Student Organization Accounts

Purpose of Student Organization Accounts

Any group officially registered with the Center for Student Involvement (previously SOLO) at UCSD may open an ACS computer account. These accounts are available to promote email communication between members of the organization and to help publicize the organization's events.

Obtaining/Renewing an Account

After your Student Organization has been approved, log into http://studentorg.ucsd.edu and complete the "Request or renew organization website and email" form.

Student organization accounts must be renewed annually, within the first few weeks of Fall quarter. Account renewal eligibility is dependent on renewal of the organization's registration with the Center for Student Involvement.

Available Resources

There are several tools available to facilitate communication between the officers and members of your organization.

Web Hosting

Hosting is provided by the Instructional Web Development Center (IWDC) free of charge and includes a virtual host name, e.g. myorgname.ucsd.edu. ASP.Net, PHP, and MySQL or Access databases are available by request.

Authentication over SSL/TLS is required to connect to web server. This method not supported by all FTP clients.

Two free and compatible FTP clients are FileZilla (Windows) and CyberDuck (Mac). Below are the settings for each:

FileZilla (3.0)

  • Use the Site Manager (do not use Quickconnect)
  • Host: myorgname.ucsd.edu
  • Port: 21
  • Server Type: FTPES - FTP over explicit TLS/SSL
  • Logintype: Account
  • User: username
  • Password: password
  • Account: username
CyberDuck (2.8)
  • Protocol: FTP-SSL (FTP over TLS/SSL)
  • Server: myorgname.ucsd.edu
  • Port: 21
  • Username: username
  • Password: password
Mailing Lists

Your organization may wish to set up your own mailing list. Options include:

  • only the principal members can subscribe new members and/or send mail to the whole group
  • anyone on the list can post messages
  • anyone can subscribe themselves to the list
  • only a limited set of people may add or delete email addresses
Center for Student Involvement Mailing list

There is a mailing list for student organizations run by Center for Student Involvement . Its purpose is to inform students of student organization-related events and activities, important deadlines, vendor fair dates, Center for Student Involvement Leadership Seminar Series and the Chancellor's Leadership Transcript.

To subscribe, send email from your subscribing account to:

listserv@ucsd.edu

Leave subject line blank, write the following in the message body:

add studentorg

Send any questions or comments to:

help-studentorg@ucsd.edu

Policies

Student organization accounts are authorized only for electronic communication (email or a website) and only by the advisor and principal members.  Individual members must use their student accounts for personal email.

This account is NOT to be used for any of the following:

  • as a part of any for-credit class or research
  • personal computing or communication
  • personal financial gain

The only people who should have access to the account are those whose names are listed on the most current account form for the student organization. Those listed on the form will be held responsible for any policy violations.

ACS requires that new student organizations re-register every Fall through the Center for Student Involvement office. This allows you to update your principal members and will let us know that your organization is still using the account.

ACS Web policy

Student organizational accounts and their authorized users are responsible for abiding by the ACS Acceptable Use Policies.