an @mail.usi.edu address is relatively simple. Just follow these steps:

1. Login to myUSI or sign in through the myUSI Start page
2. Open the myUSI Mail application by clicking on the myUSI Mail icon.
3. Click on the Options button.
4. Expand the Mail option by clicking the triangle to the right.
5. Under Mail, expand the Local account option by clicking the triangle to the right.
6. Under Local Account, click the Forwarding option.
7. Clear the address in the Forward To: field
8. Check Enable automatic forwarding.
9. Type the email address that you would like to forward your mail to in the Foward to: field.
10. Click the Save Preferences button
11. Wait about 15 minutes and then send a message to your @mail.usi.edu address and see if it shows up at the address where your mail is forwarded.

NOTE:

Be sure to TEST your forwarded email account.

We have had many users forward their mail to non-existent or broken accounts.

If you don’t test your configuration, there is a good chance that you will lose communications from the university as we send only to your @mail.usi.edu account.

To test your configuration, send a test message to your @mail.usi.edu address and see if it shows up at the address that you set up for Forwarding.

If it doesn’t show up, there is a problem with the address that you entered in the  Forward to: and it needs to be corrected before you will receive any mail originally sent to your original @mail.usi.edu address.

Your forwarded address could be mistyped or the email account settings on the forwarded address (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc) need to be changed in order to accept email from your forwarding address.

If you choose to change the default configuration, it is your responsibility to make sure that it works and won’t potentially lose communications.

If you aren’t sure how to make this work, you probably don’t want to change the default and, instead, check your myUSI email account on a regular basis through the interfaces provided by the university.

Mail left in the INBOX, Sent folder, and Trash folder is automatically expired and deleted from the mail.usi.edu server on a set schedule.

mail.usi.edu server email expiration schedule:

• All email messages that are left in a @mail.usi.edu INBOX for longer than 180 days are automatically removed from the myUSI mail server.
• All email messages that are left in a @mail.usi.edu Sent folder for longer than 14 days are automatically removed from the myUSI mail server.
• All email messages that are left in a @mail.usi.edu Trash folder for longer than 3 days are automatically removed from the myUSI mail server.

Mail that is NOT in the INBOX, Sent folder, or Trash folder is not automatically removed.

If you would like to keep email messages longer than than the time periods listed above, you MUST create folders and place the email messages that you would like to save into folders other than the INBOX, Sent folder, or Trash folder.

Mail that is not moved to another folder WILL BE DELETED and purged from the myUSI mail server.

For More Information on Creating Mail Folders and Moving Messages See:

For the myUSI Mail client:
How to make new folders using the myUSI Mail email client.

How to move messages to a folder using the myUSI Mail client.

For the Lite Mail client:
How to make new folders using the Lite Mail email client.

How to move messages to a folder using the Lite Mail client.

If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them to myusi@usi.edu.

The myUSI Support Team

The new portal requires using an up to date web browser.  See our browser support page for a complete list of supported browser versions.

If you have to use Internet Explorer 6, or some other web browser that is not listed on the browser support page, you might try one of these 3 options:

• Upgrade to either Internet Explorer 7 or 8
  • Download Internet Explorer 7
  • Download Internet Explorer 8
• Install FireFox 3.0 web browser (http://getfirefox.com)
• Log into each service separately using your myUSI username and password (bypassing the myUSI portal) by using the myUSI Start page available at http://www.usi.edu/start

If none of these resolve your situation, call the myUSI Helpdesk at 812.465.1080 at once.

If you are having problems logging into the myUSI portal, http://my.usi.edu, you can try logging into the services that you want to access, myUSI Mail (for your email), Blackboard (for online course materials), and Self Service (for registration, checking or updating grades, financial aid, etc.) by going to the myUSI Start page:

 myUSI Start page:  http://www.usi.edu/start

Just log in to whichever service you need and it will open in a separate window or web browser tab.

After you have saved your Address Book from the old myUSI, you can import it into the new myUSI by following these steps:

1. Login to myUSI (my.usi.edu)

2. Click the myUSI Mail Icon

3. In myUSI Mail, click the Address Book button (lower left)

4. Click the Import/Export button across the Address Book toolbar

5. Choose Import

6. In the Import Contacts to Address Book window that pops up, click the browse button
and browse to the address book you previously exported from the old myUSI (CPAddressBook.csv) and click Open

7. In the Import Contacts to Address Book window, click the File Format drop down box and
choose Microsoft Outlook CSV

8. Click Import Contacts.

9. Depending on how many contacts that need to be imported, there may be a few minute wait

10. The Import Contacts to Address Book window will change to tell how many contacts were
imported, click the OK button

11. Now all your contacts were imported

Your new email address will use the same username as you had on the old myUSI website followed by @mail.usi.edu.

So, Archibald Eagle’s username on the old myUSI was aeagle, so his new email address is:

aeagle @mail.usi.edu

Here is a site map for the Faculty Services:

• Select term
  • Faculty Services
    • Select a course (from your own courses)
      • Faculty Schedule (all your courses)
      • Class List (info by student- major, etc)
      • Registration (future enhancement)
      • Midterm Grading (coming soon)
      • Grade Courses (coming soon)
• Advisor Services
  • Select a student
    • Student Schedule
    • Credit Override (maximum credit hours allowed per student)
    • Institutional Transcript (coming 1st quarter of 2002)
    • Transfer Evaluation (credits from other schools)
    • Degree Audit (courses taken \& degree requirements)
    • Student Addresses

MyUSI is USI’s portal which allows access to multiple products with one easy login.

Blackboard is classified as course management software or courseware.

Both share a few similar features such as chat, announcements, calendar.

The course resources found under myUSI are basic tools delivered with the product, but myUSI is not courseware. If you have already created a Blackboard site for your course, you may choose to add a link for this site under the Course Homepage in myUSI.

If you have not already designed anything for your course under Blackboard and need only basic chat, message board, e-mail, and a way to add links for your course, you may choose to use the Course Resources under myUSI.

If you look closely, the section numbers should be different. In other words, the course title might be the same as well as the course number, but the course section will be different. You are teaching more than one occurrence of this course.

Once logged into myUSI or from the myUSI Start page, you will access Web for Faculty (Faculty Services) through the Self Service button. You can then click on Faculty Services. This should take you to the main menu of Web for Faculty.