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Purpose of Shared UW NetIDs
Faculty and staff can use Shared UW NetIDs to further their research, collaborate on group projects, and expedite any academic or administrative work at the UW. Shared UW NetID accounts are designed to supplement your individual account for facilitating your work activities. Common situations where Shared UW NetIDs are appropriate:
- A departmental email address is needed to handle email messages to and from a department rather than an individual.
- A website needs to be created for a department or a course, and it should not be owned by a personal account.
- Some activity requires access to an account by more than a single individual. Note that access by more than one person to an individual account is not permitted on the Uniform Access computers.
Types of Shared UW NetIDs
- Departmental accounts support the electronic presence of a UW department or unit, or support business of the unit requiring multiple people to have access to a single account.
- UW Medicine Shared accounts support the activities of UW Medicine personnel and require that the account owner has an active UW Medicine affiliation. These Shared accounts are automatically provisioned for UW Office 365 and are unable to use UW Google due to HIPAA regulations.
Request a Shared NetID from UW-IT
Before requesting a shared NetID, please read and be familiar with UW IT’s Shared UW NetIDs information and Appropriate Use Policies.
Shared NetID accounts must be requested using UW-IT’s Shared UW NetID Account Request.