User Credentials for Piedmont University Systems
Single Sign On (SSO)
- IT Services (ITS) assigns new students and personnel an email address and a temporary password.
- ITS sends this information to new people as part of student orientation or employee onboarding activities, with directions about how to logon to University services for the first time.
- When new students and personnel logon for the first time, the system requires them to choose a new permanent password.
- When you enter your University email address/username and your password into these systems, a central credentials server is checked for a match. This service is call the Piedmont University Single Sign-On service or Piedmont SSO.
- Your Piedmont SSO credentials are used with almost all commonly used systems. Your username looks like this: jjones0101@lions.piedmont.edu (student) or jjones@piedmont.edu (faculty, staff, administration). A student's username incorporates the person's 4-digit birthday.
- Some systems will require two-factor authentication.
If you lose your temporary, one-time password, or if you forget your permanent password, follow the instructions on this Library FAQ to reset your password.
But there are a few systems that are exceptions to using your SSO credentials. They are described in the second table below.
