Getting Started: Faculty & Staff

Policies and Procedures:  First, please review all policies and procedures issued by the Office for Information Technology. 

Telecom:  Also, review services offered through our Telecommunications office and the proper procedure to sign up for those services.

VikingWeb

VikingWeb is an online portal used to access academic information such as class schedules, grades, and class assignments.   Incoming students will receive automatic notification of their VikingWeb login username and password upon applying to Berry.  New faculty and staff members should input their user and password information here, also. The username will be the same as their Berry ID numbers, and they will be able to come up with or change their own passwords so long as they have a Berry email account.

View this short 2-minute "film" to assist in changing your VikingWeb password.

Email

New accounts for faculty and staff will be requested by department heads and employment status verified through the Human Resources Department. If you forget or lose your password, for security reasons, you must come to the Technical Support Desk (Hermann Hall 126) and present valid ID to have your password reset. Faculty and staff may access email on the web at https://mail.berry.edu. They can also call the Technical Support Desk at (706)238-5838 to have a technician setup email using Outlook or Entourage on that person's office computer. To keep faculty and staff from having to deal with unreasonable amounts of spam, Berry uses the Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall and GFI MailEssentials. Space limitations vary depending on the position of the Faculty or Staff member. For more information on managing your mailbox, click one of the links below:

• Using Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall
• Rules and Alerts in Outlook 2003
• How to Use Outlook 2003 AutoArchive
• Managing Junk Email
  (Outlook 2003 and Outlook Web Access)
• Using Flags in Outlook 2003
• Email Housekeeping

Faculty Web Space

Berry College has two web servers designated for Faculty and/or Staff members.

FacultyWeb allows faculty and staff to have a personal web presence. In order to access this space, users must first request an account be setup for them. Users can request a personal FacultyWeb account here.

FSS Web enables instructors to manage and allot web space to students for course projects and other coursework. Faculty members can find more instructions on requesting an account and using this web space here.

Security and Passwords

Your password for the Berry E-mail system is valid for one year from the time you last changed it. If your password is not changed at least once every 365 days, it will expire and you will become locked out of your email account until a new password is set. If you are using the online, “web access” version at https://mail.berry.edu , then you should begin to receive warning notices 14 days before your password expires. Third party e-mail programs such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, and Entourage do not display these notices correctly and you will not receive any warning before your password expires if you use any of these programs to read your e-mail.

Instructions for changing your Berry E-mail password:

1. Go to your email account at https://mail.berry.edu and enter your username and password.
2. From the menu panel (at the bottom of the left window panel), choose “Options”.
3. In the main window, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button to “Change Password”. This will open another window.
4. Fill in the appropriate blanks as follows:

View this short "film" for assistance.