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Account Claiming: The process by which applicants or new employees activate their BroncoIdentities.
Active Directory: A system that is synchronized with BroncoNames and BroncoPasswords automatically for use with applications such as Exchange.
Blackboard: An on-line learning management system (LMS). Faculty develop their courses on-line. Students take these courses on-line.
Bronco Access Card: The plastic identification card provided to current students, employees, and some affiliates.
Bronco ID: see BroncoNumber
BroncoDirect: The campus information system that provides services such as admissions information, class scheduling, registration, grading, academic advisement, and financial aid.
BroncoDirect Password: The password formerly used to access BroncoDirect in conjunction with the BroncoNumber. All users should now use their BroncoName and BroncoPassword instead.
BroncoDirect Roles: Students, and those employees who have need to access BroncoDirect, are assigned to one or more roles that define which services they receive. Currently there are four roles: Advisor, Applicant, Instructor, and Student.
BroncoIdentity: The information that makes you known to the Cal Poly Pomona identity management system, and that enables you to use the central computer resources of the university. It contains your BroncoName, BroncoPassword, and BroncoNumber.
BroncoName: Your BroncoName is your Cal Poly Pomona username. It is the part before "@csupomona.edu" in your email address (so that if your email were billybronco@csupomona.edu, your BroncoName would be billybronco).
BroncoNumber: The 9-digit number assigned to all students, employees, and affiliates as their unique identifier at Cal Poly Pomona. Your BroncoNumber is printed on your Bronco Access Card. It is not used as a username for logging into any computer system; use your BroncoName instead.
BroncoPassword: Your BroncoPassword is used along with your BroncoName to log into BroncoDirect, Blackboard, WebCT, and (except for a few faculty and staff) your Cal Poly Pomona email.
Browser: A program that accesses and displays files and other data available on the Internet and other networks, e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, and MSN.
CENIC: CENIC is the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California. It will represent the common interests of California's higher education academic and research communities in achieving robust, high capacity, next generation Internet communications services. CENIC's membership is drawn from California higher education institutions and information technology industries. It is highly accountable to the institutions it serves in order to fulfill the trust that will be placed with it.
Claim Code: An alphanumeric or numeric code given to applicants and new employees as part of the process of Account Claiming.
CMS: 1. Common Management System, the CSU implementation of the PeopleSoft Student Administration, Human Resources, and Finance systems. 2. Course Management System (called Learning Management System at Cal Poly Pomona).
DNS: See Domain Name System.
Domain: A computer domain is a group of networked computers that share a common communications address.
Domain Name System: Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed Internet directory service. DNS is used mostly to translate between domain names and IP addresses, and to control Internet email delivery. Most Internet services rely on DNS to work, and if DNS fails, web sites cannot be located and email delivery stalls.
E-Mail Login: For the central Cal Poly Pomona email systems (currently the Intranet and the Cal Poly Pomona Exchange Server), enter the BroncoName for username and the BroncoPassword for password. Other systems may have different requirements.
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
Hardware: Computer and the associated physical equipment directly involved in the performance of data-processing or communications functions.
Identity Management Group: A group of BroncoIdentities (hence of users) who share access to resources permitted to that group. Groups may be automatically created, from data in PeopleSoft or other authoritative sources, or they may be manually created to provide resources to arbitrary groups of people.
Identity Management Role: see Identity Management Group
Intranet Group: see Identity Management Group
Intranet Identity: see BroncoIdentity
Intranet Password: see BroncoPassword
Intranet Username: see BroncoName
LDAP: LDAP, or "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol", is a standard that defines a network protocol for accessing information in the directory, an information model defining the form and character of the information, a namespace defining how information is referenced and organized, and an emerging distributed operation model defining how data may be distributed and referenced.
LDAP password: see BroncoPassword
LDAP username: see BroncoName
Login: The user name and password used to access a computer system.
Network Password: The password used to log in to the Virtual Private Network (VPN) and the CPP wireless network. It may not be the same as your BroncoPassword.
Network Ports: One of several network connecting points inside a networking router or switch that connects to the campus Wide Area Network.
Open Labs (General Computing Labs): Refers to several open access general computing labs that are available for use by current Students, Faculty, and Staff.
Oracle: The database software used to support Cal Poly Pomona's student information system and most other campus database systems.
Outlook Web Access: The web-based interface to the Cal Poly Pomona Exchange Server (also called OWA).
Password: A string of characters, kept as a secret by a computer user, that allows access to a computer system.
PeopleSoft: The company that produced the Common Management System (CMS), used by the California State University for student administration, human resources, and finance. The PeopleSoft system is most often accessed through BroncoDirect or Finance Web Tools.
Photo ID: see Bronco Access Card
PIN: Personal Identification Number. PINs were formerly used for access to several central computer resources, but they are now used only by the Library.
Software: The programs, routines, and symbolic languages that control the functioning of the hardware and direct its operation.
Spam: Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk e-mail.
Training Labs (Instructional Labs): Refers to several instructional support labs that are available for use by instructors who want to teach hands on courses.
Trojan Horse: Trojan horses are malicious programs disguised as something benign. They have been known to pose as games, utilities, and email attachments. Once opened, Trojan horses act much differently than expected. Some merely annoy users by sending emails to everyone in your address book. Others do serious damage, to the point of stealing passwords and data files. Unlike viruses, Trojan horses are not self-replicating. Active Trojan horses are an advanced type of Trojan horse. They use unprotected ports to open lines of communication with your computer and can ultimately give hackers control over your machine. Active Trojan horses are also called Remote Access Trojans. (Symantec Reference)
Username: The identifier used to authenticate to a computer system, ordinarily used along with a password.
Video Streaming: A method for transferring video such that it can be processed as a firm and continuous stream. With streaming, the client can start presenting the data before the whole file has been transmitted.
Virtual Private Network (VPN): A system of two or more private networks connected over a public telecommunications infrastructure such as the Internet. The Cal Poly Pomona VPN service provides an off-campus individual secured access to resources typically reserved for on-campus use only.
Virus: Viruses are self-executing, self-replicating programs. They alter the way a computer operates without the knowledge or permission of the user. When activated, viruses may damage files, cause erratic system behavior, or display annoying messages. The ability to self-replicate differentiates viruses from Trojan horses, worms, and other virus-like programs. Much like a biologial virus passes from person to person, computer viruses pass from computer to computer. (Symantec Reference)
Web Mail: The web-based interface to Intranet email, scheduled to become obsolete in Fall 2006.
WebCT: An on-line course management system (CMS) or learning management system (LMS). Faculty develop their courses on-line. Students take these courses on-line.
Wireless Connection: A wireless connection is a network connection that requires a special network card for the computer and special wireless access points.
Worm: A worm is a self-replicating virus that does not alter files but resides in active memory and duplicates itself. Worms use parts of an operating system that are automatic and usually invisible to the user. It is common for worms to be noticed only when their uncontrolled replication consumes system resources, slowing or halting other tasks. (Symantec Reference)