UIT provides computer accounts to UH faculty, staff, and students enrolled in classes to support instructional, research, and administrative activities. Accounts include:  

• Electronic Mail (Email) Accounts
  Exchange: Email server used by staff and faculty
• CougarNet Accounts
  CougarNet: used by student, staff and faculty
• Retired Faculty Accounts
  Retired faculty will automatically retain their Cougarnet and Email accounts. If not used within the year, it will be automatically closed. To reopen an account, faculty will need to contact their department business office.
• Instructional Accounts 
  ECC_Unix: For Engineering students
  Canvas: Web-based course tool
• Web Server Accounts
  www.uh.edu: UH central web server
• Aministrative Business Systems Accounts
  myUH (PeopleSoft): administrative uses

Faculty and staff may request sponsored accounts for persons not normally granted access to university computing account resources.
To request a sponsored account, call the UIT Support Center at 713-743-1411. Consultants will assist in determining the appropriate accounts for individual computing needs and creating the accounts.

I want to...

• Reset My Password
• Get an Email Account
• Get a CougarNet Account
• Update My Student Email Address in MyUH
• Update My Faculty/Staff Email Address in MyUH

Account Names

Account Termination and Space Management