If you graduate, you will get the Alumni role added to your profile and then you will have access to your account as long as you use it.

Unused alumni accounts will be purged after 1 year without a login.

If you leave without graduating, your account will remain accessible until the following year’s tax season is over (allowing you time to access the previous year’s 1099-T info).

Inactive alumni accounts are no longer kept in the system as of April 15th, 2007.

Normal mail expiration policies are still in place! Plan accordingly.  See Also:  How long does mail stay in my @mail.usi.edu (myUSI) mail account?

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 812.465.1070 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

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.

One way to find your class times is to try the calendar function.

Select the drop down for your class. The class schedule and time is loaded for you.

You might also try clicking on the Self Service tab, the on the Student & Financial Aid link and select Student Schedule (under Registration).

Also, generic class Schedules are available online here: http://www.usi.edu/schedules.asp

For most classes, grades for Summer sessions will be posted in the same time frame that Fall and Spring semester grades are posted. The grades are officially posted at 10:30am the Friday following Finals Week. See this article for more information.

The Registrar’s Office has informed us that there can be some variation to this schedule depending on whether or not a Summer Session class had a non-standard schedule or start and end date.

Generally, if your class met in a time that doesn’t match up nicely with a specific summer session, your grades may not be available until the end of the grading period of the following Summer session. If you have any questions, please call the Registrar’s Office at 812-464-1762.