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.

Some functions are only available during certain periods. The Registrar’s Office will control what time periods certain functions are allowed.

Once logged into myUSI, you will access Student Services from the Self Service button from within myUSI or from the myUSI Start page.

From the Self Service button, click on Student & Financial Aid. This should take you to the main menu of Student Services.

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.

As of January 2, 2003, direct deposit statements for employees will no longer be printed and distributed through campus mail. You will still have access to your pay information through myUSI and Web for Employees.

Log onto Web for Employees by following these steps:

• Click on the myUSI icon at the lower right corner of the USI home page (www.usi.edu).
• Click the Sign In link at the top of the page.
• Log on to myUSI using the User Name and Password that you received in a letter from the Human Resources Office.
• Click on the Self Service button,
• Then click on Employee Services.

View your direct deposit information by following these steps:

• Click on Payroll Services.
• Click on Pay Stub.
• Select the appropriate year and click the Select button.
• Select the appropriate pay date and click the Select button.
• You can scroll down to see the same information you are accustomed to seeing on your paper direct deposit statement.

Web for Employees also provides tools that enable you to change your address and emergency contact information on-line. It also provides you the means to view other information regarding your employment at USI. If you have forgotten your password and have not been on Web for Employees, you may contact Ingrid Lindy at extension 7062. If you have changed your password and have forgotten it, you may contact Deb Butler at the myUSI Support Desk at (812)465-1070.

If you have questions or need additional information, please feel free to contact Human Resources at (812)464-1840.

MyUSI provides informational content through a mechanism called channels. In general, channels provide at-a-glance information with click-throughs to expanded content or Web resources. Channels are similar to the content modules that are aviable on sites such as Netscape.com and Yahoo.com.

Some typical channels that you may see include information like:

• How many appointments are on your calendar
• A preview of the first few messages in your email inbox
• A place to keep bookmarks that is accessible from any computer
• Links USI information
• Access to course schedules or administrative services

myUSI requires popups in order to work.

If you computer is using software to block pop-ups, you will not be able to access myUSI until you configure it to allow pop-ups for the myUSI website.

If you have any pop-up software enabled on your computer, you will get a page starting with Browser Problem: Popup windows have been suppressed when you try to go the the myUSI site (http://my.usi.edu). If you get this error, follow the steps outlined below to fix the problem.

What are popups?
Popups, or pop-ups, are small windows that open up automatically when you visit a web site or when you click on a link. Often they are used to display extra information or add functionality to a site.

Popups have received a bad name because they are often abused by websites seeking to push more advertising in front of your web browsing session. Also, many people have computers infected with worms and viruses that pop up advertising. If your computer constantly pops open windows even when you aren’t actively browsing the web, you probably need to scan your computer for viruses. A good free virus scanner that will work through the web can be found at http://housecall.trendmicro.com.

To address these problems many web browsers now include pop-up blockers to try and stem some of the annoying behavior. Also, there is a whole industry of software developers that create add-on software to aid computer users in blocking popups.

There’s only one problem.

Not all popups are bad.

As web applications move more and more towards mimicking software that exists on your computer desktop, they will increasingly mimic traits of those applications like popping up messages or opening items in a separate window. If your popup software blocks this behavior, those web applications won’t work for you. myUSI is an example of this and needs popups to be enabled for it to fully function.

How do I disable pop-ups?
Unfortunately, there are literally hundreds of popup blockers out there. Below, you will find a short list of instructions for configuring some of the most popular popup blocking tools and web browsers with popup blocking capabilities to work with myUSI:

You may have more than one of these installed and active on your computer. Please disable pop-up blocking in ALL of them before proceeding.

If you still get the Browser Problem: Popup windows have been suppressed error message after completing one or two of these sections, it probably means that you still have more pop-up blockers installed.

We have had users with up to 5 popup blockers installed and each had to be disabled before they could login successfully to myUSI.

Microsoft Internet Explorer
After Windows XP service pack 2 is installed, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer gains its own popup blocker. When it is installed it is turned on by default and set to the Medium security setting which will block most popups. Enable popups for myUSI by doing the following:

1. Launch Internet Explorer
2. Go to the Tools drop down menu
3. Select the Pop-Up Blocker
4. Then select Pop-Up Blocker Settings
5. In the new window that opens, type my.usi.edu the Address of Web site to allow field.
6. Then click the Add button
7. You Should now see my.usi.edu in the Allowed Sites section
8. Now click the Close button and shut down and restart Internet Explorer
9. Now open Internet Explorer and try logging into myUSI again.

