mylogin.lausd.net Activate Your LAUSD Email Account

The first step to activate Your LAUSD Email Account is to go to our single sign-on landing page at http://MyLogin.lausd.net. You can use this page to activate a single sign-on account, update information about yourself in the District’s global online directory, or change your account password.

Activating Your LAUSD Email Account

1. The first step is to go to our single sign-on landing page at http://MyLogin.lausd.net. You can use this page to activate a single sign-on account, update information about yourself in the District’s global online directory, or change your account password.

2. Click on Activate your LAUSD account.

3. You will see the terms of the District’s Acceptable Use Policy, to which every employee must agree before using the District’s computing environment. Select the Agree option to indicate that you agree to the terms of the policy.

4. Indicate whether you are a regular LAUSD employee or if you are a non-employee. Contractors or employees at independent charter schools should select non-employee. The next steps differ slightly depending on whether you are an employee or a non-employee.

Employees: follow these steps:

a) Enter your eight-digit employee number (usually with two zeroes at the front, e.g., 00723671), your date of birth following the format MM/DD/YYYY, and the last four digits of your social security number. Press Next.

b) You will see a screen showing you the email address you have on file. Now, you can select a password. Be sure to follow the password guidelines listed below. Enter your password of choice where it say New Password, enter it again where it says Confirm Password, and press Next.

c) You will see a screen that says your account was set up successfully. if you do not see this screen and are met with any error messages, try repeating the steps above paying careful attention to the password guidelines.

For assistance with this process, contact the IT HelpDesk

Non-employees follow these steps:

1) Enter your LAUSD ID number (your contractor number or number provided to you when you requested an LAUSD account), your date of birth following the format MM/DD/YYYY, and the last four digits of your social security number. Press Next.

2) You will see a screen showing you the email address you have on file. Now, you can select a password. Be sure to follow the password guidelines listed below. Enter your password of choice where it say New Password, and enter it again where it says Confirm Password.

3) Next, select a hint question and an answer. This will help you reset a lost password using our automated online tools. Press Next.

4) You will see a screen that looks like the one above indicating that your account was set up successfully. if you do not see this screen and are met with any error messages, try repeating the steps above paying careful attention to the password guidelines.

For assistance with this process, contact the IT HelpDesk

Password Guidelines

• Your password must be between 8 and 20 characters long.

• Your password cannot be the same as your user ID.

• Your password must contain at least one alphabetic and at least one numeric character.

• Your password cannot cntain three repeated characters in a row (e.g., “password1111” would be invalid).

• Passwords with common letter combinations (e.g., “abcde” or “12345”) or dictionary words longer than six characters (e.g., “kitchen”) won’t be accepted.

Accessing My Email on Outlook

Accessing your LAUSD Exchange email account from within Outlook is a simple process. How to do this depends on what version of Outlook you’re using. Below are steps to set up your account using Outlook 2007 on a Windows 7 platform:

1) Open Outlook.

2) Click on the Tools menu.

3) Select Account Settings.

4) On the Email tab, click on New… to add an account.

5) Type your name as you would like it to appear on email messages you send to people, then type your LAUSD email address in full, your account password and then type your password again to verify.

6) Assuming all information is correct, Outlook will return a screen that says Congratulations! Your e-mail account is successfully configured to use Microsoft Exchange.

7) Select Finish to complete the process. You will notice Outlook start to download data from your account. Depending on how many email messages, calendar, and address book items you have on the Exchange server, it may take a while to synchronize everything.

It’s important to note that the IT division is in the process of migrating email accounts to newer email servers as a cost savings measure and in preparation to move employee email accounts to a cloud-based system. Please note that older versions of Microsoft email programs such as Entourage 2004 and 2008 will not work correctly once this happens. If you are a Mac user, and your account is moved, there are a couple of options available to you:

Download the latest version of Microsoft Office for Mac, which includes Outlook 2011 for Mac. Your LAUSD account will work with Outlook 2011 once it’s been moved to a new server. The District has an enterprise license agreement with Microsoft that allows schools and offices to purchase Office upgrades for low prices for the home or workplace.

Mac users can continue to view their LAUSD email using the web mail tool (http://mail.lausd.net) before and after this change with no problem.