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CAE Account Renewal by type
For most people, the CAE account will just continue to be valid as long as they meet our eligibility requirements. Student, faculty, and staff accounts are validated automatically using campus databases. Students must have an engineering major or be enrolled in an engineering course in order to qualify for an account. Faculty and staff must have an appointment within the College of Engineering (zero percent appointments count) to qualify for an account.
We do have some special account types that require periodic validation for them to continue. The main reason we do the periodic account validation is to find out if the account is still needed. All other account types require some sort of active validation, usually once or twice a year. Notifications of this are sent via email.
The following table shows the various account types, and how the validation can be done. Some accounts can "self validate" by just logging in to the "My Account" page on the CAE Website. Others require that the "link id" owner of the account use the "My Account" page to validate the account. If an account is marked where it can't be self validated or the owner validated, then it must go through a CAE staff person to be marked valid. For more information on renewing a collaborator account, see https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/page.php?id=13112
Please note: Not all account types are in use, and some are getting phased out.
| Account Type | Requires Validation | Can self validate | Can owner validate | Can owner reset password |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student | Spring/Fall | No | No | No |
| System | Never | No | No | No |
| Staff | Spring/Fall | No | No | No |
| Faculty | Spring/Fall | No | No | No |
| Pseudo | Every Semester | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Other | Every Semester | No | No | No |
| Expire | Every Semester | No | No | No |
| CAE Student Employee | Spring/Fall | No | No | No |
| Course Account | Never | No | No | No |
| CAE Unix Staff | Spring/Fall | No | No | No |
| CAE NetWare Staff | Spring/Fall | No | No | No |
| CAE Hardware Staff | Spring/Fall | No | No | No |
| CAE Consulting Staff | Spring/Fall | No | No | No |
| CAE Faculty Support | Spring/Fall | No | No | No |
| CAE Permanent Staff | Spring/Fall | No | No | No |
| Network Computing | Every Semester | No | No | No |
| WEB | Never | No | No | No |
| Pseudo - Until Fall | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Registered Student Org | Fall | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TEMP Account | Not Applicable | No | No | No |
| Email Only | Fall | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Only | Every Semester | No | No | No |
| Unix Only | Every Semester | No | No | No |
| Tethered Only | Every Semester | No | No | No |
| Web Edit Only | Fall | No | Yes | No |
| Moodle Only | Every Semester | No | No | No |
| Collaborator Only | Fall | No | Yes | No |