Login Information - Students

If you registered early, you will be able to log into your Blackboard account the day the semester starts. If you registered after the semester had already started, you will not be able to log in for a few days. During the first two weeks of the semester, we create accounts once a day; after the first two weeks of the semester we create accounts once a week. Each student who registers for classes at CSI will automatically have a Blackboard account created. Students have to register for courses through the Records Office. Based on that information, Blackboard accounts are created.

The initial username and password are almost the same for CSI student e-mail account, network, Blackboard and online library resources (Blackboard uses your full last name where network, email, and library online resources use only first 13 letters). Login to MyCSI is different (uses a PIN that you retrieve online). Important: when you change your password for network/e-mail/library, your Blackboard password does NOT automatically change (and vice versa). You can change your Blackboard password separately after you first log into the system.  We strongly encourage all students to change their default password to a secret password that they only know and can easily remember, yet others cannot guess. To change passwords in Blackboard, you need to log in once then go to Personal Information, Change Password. In order to avoid unauthorized access to your account (including grades posted in Blackboard), please do not share the secret password with anyone.

Please read the following information carefully before attempting to log in.

USERNAME: first three letters of first name, full last name (including hyphenates), birth month, and birth day with leading zeros.

• No spaces anywhere. If you did not register a birthdate with CSI, your birthday will be 0101.

PASSWORD: First name initial (ALL CAPS), Last name initial (ALL CAPS), and CSI Student ID with leading zeros

Example 1: John Doe who was born May 16th. CSI ID#: 201111

• username: johdoe0516 password: JD201111
• John Doe's CSI e-mail address: johdoe0516@students.csi.edu

Example 2: John Q. Public, born September 15th. CSI ID#: 837549

• username: johpublic0915 password: JP837549
• email: johpublic@students.csi.edu

Example 3: Mary Hernandez-Garcia, born May 1st. CSI ID#: 8372

• username: marhernandez-garcia0501 password: MH008372
• email: marhernandez-gar0501@students.csi.edu

Example 4: Paul McCartney, no birth date or middle name specified when he registered. CSI ID#: 93829

• username: paumccartney0101 password: PM093829
• email: paumccartney0101@students.csi.edu