At IU, how do I request accounts for conference participants?

Visitors to Indiana University who are otherwise unaffiliated with IU may on occasion be granted temporary accounts that permit them to access the IU network. Two kinds of accounts are available:

• The Network Access account, for use by visitors to IU Bloomington, IUPUI, or IU East who need nothing more than Internet access through the IU wireless network. This account is available at no charge. See Network Access accounts (guest wireless access) at IUB, IUPUI, and IUE.
  
  
• Conference accounts, for use by participants of IU-sponsored conferences, workshops, or special programs who need access to secure IU-owned computing resources, such as the wired IU network, the Student Technology Centers (STCs), or network printing services.

  Note: At IUB and at IUPUI, a conference technology fee may be assessed for these accounts; see About conference use of the STCs. The conference technology fee may be waived if no UITS-owned resources will be used by the conference making the request.

Conference accounts must be sponsored by a faculty or staff member, and must be approved by UITS Accounts Administration. To sponsor conference accounts:

1. Go to the Account Management Service at: https://itaccounts.iu.edu/
2. Click Manage my IU computing accounts.
   
   
3. You might see a page asking you to log into the Central Authentication Service; if so, enter your Network ID username and passphrase. If not, go on to the next step.
   
   
4. Click set up conference accounts.
   
   
5. Enter the requested information about the conference and the resources your conference guests will need. Click Continue.

Once the University Information Policy Office has approved your request, you will receive notification of the account usernames and passphrases available to your conference attendees. If you experience any problems requesting accounts, contact  valid@indiana.edu .

Note: Sponsors must keep records of all conference account users. In the case of a security or policy violation, the sponsor must be able to supply identity and contact information for the user of the offending account at the time of the incident, and must assist in problem resolution.

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