4. Log into Your Email Account (Required)

The University of Minnesota uses U of M email addresses as its primary means of communication. In the midst of the many things you will receive from the University at large will be a few important things such as the summary results of the course evaluations submitted by your CIS students at the end of each of your classes.

• We use your high school email address for communications about such things as student registration and reminders about professional development workshops.

• When CIS needs to contact you with private student data, we use only your U of M email because we cannot control the security of all high school email systems. 

Cohort Emails

Note that you will receive email from your cohort Google Group at both email accounts. We enroll you under both email addresses so you can respond from whichever account you happen to be in.

Important Emails

Please pay particular attention to emails from cis@umn.edu, kknudson@umn.edu, and cisenroll@umn.edu; they typically contain time-sensitive information or requests.

Log In to Your U of M Email

Go to mail.umn.edu or log in to MyU with your U of M internet ID and password and click on the email icon near the top.

Email Settings

See the Univeristy's guide to Gmail for topics such as: setting up email on a mobile device, email forwarding, and help guides.

Record Privacy and Suppression

The University and CIS take the privacy of student records very seriously. Release of student information to third parties is regulated by Regents policy, federal law, and state law, and particularly by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). 

Students and instructors are able to suppress their public directory information (that is, data publicly available: name; dates of enrollment and registration status; major, advisor, college, and class level; academic awards and degrees received) and limited directory information (information is made available to student groups, staff, and faculty at the University of Minnesota by request: mailing address, email address, and telephone number). 

How to Suppress Your Information

Go to MyU, select “My Info” at the left. Here you can choose which piece(s) of information you want suppressed and click a button to enact the suppression of your data. (Note that One Stop can better assist students who suppress only their contact information than those who also suppress their enrollment data.) A step-by-step guide to Set Directory Suppression is available on One Stop.