Information for student leavers
This information applies to all students, including undergraduates, taught postgraduates and research postgraduates. This information does not apply to staff, who should refer to:
If you are leaving the University on completion of your course:
- Access to most IT Services facilities (including email and York Print Plus) will be automatically withdrawn approximately 90 days after you finish your studies (the last day of the Summer semester for most undergraduates). You will receive an email to warn you 30 days before these facilities are withdrawn and a reminder each time you log into an IT Services classroom PC.
- Your access to many Library e-resources and the Yorkshare VLE will be withdrawn approximately 60 days after you finish your studies.
- The data in your University Google account and your files in your personal filestore (M: and H: drives) will be saved for one year after expiry, to allow it to be reactivated should you return to the University during this time.
- You will continue to have access to e:Vision for two years after your graduation.
IT Services are not able to extend access to your account. If this is required you should discuss this with your department's People Database Administrator.
This page gives pointers on what to do if you are:
- Leaving the University
- Returning to the University as a staff member
- Returning to the University to begin graduate studies
For information on registering for an alumni email account, please see the Alumni Offers web page. For information on alumni access to the Careers Service, see Alumni: Need careers help?.
Leaving the University
Before you leave the University, we advise you to check the following services and transfer data from your account:
NOTE: When transferring data out of your University account you must ensure that any confidential or restricted University data is NOT included.
For details on what the University classifies as confidential or restricted data see: Information classification & handling
Reminding students to return any IT equipment they have on loan.
Personal filestore (M: and H: drives)
If your personal filestore contains files that you will still need after you leave the University, you should take a copy of these before you go. If there are files that other people will need to access after you leave (eg shared research, society information), make sure that you share copies with them.
Please also see the information on research data below.
Once your IT account expires all email will be rejected, with a notification sent to the sender. Any email forwarding that you’ve set up will cease to operate. We recommend that you make your contacts aware of your new email address before your account expires. You should unsubscribe from any mailing lists, or update your subscription with your new email address.
York for Life offers all graduates and retired staff a University email address for life, hosted by Google, which you can request here:
Exporting emails from your University account
You can copy your emails from your University account to another Google account:
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Depending on the amount of emails you have, it may take up to a week for them all to be copied over - but if your account closes during this time the transfer should still complete successfully.
Only the emails that exist in your account at the time you initiate the transfer will be copied. If you do the transfer more than once only new emails will be copied (so you won’t end up with lots of duplicates).
Alternative method
You can also download your data from Google. Emails will be downloaded as MBOX files which you might be able to import into another email service if your chosen email provider supports it.
IT Services are unable to offer assistance importing MBOX files to other email providers, however Google provide links to instructions in the archive_browser.html file included in the download.
Exporting contacts from your University account
If you want to transfer your contacts you will need to export your contacts from your University account to a CSV file and then import this file into your personal account.
If you want to transfer your contacts to another email provider you will need to follow their instructions on how to do this. Most major email providers offer methods of importing your contacts.
Google Drive
You can copy your Google Drive data from your University account to another Google account:
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Depending on the amount of data you have, it may take up to a week for it all to be copied over. Only the files that exist in your account at the time you initiate the transfer will be copied. If you do the transfer more than once everything will be copied again.
Alternative method
You can also download your data from Google. This allows you to download a copy of all or some of your data from Google Drive.
Any Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Drawings and Forms will be converted to another format of your choice. Please note that you will lose the revision history and (depending on which format you select) you may also lose comments.
OneDrive
Download and move your data from Microsoft OneDrive.
Follow Microsoft’s guide to download your files and folders to your device.
Alternatively, transfer University OneDrive files into your personal OneDrive with the Mover Transfer Wizard. You can also move files from OneDrive to Google Drive.
Research data
If your personal filestore, Google Drive, or OneDrive contains research data that you have created/collected, please ensure that you appraise your research data, and take appropriate action:
- Dispose of research data securely, if the data has fulfilled its purpose.
- Postgraduate researchers are encouraged to archive research data from their PhD research in an appropriate research data archive or repository, if the data underpins a publication or is considered to have long-term research value. You must comply with any funder requirements and meet all your legal and/or ethical obligations in this respect.