Google Toolbar
Many people have the Google toolbar added to their Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browser. This toolbar includes its own popup blocker. Unfortunately, there is no way to add an Allowed Site to this tool, so you will have to remember to disable popup blocking when you visit myUSI and re-enable popup blocking when you leave myUSI. Or you could just uninstall the questionably useful Google Toolbar.

The Google Toolbar looks something like this:

To disable Google toolbar’s pop-up tools when logging into myUSI:

1. Open Internet Explorer with the Google Toolbar installed
2. Go to myUSI by typing my.usi.edu in the Address field
3. The myUSI “Disable pop-up blocker” warning should appear and the Google toolbar will state “some number” blocked next an icon of application windows.
4. Click on the … blocked icon
5. The pop-up blocker icon will now change to say Site Pop-ups Allowed or Pop-ups Allowed or Pop-ups OK
6. Reload the page by clicking the refresh button in Internet Explorer
7. You should now be able to access myUSI

Yahoo Toolbar
Many people have the Yahoo toolbar added to their Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browser. The Yahoo Toolbar is often installed without users really knowing it because it is bundled with lots of free software available on the Internet, including Yahoo Instant Messenger, and the Shockwave plugin for most web browsers.

Like most Internet Explorer toolbars, the Yahoo Toolbar includes its own popup blocker. Fortunately, there is a way to add an Allowed Site to this tool, so you can configure it to disable popup blocking when you visit myUSI from now on.

Or you could just uninstall the questionably useful Yahoo Toolbar.

The Yahoo Toolbar looks something like this (the Pop-Up blocker icon has an orange box around it):

To disable pop-up blocking for myUSI in the Yahoo Toolbar, do the following:

1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Go to myUSI by typing my.usi.edu in the Address field
3. Click on Yahoo Toolbar’s PopUp Blocker tool (featured in orange box in the linked image above)
4. Select Always Allow Pop-Ups From…
5. Then select myUSI or my.usi.edu from the Sources of Recently Blocked Pop-Ups list and click Allow.
6. Reload the page by clicking the refresh button in Internet Explorer
7. You should now be able to access myUSI

AOL Toolbar
AOL’s client program includes a popup blocker as well.

To force AOL’s software to allow popups from myUSI do the following:

1. Startup and Login to your AOL client program.
2. Click Settings on the AOL toolbar.
3. Click Pop-Ups in the Essentials tab.
4. When the Pop-Up Control Settings window opens up, click on the Web Pop-Ups tab
5. Then, select Allow Web pop-ups from these sites from the available options.
6. Type my.usi.edu and click Add
7. Then Click Save.
8. Now, logout of AOL and then log back in.
9. Now try logging into myUSI again, by going to my.usi.edu
10. You should now be able to access myUSI

Firefox
Firefox is superior web browser that is available for free under an Open Source license. It has received numerous awards including PC World Magazine’s 100 Best Software Products of 2006 and comes in regularly updated versions on almost every desktop operating system including Microsoft Windows, Apple’s Mac OS X, and Linux. You can pick up a copy of the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox browser for you operating system by going to http://www.getfirefox.com

To enable popups for my.usi.edu in Firefox, do the following:

1. Launch the Firefox browser.
2. Click on the Tools drop down menu.
3. Select Options… from the Tools menu. Mac users should go to the Firefox toolbar menu and select the Preferences… option.
4. Select the Content tab.
5. Click the Allow Sites button across from the Block Pop Up Windows button.
6. Type my.usi.edu in the Address of website text box.
7. Click the Allow button.
8. Then click the Close button to exit the Options or Preferences window.
9. Now close the browser and restart it.
10. Then try logging into myUSI again, by going to my.usi.edu
11. You should now be able to access myUSI

Norton Internet Security
Norton Internet Security (NIS) is a suite of programs that works to protect your computer from a whole host of nastiness. Unfortunately, its privacy guard, popup blocker, and firewall have a tendency to be draconian in its enforcement and often catches perfectly safe applications, websites, and practices in its net all in the name of security.

