{"id":810,"date":"2023-02-10T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campus.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/its\/?page_id=810"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:39:39","slug":"student-accounts-and-services-through-ccs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/campus.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/its\/student-accounts-and-services-through-ccs\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Accounts and Services through CCS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All students will have access to various resources including Google Workspace for Education (email, calendar, drive, etc), Adobe Suite (credit and pre-college students), VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), LinkedIn Learning, library databases, student self-service, Canvas learning management system, and associated other services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Timelines<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Incoming students<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Incoming students will receive their campus login including access to Google and self-service when they are admitted to CCS.&nbsp; Other services listed above will be activated 2-3 weeks in advance of their starting semester (mid-August or mid-December).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Graduating students<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email\/Google:<\/strong>\u00a0 CCS graduates can keep their email access indefinitely as long as it is in active use.\u00a0 <strong>No request is necessary for this to happen.<\/strong>\u00a0 Periodically we do purge accounts, but always warn graduates via email 2-3 weeks ahead of time.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t detect current usage and you get such a notification, simply respond saying you\u2019re still using the account and we\u2019ll maintain it.\u00a0 <strong>CCS Graduates are limited to 100 GB in total storage on Google&#8217;s platform (combined storage for Gmail, Photos, and Drive).  Google Drive files over that limit are subject to deletion without further notice after the add period of the semester after graduation.<\/strong>  Graduates will be removed from the ccs students email distribution list after graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Adobe Suite:&nbsp;<\/strong> Access to Adobe will terminate after graduation.&nbsp; For May graduates, we extend access into August to allow time to transition out.&nbsp; This includes Adobe Portfolio \u2013 please don\u2019t use this service expecting to maintain it after graduation.&nbsp; Adobe currently offers a one-time migration of your cloud assets to a paid account, but technical details and challenges do arise with this, particularly with the Portfolio product.&nbsp; For December graduates, we typically extend access into March.&nbsp; A warning will be sent&nbsp;to your <strong>CCS email address<\/strong>&nbsp;prior to making any changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VDI, LinkedIn Learning, library databases:<\/strong>&nbsp; access will cease after the add period of the first semester you\u2019re not enrolled (mid-September for May graduates, grace period to March for December graduates).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please visit <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/alumni\/alumni-community-2\/alumni-services-benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/alumni\/alumni-community-2\/alumni-services-benefits\/<\/a> for a list of current Alumni Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Students taking a semester or two away from CCS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Email, self-service, etc will stay active.&nbsp; Adobe access will be suspended, as will most other services during the time you\u2019re not here.&nbsp; Any exceptions to this must be for very specific situations and go through your department chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accounts for students on Study Abroad &amp; Exchange Programs will remain active (<a href=\"https:\/\/campus.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/intl-student-services\/study-abroad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contact the CCS Global Programs advisor<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Students who have been away longer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We are unable to keep accounts open for non-current students (with the exception of access for CCS graduates).  Non-graduated students who have been away for at least four semesters will have their accounts inactivated.  Should they later be readmitted to CCS and return, applicable accounts will be reinstated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Continuing Education<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Appropriate services will be available during the semester enrolled, but should be expected to end immediately if not enrolled the following semester.&nbsp; No warning will be given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Educational Use Software<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As a reminder, most software at CCS is licensed for educational use only.&nbsp; If a student is using for professional, non-educational work, they are responsible for obtaining their own properly licensed software for that purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All students will have access to various resources including Google Workspace for Education (email, calendar, drive, etc), Adobe Suite (credit and pre-college students), VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), LinkedIn Learning, library databases, student self-service, Canvas learning management system, and associated other services. Timelines Incoming students Incoming students will receive their campus login including access to Google &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/campus.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/its\/student-accounts-and-services-through-ccs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Student Accounts and Services through CCS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-810","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/campus.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/its\/author\/sevans\/","display_name":"Sean Evans"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 3 years ago","modified":"Updated 2 weeks ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on February 10, 2023","modified":"Updated on April 2, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on February 10, 2023 3:32 pm","modified":"Updated on April 2, 2026 12:39 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/campus.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/campus.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/campus.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/campus.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/campus.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/campus.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/campus.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/810\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/campus.collegeforcreativestudies.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}