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Every Â鶹ÊÓƵ student, faculty, or staff member receives a unique user name that provides access to Â鶹ÊÓƵ's various online resources. If you are new to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ community, you will need to follow the appropriate instructions below to create your user name to receive access to Â鶹ÊÓƵ's general systems:

• Full Time Staff - All full time staff will have their user accounts pre-created by the Office of Information Technology, provided their hiring department submits the hiring action to HR with enough advanced notice. This is part of the Online On Time IT OnBoarding initiative. Full time staff members, who are not hired with enough advanced notice, can follow the .
• - When a faculty or part time staff member completes the self-service account creation application, they are assigned a user name with access to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ network, the web portal, email, and Canvas, Â鶹ÊÓƵ's learning management system.
• - When a student completes the self-service account creation application, they are assigned a user name with access to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ network, the myÂ鶹ÊÓƵ.american.edu web portal, an Outlook email inbox, and Canvas, Â鶹ÊÓƵ's learning management system.
• - visitors to Â鶹ÊÓƵ needing wireless Internet access can connect to the Â鶹ÊÓƵGuest-byRCN guest wireless network. Visitor accounts are also available at the University Library, for use on the Library public computers.