Access to university and college resources, accounts and servers

Dear students,

The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and Babeș-Bolyai University offer you a series of related platforms and accounts to be used in the teaching process:

Resources provided by the university

The Babeș-Bolyai University grants access to Microsoft Teams and Office 365, in addition to the Academic Info platform accessible at https://academicinfo.ubbcluj.ro/. Academic Info and the website of the Directorate of Information Technology and Communications (DTIC) of UBB contain instructions on how to connect to these platforms: https://dtic.ubbcluj.ro/tutorial/conectare-office365-studenti. Exclusive support for Microsoft Teams and @stud.ubbcluj.ro accounts is provided by DTIC UBB; for assistance with access issues, please email help.office365@ubbcluj.ro to reach this university department.

Resources provided by the faculty

At the same time with the aforementioned platforms, the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science will provide access to a series of specialized servers and resources required for the instruction of diverse curriculum subjects; the most critical among these are the @scs e-mail boxes (https://www.scs.ubbcluj.ro/webmail/), the Linux server (www.scs.ubbcluj.ro), the Moodle server (https://moodle.cs.ubbcluj.ro), and the networks comprising Windows compute. Furthermore, by providing the email addresses listed on the form @scs.ubbcluj.ro, individuals are eligible to register for complimentary access to a variety of software licenses that are exclusively available to students enrolled in our faculty. Prominent examples of such licenses include those provided by JetBrains and Microsoft via Microsoft Azure.

The preliminary authentication credentials for the faculty-provided email accounts (those with the format @scs.ubbcluj.ro) and the Linux server www.scs.ubbcluj.ro can be accessed at the following URL: https://www.scs.ubbcluj.ro/scspasswd. In order to initiate and successfully activate the email box, it is necessary to perform an initial authentication at the following address: https://www.scs.ubbcluj.ro/webmail/.

Please email the faculty system engineers at ithelp.mcs@ubbcluj.onmicrosoft.com for assistance with these mailboxes and any connection issues. Please refrain from contacting the faculty's system engineers regarding issues pertaining to MS Teams or accounts managed through the form @stud.ubbcluj.ro. DTIC UBB provides support for these matters.

Kindly refer to these inboxes on a regular basis for information regarding faculty-organized events and presentations, internship opportunities, scholarship opportunities from companies, announcements from the dean's office and teaching staff, and more.

Through your use of the resources, accounts, and mailboxes, you consent to abide by the subsequent regulation:

  1. Access to resources (servers, accounts, services) is based on a username and a password. The user is directly responsible for all actions taken from his account / based on his credentials. Access credentials (password) will not be disseminated to third parties.
  2. Reactivation of the account (for example in case of forgetting the password, etc.) is done by e-mail to the address ithelp.mcs@ubbcluj.onmicrosoft.com from the address used by the student when registering at the faculty (for the resources provided by the faculty such as e-mail boxes email of the form @scs.ubbcluj.ro), respectively by contacting DTIC (Directorate of Information Technology and Communications of UBB) for the resources offered by the university (such as MS Teams accounts of the form @stud.ubbcluj.ro). During the non-semester period, resetting the password of the accounts offered by the faculty (not the university) can also be done in room 305, FSEGA campus, according to the posted schedule, in the presence of the student based on the current student card and the bulletin / passport.
  3. Violation of system protection systems (computers, servers, routers, other active network components) from the faculty, university network or from the Internet is strictly prohibited. The mere presence in your account/directories of programs that could perform such an activity is considered a fault and is sanctioned according to this regulation and the law.
  4. The faculty computers and network will be used for academic purposes only. Their use for commercial, political or entertainment purposes is strictly prohibited. For reasons of traffic, bandwidth and copyright, the use of peer-to-peer programs that allow the download of files with multimedia content from the Internet (file sharing, torrents, etc.) is prohibited. Decent language will be used in electronic communications.
  5. Any problems regarding the malfunctioning of systems, servers and services will be reported to administrators by email at ithelp.mcs@ubbcluj.onmicrosoft.com.
  6. Failure to comply with this regulation is sanctioned, as the case may be, by: blocking access to accounts and the network, deregistration, police measures, judicial measures.

Dean’s office at the Faculty of the Mathematics and Computer Science