{"id":364,"date":"2025-10-23T18:13:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tech.prescott.edu\/?p=364"},"modified":"2026-01-06T19:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:52:07","slug":"de-tangling-your-prescott-college-logins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.prescott.edu\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"De-tangling your Prescott College Logins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, IT has changed the way some of the logins work, and it&#8217;s not exactly clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-95764379f41a904833fd3783f19a095d\"><em>As listed below, your account name will usually be <strong>firstname.lastname<\/strong>, there are some outliers for user accounts created before 2013 or if there&#8217;s another student with the same first and last name, or if your first and last name together are more than 20 characters.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prescott.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Password-Policy-1240-03-25-24.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/prescott.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Password-Policy-1240-03-25-24.pdf\"><strong>Click here to view Prescott College Password Policy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We use Microsoft Authentication for our Canvas, but that password is the same as other applications. Here&#8217;s the list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Canvas:<\/strong><br>Username: your email address, <strong>firstname.lastname@student.prescott.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MyAcademic Services &amp; login.prescott.edu:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Username: <strong>firstname.lastname<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Microsoft Office 365:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Username: <strong>firstname.lastname@student.prescott.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Passwords for Microsoft Office 365, Canvas, MyAcademic Services and login.prescott.edu are all the same. If you need a password reset contact IT (<a href=\"mailto:helpdesk@prescott.edu\">helpdesk@prescott.edu<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gmail:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>username: <strong>firstname.lastname@student.prescott.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>password: <strong>This is unique to GMail<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have forgotten your password, contact IT (<a href=\"mailto:helpdesk@prescott.edu\">helpdesk@prescott.edu<\/a>) through your personal email address that we have on record with the Registrar, and we can reset it for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Adobe<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>username: <strong>firstname.lastname@student.prescott.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>password: <strong>This is unique to Adobe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Password change requests can be done through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\">Adobe.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, IT has changed the way some of the logins work, and it&#8217;s not exactly clear. As listed below, your account name will usually be firstname.lastname, there are some outliers for user accounts created before 2013 or if there&#8217;s another student with the same first and last name, or if your first and last name&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.prescott.edu\/?p=364\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Eric Sena","author_link":"https:\/\/tech.prescott.edu\/?author=3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.prescott.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.prescott.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.prescott.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.prescott.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.prescott.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/tech.prescott.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/tech.prescott.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.prescott.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.prescott.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.prescott.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}