Usernames and Passwords

LTU Computers and Printers

LTU laptops, public computers, secured wireless network, printers and shares use the same username and password, called your Campus username and password or your Campus credentials. Blackboard also uses these same credentials.

To change your Campus password 

1. Please use LTU's MyPassword website to change your Campus password.
2. Choose Edit my Profile, if you have not set up profile previously. If you have a profile set up, skip to Step 5.
3. Your initial password is your 8 digit birthdate MMDDYYYY. For security reasons, you should change your password from the initial Campus password.
4. Choose two security questions and click update.
5. Select Change my Password. Enter your Campus username and password. Choose a new 8 character or more password that has not been used the previous 7 times.

You may also contact the Help Desk at 248.204.2330 or helpdesk@ltu.edu to have your Campus password reset.

Logging into Blackboard 9.1

Your Blackboard username and password are the same. Please remember - when you change your campus password, your Blackboard password also changes.

Look up your username in BannerWeb

1. Log into BannerWeb.
2. Click on Personal Information.
3. Click on View Email Addresses.
4. The campus email address before the @ltu.edu is your new campus username.

First time logging in Blackboard?

For security reasons, you should change your password the first time you log into Blackboard.

• Verify, and/or update email address listed in Blackboard and change password
• Blackboard (by default) uses the LTU email address (username@ltu.edu); any email sent from any course or organization is sent to the email address listed in Blackboard.

To change your Campus password 

1. Please use LTU's MyPassword website to change your Campus password.
2. Choose Edit my Profile, if you have not set up profile previously. If you have a profile set up, skip to Step 5.
3. Your initial password is your 8 digit birthdate MMDDYYYY. For security reasons, you should change your password from the initial Campus password.
4. Choose two security questions and click update.
5. Select Change my Password. Enter your Campus username and password. Choose a new 8 character or more password that has not been used the previous 7 times.

You may also contact the Help Desk at 248.204.2330 or helpdesk@ltu.edu to have your Campus password reset.

LTU WebMail

To start using you LTU Webmail, powered by Google (GApps for Education Edition), you will need to know a couple of things.

LTU WebMail Login

Your LTU email user name

You can find this by logging into BannerWeb. Click on the Personal Information link. Click on View E-mail Address(es) Your new email address is listed under Campus Email Address, Preferred.

Your LTU email initial password

Your initial or default Gmail password is your birth date in MMDDYYYY format. This password must be changed when you login the first time.

Logging in to your LTU Webmail for the first time

There are three steps to login to your new LTU Webmail account for the first time.

1. Open your browser to to the LTU Webmail page and login using your LTU WebMail user name and your initial (default) password which is your 8-digit birth date in MDDYYYY format.
2. On the next screen, create a new password. For your own security, create a password that’s hard to guess. The password strength indicator will be completely green if you choose a strong password. Select the language, type the text shown in the security image in the input box.
3. Read the terms and conditions, and then click “I accept. Create my account button.”

What is Phishing?

Phishing:  The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. Identify theft can be devastating to the victim and is difficult, costly, and time-consuming to fix.

Our email service is through Google Apps for Education and individual email storage capacity is 25 GBs; therefore, the likelihood of running out of email storage is extremely low.

To help the Lawrence Tech community recognize a legitimate email message, please remember:

• Messages sent from Lawrence Tech IT Services will always be signed by name.
• You will never be asked to send personal information in an email message. 
• Any email message which indicates that you are over your email storage quota is almost always a phishing attempt.

There are many web sites which can help explain phishing tactics and what you can do to protect yourself.  For more information, look at these sites:

• The Federal Trade Commission, FTC Consumer Alert:
• The Anti-Phishing Working Group

Strong Passwords

One of the most important ways to secure your data and protect your personal information is to know how to create and use strong passwords.  Using strong passwords and changing them regularly can help keep you safe from attackers who try to access your accounts by guessing or cracking your passwords. A strong password is difficult to guess, has 8 or more characters, isn't a word in the dictionary (regardless of language), and includes numbers and special characters. 

How to create strong passwords

If you need help creating a strong password, here are some suggestions:

• Pick a phrase you can easily remember. Use the first or last letter of each word and put it together for a password. For example: Lawrence Technological University: Theory and Practice since 1932 password would be: ltu:taps1
• Capitalize some of the letters: hAveAGooDDay
• Use numbers in place of vowels: secr1tP4ssw0rd
• Remove some letters from a word or misspell it intentionally: Xpearimntl
• Include special characters: what_t!me?izit

Good password practices

Remember to guard your identity and data by following these practices:

1. Don't share your password with anyone. It's a violation of Lawrence Tech Computing policy to share your username and password information with anyone.
2. Don't store passwords on your computer, have your browser remember them, or leave them written on pieces of paper around your computer.
3. Use different passwords for different systems. Don't use the same password for every website and account you have. If you use the same password for all your accounts and it's compromised, then all your accounts are compromised.
4. Don't create passwords using personal information like birthdays, names of children, pets, phone numbers, or addresses. Social networking sites make your personal information widely available and your password may be easy to guess.
5. Make your passwords really long. The longer a password is, the harder it is to crack.
6. Change your passwords regularly.
7. Change your password after international travel and after using a non-secure network.

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