External Access From Outside College

The academic network will be down for essential maintenance and upgrades from Monday 26th July. This includes Macs.

This will affect external access to some user data from outside the college, but only for brief periods whilst servers are upgraded. We expect to be fully operational by 9th August, however, not all classrooms will be immediately available due to a full rebuild of all PCs. If you have any summer classes running please let me know so we can work with you to ensure the rooms you have booked are available on time.

Note: This will not affect this web site.

Ben Read

Email... Anywhere!

To access your College email, click the link below:
http://webmail.southdowns.ac.uk

You will be presented with a security alert box. Please click [Yes] to continue. Then login as you normally do on the network, with your account username and password.

Students and staff: Log in as sdc\username (replacing 'username' with your network username).

For users of the Administration (or staff) network: You will need to login as adm\username.

After a few moments the web mail client will load. You can send and receive e-mail from here. Remember that College web mail has the same terms and conditions as normal College e-mail.

External Access to College Networks and Resources

New users should read this first:

The College Intranet contains help, information, handouts and notes for your courses and the College itself. To access the Intranet from outside the College Networks, click the link below and log in.

The College has two networks, and as a College Member (staff or student), you will belong to one of them. To log in to the Intranet you will use your normal network user ID and password.

  • If you are an academic network user, either Student (for example with the user ID 30012345) OR Teaching Staff (for example with the user ID fsmith), you should log in with the user ID: sdc\30012345 OR sdc\fsmith and your normal password.
  • If you are an admin network user, (for example with the user ID fsmith) you should login with the user ID: adm\fsmith and your normal password.

Some links will not work from outside the College without further authentication. For example Infotrac will require Athens authentication. Please contact the LRC for further advice.

You can now to use the internet to access your MyWork folders and learning resources on the college network from home or another remote location, or a laptop that you wish to use both at home and at College.

To access your folders just log on using your current college network username and password. Your web browser will then present you with a web page which allows you to access your college files and documents.