Oxford University Computing Services

The accounts you’ll need to access different IT services You’ll hear a lot of terms relating to your various IT accounts when you join the University. Here’s a simple guide to the ones provided centrally, however you may also be given additional account details by your college or department in order to access local facilities. Your Oxford username Who is it for? Everyone at Oxford – staff and students – has an Oxford username. What does it do? Your Oxford username will form the basis of your various IT accounts – see details below. What does it look like? Oxford usernames are usually in the format abcd1234: abcd refers to your primary college or department when you first join and 1234 is an identifying number.