Guests, Information for short-term network access (few days)

What is a short-term guest account?

A short-term guest account allows you to have network and/or computer lab access while you are visiting campus for a short period of time, typically less than a week. The person or department sponsoring your visit can create one or more short-term guest account for you. Short-term guest accounts usually last for three days, but the account can be adjusted to match the length of your stay.

Technology Services Wi-Fi Help Portal-Visitors and Guests

Identity Management, Sponsored NetIDs

Short-term computer lab access

In addition to the services described above, if you would like to use the campus computer lab facilities, your sponsoring department can arrange for you to receive a lab guest account in several campus computer labs.

Instructional Computing Services (ICS) labs

Sponsoring departments can email info@ics.illinois.edu to request a short-term ICS Lab guest account.  Computer Lab locations and hours

Departmental computer labs

Sponsoring departments should contact the department's Active Directory administrator to request a short-term Active Directory account.

Your sponsoring department may offer departmental computer labs. Check with the staff at the lab you would like to use in order to determine the lab's guest use options. Sponsoring departments whose computer labs use Active Directory for authentication can arrange for you to have short-term Active Directory accounts that will allow you access to the department's labs.

Help

For additional assistance with short-term guest accounts, contact the Help Desk.