Scenario: I'm a New Rice Employee

Welcome to Rice! For employees and students alike, the Office of the Vice Provost for Information Technology (IT) is your resource for computing questions and services. The Reference Card (.pdf format) contains a general overview of the services offered by Information Technology.

Getting Started

• Personal Accounts and your NetID - In order to check your email and use other campus computing resources, you will first need to access your NetID (electronic ID for Rice) and set your password.  
• Protect your password and your computer - no one at Rice will ask for your password.  Delete every message that requests your password or other personal information. This type of email is called as phishing.
• Email - check your email through the Internet.
• Voicemail - check your voicemail messages from off-campus
• Unified Messaging - send voicemail messages to your Rice email
• Calendar - manage your appointments with an electronic calendar
• Storage - save your data and files to a personal storage account or your department's shared  
• Keep Rice data secure - protect Rice resources and data; do not save or send sensitive data to non-network locations.