Alumni email accounts are created during fall and spring semesters for current students who have completed the following numbers of units.

• Undergraduate: 90+ earned
• Seminary: 60+ earned hours
• Law: 79+ earned hours
• Graduate: 24+ earned hours

To access your alumni.baylor.edu account, do the following:

• When you access your alumni email account for the first time, retrieve your initial password from the message sent to your Baylor student email account.
• Go to www.outlook.com/alumni.baylor.edu and enter your new alumni email account (e.g., Your_Bear_ID3@alumni.baylor.edu) under "Sign in with your work or school account." Then, enter your initial password. You will be required to change this password as part of the initial login process.

While you have access to both your Baylor student and Baylor alumni email accounts, you should migrate all mail that you want to keep. Messages can easily be moved by sending the email from their student account to their alumni email account.

This is a free service that provides 50 GB mailboxes. The system includes calendar and contacts features and has the look and feel of Outlook Web Access (OWA) used by Baylor students to access their university email accounts. Also, this allows proud Baylor Bears to display their continued affiliation with the university through the "@alumni.baylor.edu" account name!

Baylor has provided email accounts for alumni for many years and we plan to continue to do so. We believe the new hosted alumni accounts, however, will afford many advantages to our former students including a much larger quota and continued access to features that students have enjoyed.

The decision was made in consultation with our ITS Student Advisory Group, Student Senate, focus groups, and senior administration. Careful consideration was given the desire of many grads to be identified in Baylor email as alumni, to keep their original usernames, and to have a larger quota. ITS also needed to consider the technical concerns, licensing costs, and resource limitations associated with providing this service. A high priority was to provide Baylor alumni with an improved email benefit while retaining an affiliation with the university.

You will be required to set a new password the first time you login to the system, but you can change your password within the new alumni email system at any time. To make this change:

• From within the system - under the gear wheel icon next to your name in the upper right corner of the page, select "Office 365 settings" from the pull down menu.
• At that page, select the "password" link from the list on the left.
• This brings up the form for the password change. Follow the instructions to make the change.

If you established a mobile number on your Baylor alumni email account, you can reset your password by requesting to receive a code on your mobile device. If you do not have your mobile number registered on your Baylor alumni email account, please call the Help Desk at (254) 710-4357 and an associate will help you reset your password. Be sure to identify yourself as a former student with a question about your alumni account.

No. The alumni.baylor.edu email password is changed on the Microsoft site and the BearID password is changed on the Baylor website. Changing one does not update the other.

During the time when both your @baylor.edu and @alumni.baylor.edu accounts are active, you should notify as many people as possible with whom you correspond regularly of your new address, as well as update your address on sites like Facebook and Twitter. During this time, you should also move the mail messages you want to keep to your new account. Another way to tell folks about your new account is to set an out-of-office message on your student @baylor.edu account indicating your new @alumni.baylor.edu address.

Baylor has no way to notify the various entities where you may have listed your student email address as contact information, so please notify your contacts of your new address by setting an out-of-office message after you graduate with your alumni email information.

There is no automated process for moving email from your student account to your alumni account. One way to get the messages there is to send the messages you want to keep from your student account to your alumni account.

There is no automated process for moving calendar and contact entries from the student email account to the new alumni email account. However, if you can format your contacts into a .csv file, they can be imported into the alumni account by following instructions on the "Import your contacts..." link on the My Account page from the Options menu. During the migration, you may see errors when your calendar/contact information attempts to migrate, which is normal behavior in our migration process.

Yes. The new account can be accessed on your mobile device by setting up the account using your account name and password similar to other email accounts (e.g., Exchange, Gmail). NOTE: If you choose to use IMAP for your connection setting on a mobile device, please use outlook.office365.com for both your incoming and outgoing server settings.