Onboarding
Your Sponsored Account
Every DSPG fellow and intern will have access to a UVA Sponsored Account.
A sponsored account will receive a UVA computing ID (e.g., jbs3hp).
Your UVA email address will be your UVA computing ID as the username at the virginia.edu domain (e.g., jbs3hp@virginia.edu). The name in the Global Address Listing (GAL) in Outlook will be
Surname, Given Name (Computing ID)
based on your preferred name.
Your legal name will be prepopulated but you may update your preferred name. For example, names that use non ASCII characters such as accents might prefer to update their preferred name to their ASCII map through Update Personal Information for compatibility with some of the systems.
José Bayoán Santiago Calderón => Jose Bayoan Santiago Calderon
NetBadge
NetBadge is the gatekeeper between users and websites, services, or applications at UVA that need to know and verify user identity before granting access. NetBade will require your UVA computing ID and your password as well as a two step login (Duo Mobile). Alternatively, some applications will allow the option of using a digital certificate on your device (a requisite for the UVA virtual private network).
UVA VPN
UVA offers everyone with an sponsored account access to the UVA virtual private network (VPN). The VPN will allow you to access various applications that would not be accessible otherwise such as library services.
Rivanna
Rivanna is the University of Virginia's High-Performance Computing (HPC) system. As a centralized resource it has hundreds of pre-installed software packages available for computational research across many disciplines. Currently the Rivanna supercomputer has over 8,000 cores and 8PB of various storage. All UVA faculty, staff, and postdoctoral associates are eligible to use Rivanna, or students when part of faculty research.
Microsoft
Microsoft Office 365 Tools offers a suite of tools such as:
- Teams: IM, Discussion Boards, Video Chats (similar to Slack)
- Outlook: Email / Calendar
- Productivity Suite (Word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, etc.)
Videocall
- Zoom allows UVA faculty, staff, and students to meet with colleagues across Grounds or around the world using video, voice, and screen sharing.
Schedule Zoom meetings throught Outlook with the Microsoft Outlook Add-in for being able to schedule Zoom meetings through Outlook and have the Zoom meetings sync with your calendar.
Follow ITS best practices when using Zoom such as generating one-time link for meetings instead of using your Personal Meeting ID.
Get your UVA Zoom backgrounds
- Microsoft Team / Skype for Business (through Microsoft Teams)
Storage
The Home Directory Service is a centralized file repository for all faculty, staff, and students (4 GB).
UVA Box is a free, cloud-based storage & collaboration service for eligible students, faculty, and staff to access, store, & share up to 1 TB of non-sensitive/moderately sensitive University files securely – anywhere, anytime, on any device, for as long as they're at UVA.
OneDrive/SharePoint throught Microsoft Office 365 Tools (OneDrive offers: 5 TB storage)
Other Software and Subscriptions Available
- Antiviruses: Windows Defender, Gatekeeper
- LastPass: is a password management tool for both personal and UVA account passwords. It will remember your passwords, autofill login information, and generate new passwords for you. LastPass can be used on computers and mobile devices.
- Overleaf: LaTeX Online
- UVA Hive access to a virtual machine with various software (e.g., Stata)
- Statistical Softwares such as SPSS, SAS, ArcGIS, MATLAB, and Mathematica.