Staff

Practical information about the ULCN account for staff.

Who is given an ULCN account?

Every member of staff with an appointment at the University has the right to an ULCN account. Following registration, you will receive by letter your account details at the address where you are registered. You should apply for your account details yourself if you have not received this letter.

What can I do with the ULCN account?

  • Work stations
    Access to your own work station (PC) and the work stations in the faculties, in Plexus student centre and the University Library.
     
  • Leiden University Wireless Access (LUWA)
    LUWA provides wireless access to internet with your own laptop.
     
  • uMail
    Access to your uMailbox, including mail forwarding to an alternative mail address.
     
  • uSis
    Access to the Student Information System.
     
  • uPrefs
    Here you can change your ULCN password and create extra settings for Blackboard.
     
  • Blackboard
    Access to the digital teaching environment.
     
  • UB Catalogue
    Searching for books and journals (including electronic journals) in the libraries of University Leiden Libraries.
     
  • Digital Library
    Access to catalogues, bibliographic files, full-text sources and electronic journals of University Leiden Libraries.
     
  • SAP Self Service
    Requesting and checking leave days.
     
  • eStemmen
    Voting for staff members of faculty boards and personnel committees.
     
  • Surfspot
    Ordering software via a campus licence.
     
  • Weblog
    Maintaining a blog, including an academic blog.

Work station

Following registration, almost every staff member is assigned his or her own work station. Most of these are so-called VUW work stations. The faculties of Archaeology, Medicine (LUMC), Social and Behavioural Sciences, and Science have their own work station environment with specific applications. Your log-in name and your password at your work station is the same as your ULCN account.

Almost all staff members have their own work mailbox (generally Microsoft Outlook) at their faculty or department (for example: jj.van.leiden@law.leidenuniv.nl). Members of staff also have a ULCN uMailbox (for example,  j.j.de.groot@umail.leidenuniv.nl). You can use your uMailbox separately or forward your uMail to your work mailbox.

Contact details

Personnel administration
Go to the list with contact details for personnel departments

Local helpdesks at the faculties

Humanities Balie Lipsius (Dutch) and Service Desk WSD (Dutch)
Medicine & LUMC Helpdesk Automatisering (Dutch)
Law Balie KOG (Dutch), Steenschuur 25
Social and Behavioural Sciences Balie Pieter de la Court (Dutch), Wassenaarseweg 52, first floor
Science Balie Gorlaeus (Dutch), Einsteinweg 55 room L103 and Helpdesks Science (Dutch)

General helpdesks
University Leiden Libraries Locations Libraries
Campus Den Haag Service Desk
Central Helpdesk ISSC Helpdesk ISSC (Dutch)
Other departments/services Homepage Leiden University

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Last Modified: 04-11-2011