CAE Account Renewal by type

This document shows what it takes to keep a CAE account active.

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

CAE Account Renewal by type

CAE Account Renewal by type

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