Please see the advice from the Open Research team on data management:
- Sharing, preserving and depositing your data
Video conferencing
Zoom
If you have created any Zoom meetings using your University Zoom account, these meetings will not work after you leave. You can check what meetings you have created by going to the Zoom web portal > Sign in > Meetings. If a meeting is running after you leave, someone else (who is remaining at the University) will need to create a new meeting link from their own UoY Zoom account.
Google Meet
If you are listed as an ‘organiser’ of any Google Calendar events with a Google Meet link, you will need to change the owner of these events for the event/link to remain. See this guide on how to change the owner of a calendar event.
York Print Plus
You will need to give some thought to your printing account, and using up any remaining credit. Please note that any unused credit will not be refunded when you leave, or at any other time. If remaining credit creates a surplus, this will be used to improve the York Print Plus service.
Qualtrics - Transferring Survey Projects
Overview
It is important to transfer ownership or download your Qualtrics data before you leave the University. Your account and data will be deleted after one year from leaving the University.
You may transfer surveys from one Qualtrics account to another. This can be helpful if you are preparing to leave the University of York, switching to a new job at the University, or you have a Qualtrics account from another institution or a private account.
Transfer a survey from one UOY account to another UOY account
If you would like to transfer one or more surveys from your UOY Qualtrics account along with any collected results to another UOY account, please reach out to itsupport@york.ac.uk
Specify which survey name(s) you'd like to transfer or indicate you want all surveys transferred. Include the full name and username of the person you want to transfer the surveys to. That person will need to have a Qualtrics account before the surveys can be transferred. If any survey sharing was in place, it is retained after the survey ownership is transferred.
If you are not the survey owner and need surveys transferred from another person's account, the survey owner will need to submit the request; if that account holder is no longer at UOY, your Head of Department or line manager will need to confirm the request.
If only the survey questions need to be transferred, you can share the survey project with the other person and the recipient can create a copy of the shared survey. You can choose to copy one of your surveys into another UOY Qualtrics account. You can also choose to export a survey and its data and provide it to the new owner to import. See the steps in Transfer surveys manually below.
Transfer an external account to UOY
If you are new to UOY and would like to transfer your Qualtrics account to the UOY brand, email us itsupport@york.ac.uk to initiate the request. Please provide the URL of your previous Qualtrics site, its institution's name, and your username or email address that you used on this external Qualtrics site. The Qualtrics Brand Administrator at the other institution will be contacted by the Qualtrics vendor to approve the account transfer request.
This account migration will transfer any surveys that you own in the external account along with any survey results and Qualtrics library files and will delete your account at the other institution. Allow four weeks for the account to be transferred.
Transfer surveys manually
You can export surveys, survey results, and reports yourself to create a backup of your research. You can export a survey as a .qsf file and provide it to another person who can import it into their own Qualtrics account as a way of manually transferring a survey.
If your exported survey has images, email triggers, or custom messages, those will have to be provided to the other person and recreated or uploaded in the recipient's account with follow-up survey editing. To transfer the survey results manually to another account, export the data as a .csv file for the other person to import.
- Follow the steps in the Qualtrics resources below:
If you need assistance, reach out to itsupport@york.ac.uk
Society and other accounts
If you are the owner of any other IT accounts then these will also expire at the same time as your main account. If any of these accounts will still be required by the University after you leave, please email IT Support so that ownership can be transferred to another member of the University.
You can view a list of any other IT accounts that you own on the My IT Account webpage, under Account Information.
For society accounts you should contact the YUSU Helpdesk to transfer the account to someone else.
Returning as staff
If you are coming back as a member of staff, or working for your department over the summer, you will need to contact your Department's People Database Administrator.
Any supplementary accounts you own will be extended when your main account is extended, although you may wish to transfer ownership of them to another user as appropriate.
Returning graduates
For most students returning in the autumn semester, the 90 day period after your course ends will ensure that your account remains available until you return. If you do need to extend your account, please contact your Department's People Database Administrator.
Any supplementary accounts you own will be extended when your main account is extended, although you may wish to transfer ownership of them to another user as appropriate.
In due course, as a returning graduate, you will be notified of your account details and the registration procedure by Registry Services.