The policy for sponsored affiliate accounts on the CS systems is governed by the IU Computer Science Department Affiliate Account Policy. Affiliate accounts must be sponsored by a member of the CS faculty and the sponsoring faculty member must register the user through the IU Affiliate system. This can be done following the steps below. You will need the following information before you begin:

• Name

• Birthdate

• University ID Number (if they were previously with IU)

• Username (if they were previously with IU)

Once you have this information, you can create the affiliate account as follows:

1. Go to the IU Accounts page at itaccounts.iu.edu
2. Click the Faculty or Staff checkbox under "I am a:".
3. Click the Create more IU computing accounts, set e-mail forwarding, and manage my existing accounts and passwords checkbox under "I need to:". Note that you DO NOT want to select the option to Request an IU guest account for access to on-line services. Guest accounts are not the same as Affiliate accounts and you should not create a guest account if you want this person to have CS, Extreme, or OSL computing accounts.

4. Click Continue and then login to the system.

5. Click the option to request to add IU affiliate.

6. You will then need to fill out the information form for this account. Most of the information is self explanatory but please note the following:
   • Be sure to select the "Bloomington" campus and BL-CSCI as the department.

   • In the "Reason for affiliation with IU" box, explain the affiliation. If this person was previously at IU include the username they had when they were here.

   • The Date affiliation expires cannot be more than two years from the date of application. If you enter today's date two years from now you will get an error. You will need to enter one day earlier.

7. Click the 'Request Affiliate' button to complete the request.

Affiliate accounts should be created within 2 days. Once you receive notification that the account was approved you can send an email to accounts-admin to request the CS account.

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