Your username is what students, faculty and staff use to log into most Community College of Vermont and Vermont State Colleges applications. They are unique to each person and look similar to: abc00123

Detailed explanation of the username:

Length: 8 characters

• The first three digits will be your initials.  If you do not have a middle name, an X will be inserted in its place.
• The next two digits are zeros
• The next three digits are a randomly generated number

For example, aeh00423 – Where aeh are my initials, followed by two zeros, followed by the randomly generated number of 423

Another example: Mary Taylor (no middle name)  would generate as: mxt00893

FAQs

I don’t know my username. Where can I find it? 

Please see our Retrieve Username – CCV IT Support support page.

Have usernames always been this way? 

No. This format became effective Monday, October 4th. All new students, faculty and staff on or after this date will be assigned a username in this format.

Why are we making this change?

We are making this change to remove birthdates from the ID format.

Will this affect me?

This will not affect any existing users.  This only applies to new usernames for students, faculty and staff.