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• Manage your OIT Account(s): Reset your OIT Account password and manage other account details.
• Sign up for UMass Amherst Alerts: Use SPIRE to subscribe to UMass Amherst Alerts text messages, a campus service that provides emergency notifications directly to subscribers’ cell phones.
• Wireless access for guests: Use a simple online form in SPIRE to create temporary accounts for visitors who need to access the wireless network on campus.

• Graduate Admissions Documents: Learn how to view online graduate admissions documents with SPIRE and WebNow.
• Update your UMass directory information: Update your directory information for PeopleFinder and the UMass print directory.
• Create a Course OIT Account: Need a separate blog, UDrive or Web space for a class that you are teaching? Use the OIT Accounts area in SPIRE to create a Course OIT Account.
• Dowload your class and final exam schedules: Download your schedule from SPIRE, then import it into your preferred calendaring tool (e.g., Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook).
• Request a SPARK course: Request SPARK courses, sign up for SPIRE Grade Upload, and check the status of your SPARK course requests.
• Use Photo Rosters: Photo Rosters for UMass Amherst classes are available to all active instructors who earn their Security Certificate.
• Create class email lists: Create Mailman email lists for the classes you are teaching each term (including summer and winter sessions).

• Google Apps for Undergraduates: Undergraduate students: Learn about delivering your UMass Amherst email to Gmail and using other Google Apps.
• Dowload your class and final exam schedules: Download your schedule from SPIRE, then import it into your preferred calendaring tool (e.g., Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook).
• Mass PIRG & Child Care Fee Waiver: Remove the Mass Pirg and/or Child Care fees from your University bill.
• FERPA Privacy Waiver: Make your financial and housing information available to a few selected people.
• Update your UMass contact information: Update your phone numbers, addresses and other contact information.
• Add a preferred (alternate) first name: Learn how to specify a preferred first name that will appear on class rosters and in SPARK.

• View Class Rosters: Staff with SPIRE B level access, learn more about using SPIRE to view your department’s class rosters.
• Graduate Admissions Documents: Learn how to view online graduate admissions documents with SPIRE and WebNow.
• Update your UMass directory information: Update your directory information for PeopleFinder and the UMass print directory.