Updating your Personal Information (Local Address and Telephone Number) in the UI's Computer System

It’s very important that the University of Idaho has your current, local address, and phone number.  

Your email address has already been assigned to you.  If you haven’t done so already, you should activate your email.  If you already know you email password, you can access your email through the Web at http://vandalmail.uidaho.edu/. 

Once you’ve made these changes, the university will be able to get in touch with you until you move from your address; at that time, you should remember to update your address. 

University officials will assume that they can reach you through your official UI email account, so you should check this account regularly. (Click here for a more detailed explanation of the university email policy.)

To Log In to the Personal Information Menu:

  1.  Log on to the Internet, and pull up your favorite web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator).

  2.  Enter the following URL into the location bar: http://www.uidaho.edu/registration (This is the same address you add and drop classes at, and is accessible from the Registrar web pages.)

  3.  Click on the “Login” link.

  4.  Enter your User ID and Password. (Again, this is the same ID and Password you use to add and drop classes.)

  5.  Click on the link labeled “Personal Information / Address Menu.”

 To Check and/or Change Your Local Address and Phone

1. From the Personal Information Menu, click on the link labeled “Update Addresses and Phone.”

2. The system will list all the addresses that the university has for you.  If these addresses and phone numbers are correct, you are finished.

3. Click on the link labeled “Current” next to the address that is not current.  This will put you in a form that you can fill in with the correct information.  You can click the box marked “unlisted” if you do not want your telephone number to be listed in the UI directory.  If you do not want your address to be listed, fill out a confidentiality form at the Registrar’s office. Note: When entering phone numbers, you need to enter seven-digit phone number without any of the usual hyphens. Just enter a string of seven digits.

4. Click the “Submit” button.

To Activate Your Email (change the password, etc.):

1.  Go to http://support.uidaho.edu.  Log in here using your ID Number or email address (you don’t need to include the “@uidaho.edu” part); you will also need to use either your PIN that you use to log on to http://www.uidaho.edu/registration or your email password.  You only have to have remembered one of these things correctly.
2. From the Welcome screen, you can perform any of the tasks listed on the left side:  change your email password(s), change your PIN, purchase more than the 500 print pages you at the start of each semester for use in the student labs, or move your Hotmail mail to VandalMail.
3. You can then access your email through the Web at http://vandalmail.uidaho.edu/ or you can have it copied into your computer using a program such as Microsoft Outlook or Eudora.

Last updated on Thursday, 01 February 2007.