MyUSI has particular problems with Norton Internet Security. In order to access myUSI with Norton Internet Security installed, you will need to make Norton Internet Security PERMIT actions from myUSI (my.usi.edu and myUSI’s mail server(mail.usi.edu):

1. Open the Norton Internet Security (NIS) control panel. You can access it by right-clicking on the NIS icon in the system tray of your computer (down on the right by your computer’s clock) and then clicking Norton Internet Security, or by double-clicking the Norton Internet Security icon on the computer’s desktop or by finding the Norton folder in your Windows Program’s menu (Start Button - All Programs - Norton ).
2. Next, click on Privacy and then click Configure
3. You want to add the following addresses to the list of sites and you will need to set all the options to Permit
   1. Add my.usi.edu, then set all options to Permit
   2. Add mail.usi.edu, then set all options to Permit
4. Click OK, then close the Norton Internet Security (NIS) control panel
5. Close all the web browsers and then try accessing myUSI

You may also have to try these options if the instructions above don’t match your version.

6. Open the Norton Internet Security (NIS) control panel. You can access it by right-clicking on the NIS icon in the system tray of your computer (down on the right by your computer’s clock) and then clicking Norton Internet Security, or by double-clicking the Norton Internet Security icon on the computer’s desktop or by finding the Norton folder in your Windows Program’s menu (Start Button - All Programs - Norton ).
7. Select Norton Antispam.
8. Select Status and Settings.
9. Select Popup Blocking.
10. Click on Configure.
11. To prevent all pop-up windows, make sure there are ticks in Turn on Ad Blocking, and Turn on Popup Window blocking.
12. Click on Advanced - to set Ad Blocking for individual sites.
13. Click on Add Site - under the left hand window.
    1. Type in my.usi.edu and click OK
       (this may be sorted, and appear under the heading usi.edu)
14. Click on Add - under the right hand window.
15. In the new window that opens
    1. Type in my.usi.edu
    2. Click on Permit - this will permit pop-up windows for this site only
16. Click on OK to save these settings.
17. Click OK, then close the Norton Internet Security (NIS) control panel
18. Close all the web browsers and then try accessing myUSI

Many companies and organizations run these sorts of deals and create the rules that require a .edu address under the mistaken assumption that all schools use .edu addresses for all of their email systems.We don’t use .edu for our student email domain. However, usieagles.org is registered to the University of Southern Indiana and has the same technical and administrative contacts as as the domain registration for usi.edu.

It is really those organizations and companies that aren’t honoring that relationship due to poor planning and bad assumptions on their part. Anyone can verify that usieagles.org is a valid University of Southern Indiana owned domain using publicly available and widely understood tools.

USI is not the only institution of higher education to use multiple (non edu) domains. There are many schools that use .org addresses for their student email. We had the same problem with Facebook when it was only open to universities. After Facebook realized that a number of institutions of higher educuation use .org addressing for their student email, they changed their policies to allow registrations from these valid domains.

The best step to take when encountering this problem is to contact the organization running the promotion. If you can’t find any contact information, it probably isn’t a place you want to deal with anyway. If it is a company with multiple divisions, like Microsoft, or Dell, Gateway, or Apple, try to find their education division. Most offer some sort of toll free 800 number for sales inquiries.

Tell them to do a whois lookup on usieagles.org and on usi.edu. The results of those searches will clearly show that both domains are owned by this university. That should prove the relationship and hopefully they will work with you to get your discount.

Other companies will accept other forms of proof of your enrollment with a university. See if the company offering the promotion will accept something besides an email address to prove your eligibility. It should be noted that email isn’t very concrete proof of enrollment as many institutions give .edu addresses to alumni that wouldn’t be eligible for educational discounts. Some forms of proof that many companies accept include faxed photocopies of your student ID, and proof of enrollment letters from the Registrar’s Office.

See Also:

• Podcast Episode 2: Why is the address of myUSI www.usieagles.org?
• Why is the address for myUSI www.usieagles.org?

In order to log in to and use the myUSI web portal, you must supply a valid username and password. You must also be using a recent version of a standard web browser such as Mozilla’s Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE). If you are having trouble logging in to myUSI, check our up-to-date list of supported web browsers.

If you are not using one of our supported browsers, you may experience difficulties with some or all services available through myUSI.