To access My Shepherd, you will need to use your Shepherd University student email and password. You should have received an email with instructions about setting up your account.
Here is page which explains the account process for new students.
If you did not receive instructions, please click the link below to email the IT Services Desk.
Notes about changing your password.
This change will take up to 15 minutes to synchronize with all of our systems. If you change your password in MyShepherd and then immediately try to use the new password on our systems, it probably will not work on some or all systems. Please give the systems time to synchronize the new password.
Rules for your new password:
At least 12 characters but no more than 15 characters long
Must contain at least one of each of the following: an upper case letter; a lower case letter; a number; and a special character (!, $, #, @ are examples).
There are certain special characters which it cannot contain, which are shown on the password change screen.
To protect your privacy, click on EXIT in the upper right corner and close your browser when you have finished viewing.
Your username and password allow you to access:
- My Shepherd
- Campus owned computers
- Internet access in residence halls
- Wireless network
- Personal network disk space
- Shared network disk space
- Learning Management System – Brightspace
- The Good Living Portal – Which you may access from here
For more information, visit ID, PIN, Username and Password FAQ’s.