Congratulations on completing your studies and your graduation.

 

These are the changes you can expect to your Library and IT access, and the steps you should take in advance.  

 

  1. After you complete your course:

 

After you have finished your final exams and completed your submissions, the student business team for your faculty will mark your student record as ‘Completed’. This can happen at different times from department to department. 

When your status changes to ‘Completed’, you will lose access to the following services:

 

  • Pegasus
  • Your University H Drive, including any stored data
  • Software downloads
  • Password reset functions
  • Electronic resources via the library,  e.g. ebooks and journals.

 

 

  1. After you graduate:

 

·  Following your graduation, your account will go into suspension. This will take place at the beginning of December in the year you graduate. You will receive an email notification to your student email account two weeks before this takes place to notify you of the exact date.

When your account is suspended, you will lose access to the following services:


 

  • Your email account
  • MyPlace
  • Your University OneDrive, including any stored data.
  • Office365 apps - you will no longer be able to edit or save documents. You will be able to view documents saved to your device.
  • All other University systems.

 


 

  1. Library Access

 

 You will continue to have reference access to the library from the end of June until mid -August following the end of your course. Reference access means you will be able to enter the building, but will not be able to borrow books or access electronic resources.

 

If you would like to continue borrowing books from the library, you can apply for a Graduate membership. Graduate memberships do not include access to electronic resources. Details can be found here: 

 

https://www.strath.ac.uk/professionalservices/library/visit/join/ 

 

 Things to do:

 

We recommend undertaking these steps as soon as possible after your final exams/submissions .

 

 

  • SAVE ANY INFORMATION FROM PEGASUS YOU WANT TO KEEP.
  • SAVE FILES FROM YOUR H DRIVE/ONEDRIVE YOU WANT TO KEEP.
  • SAVE ANY INFORMATION FROM MYPLACE YOU WANT TO KEEP. You may find in future you wish to access slides, study materials, etc. in preparation for job interviews or future work. Please ensure that you download these as soon as possible.
  • UPDATE YOUR EMAIL ON EXTERNAL SERVICES. If you have used your student email account to register for any services or online stores, etc., it is important that you update this to a personal email address.
  • ARCHIVE YOUR EMAILS. If you would like to keep a copy of any emails from your student email account, you can forward these to your personal address. If you want to keep a copy of all of your correspondence, you can create a .pst file using the Outlook app —the following link has information on how to do this


          https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-an-outlook-data-file-pst-to-save-your-information-17a13ca2-df52-48e8-b933-4c84c2aabe7c


  • SET UP AN OUT OF OFFICE MESSAGE. If you’d like to make sure any contacts trying to reach you at your student email address are notified, you can set up an out of office message providing a personal email. This will continue to function until October in the year after your graduation. The following links have information on how to do this:


How to set up an out of office message for Outlook on the web:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/send-automatic-out-of-office-replies-in-outlook-0c193ab0-b9e1-4058-84be-a5b014242290#ID0EBBF=Web


How to set up an out of office message for Outlook app:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/send-automatic-out-of-office-replies-from-outlook-9742f476-5348-4f9f-997f-5e208513bd67