IT Services


IDs for Students at Dumfries campus

University of Glasgow students attending Dumfries campus have 2 user ids.

Why?

This is because you have user accounts from both the University of Glasgow and the University of the West of Scotland.

Whats the difference?

University of Glasgow - your user name is known as a GUID and is your registration/matriculation number followed by  the first letter of your surname eg 1012345A.

University of the West of Scotland - your user name is your GUID prefixed with a G eg G1012345A.

Where do I use the University of the Glasgow GUID?

For Glasgow facilities including Email, Websurf and Moodle etc, use:

  • Your Glasgow GUID
  • eg 102345A
Where do I use the University of the West of Scotland G-GUID?

For Cluster workstations at Dumfries Campus including printing and filestore access (provided by the University of West of Scotland.)

Logging in to Cluster workstations at Dumfries
  • Your Glasgow GUID prefixed by a G
  • eg G1012345A
  • This is known as UWS AD log in

Changing your password

TIP: Change your password for both systems to the same one

University of Glasgow GUID

Use password self service

This will change your password for all University of Glasgow IT services.
Note: While in Password self service Please set your challenge/response question which will allow you to recover a forgotten GUID password.

University of West of Scotland G-GUID

While successfully logged into a Dumfries cluster workstation press ctrl-alt-del then change your password in the dialogue box.
Note: this only changes your G-GUID password and is only for logging into Dumfries cluster PCs.

Support

Glasgow facilities
(GUID issues, Email, Moodle, WebSURF, general enquiries etc)

Dumfries Campus
(Cluster workstations, G prefixed passwords, wireless access, printing and filestore)

IT Helpdesk
Rutherford McCowan building room 347

t: extn. 2028 (01387 70 2028)