Guests

Guests of all departments at Abersytwyth University can make use of our Visitors

Temporary logins for external users taking part in events/courses at AU

If you are a member of Aberystwyth University staff and you are organising a short course, workshop or seminar which requires either a guest lecturer or your attendees to login to a computer as part of the course you can request temporary logins to facilitate this.

Temporary logins must only be used:

  • in a supervised environment, with a member of University staff taking responsibility for all use made of them
  • by persons over the age of 18
  • for courses, workshops or seminars of less than a days duration

Temporary logins have:

  • the ability to login in the computer rooms 
  • 2 GB of filestore
  • the ability to publish webpages on http://users.aber.ac.uk

To apply for a temporary login you must complete the Temporary Course Account Request Form at least three working days before the account/s are required.

For courses of a longer duration or where users will not be supervised at all times you should consider adding your students to AStRA.

Guest Accounts

  • If you regularly have guest lecturers/speakers who need to be logged in to specific Aberystwyth University computer to give their lecture, for example in a meeting room or training suite, you can apply for a guest account.
  • Guest accounts allow you to manage logins for your visitors yourself
  • Guest accounts are tied to a specific computer or group of computers and allow users to login and access the network only.
  • As guest accounts contain no personal information they can be reused for subsequent guest lecturers/speakers.
  • You can either login to the computer for your guest or give them the username and password. If you do give them the username and password you must change the password after they have left.
  • Guest accounts must not be used by anyone under the age of 18
  • You should keep a record of who is using the account and when as you will responsible for all use made of it.
  • To apply for a Guest Account please complete the following form : http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/access/forms/guest-account-form/