Account Classes and Groups
Every CSE account belongs to at least one Account Class.
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- Describe your relationship with the school
- Give you access to CSE computers and files
- Give you resources such as disk quota
- Put you on relevant mailing lists
User classes
COMP1234\_StudentCOMP1234\_Lecturer,COMP2345\_TutorCSEOffice\_Admin,CSE\_Teaching,CSE\_Research
Miscellaneous classes
Group classes
Checking your account classes
User Classes
This is a student enrolled in COMP9331 and the 3645 program.
Group Classes
They're a member of group.spider, giving them access to files group-owned by spider.
Misc Classes
They're in Personal100MegDiscQuota, which grants extra disk space.
Expires
Shows the account's expiry date - the expiry date of the last User class to expire.
Class Membership and Expiry Dates
Account class membership and expiry dates are managed in different ways, depending on the class in question.
Student Classes
Course Classes (eg: COMP2031_Student)
Students are put into course classes while they're enrolled and the course is in session.
Start Date (earliest)
A week before the start of session
Expiry Date (latest)
Six weeks after the end of session.
Undergraduate Thesis Classes (eg: COMP4910_Student)
Start Date (earliest)
Four weeks before the start of session
Expiry Date (latest)
The day before the start of next session
Postgraduate Thesis Classes (eg: COMP9902_Student)
Start Date (earliest)
Beginning of the year
Expiry Date (latest)
Session 1 HECS census date (generally the 31st of March) next year.
CSE Program Classes (eg: 3778_Student)
Start Date (earliest)
A week before the start of your first session enrolled at CSE
Expiry Date (latest)
HECS census date of the session after your last session enrolled at CSE.
(31st of March for session 1, 31st of August for session 2).
Non-CSE Program Classes (eg: UGrad_Student)
Start Date (earliest)
A week before the start of session (while you're enrolled at CSE)
Expiry Date (latest)
The day before the start of the session after session
Non-Student Classes
Course-related Classes (eg: COMP1011_Supervisor or COMP1011_Tutor)
Staff, Research, Visitor and Courtesy classes
For staff or research classes
Contact the School office, asking them to confirm your ongoing position to CSG
For all other User classes
Contact your supervisor or sponsor, asking them to confirm your ongoing relationship with the school to CSG.
Miscellaneous classes
zPass Keeps Locking
If your account gets too many failed logins in a row, your zPass will be locked - this is to stop people from brute-force guessing your password.
Account Disabled
If you get a message telling you that you are not permitted to login to one of the lab machines or login servers, this means that your account has been disab…