Account Access Post-Graduation

First, congratulations from the Help Desk on graduating! We all wish you well in your future endeavors, whether you're returning for another degree or lending yourself to a new community.

While you are an active student with the Seminary, you have access to a wide variety of services and programs, such as Office 365, Zoom, and Brightspace. Here is what happens with graduation.

Upon graduating, your primary role is changed from 'Student' to 'Recent Graduate.' You will remain a Recent Graduate throughout the summer, and during this time, you will want to ensure you back up any data you want to save from OneDrive, OneNote, and Brightspace.

At the end of August, your account loses all permissions and access to the above-mentioned services, including but not limited to Office 365 apps (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, and OneNote), Zoom, Brightspace, and print services through PaperCut.

Sometime in August, the Alumni Office will email all recent graduates and share a link to complete what is called Alumni Conversion, which will reenable your Seminary email access, create the email alias that includes @alum.ptsem.edu, and provide access to the Alumni databases through the library. Those are the only services that are provided to Alumni.

You can purchase a personal license for Office 365 and register it with a non-Seminary email, however, you will no longer have access to any files or data stored within your Seminary account.

This article talks about downloading content from OneDrive.

This article talks about backing up OneNote.

You would also want to save any data stored on Brightspace, and you can reach out to help.desk@ptsem.edu for any questions related to that.

We recommend ensuring that you have a valid secondary email listed in your account recovery, as your password will still expire every 180 days, and that email can be used to request a password reset link if needed.

You can also enable mail forwarding within Outlook if you use a different email more often, so as to not miss password reminders sent to your Seminary email.

If you have other access-related questions, please feel free to email us at Help.Desk@ptsem.edu, and we will try our best to further assist.

This link takes you to the list of library databases you will have access to.