Information Technology Checklist for New Students and Parents

For information before coming to Taylor, see our main website here for new student tech guide.

Continue below for help in setting up your account access

Have this information before you begin

  • Student ID Number
  • Taylor University Email Address and Password
  • Parent or Guardian Email Address

How to reset your Taylor University Password – https://passwords.taylor.edu

  1. New password requirements: At least 16 characters in length
  2. Full instructions can be found here: https://helpdesk.taylor.edu/help/article/299990
  3.  Setup a Multi-Factor Authentication method: https://helpdesk.taylor.edu/help/article/289212

myTAYLOR – University Internal Website – https://my.taylor.edu

  1. Login using Taylor University Email Address and Password
  2.  Click on the “View My Dashboard” button

* Note, we are currently experiencing an issue where the website might get stuck in a login loop.  If you get stuck in a redirect loop while trying to access myTAYLOR, the work-around is to hit the stop (X) button on the browser, and then navigate to https://my.taylor.edu from the same browser, and the website should log in correctly.

Helpdesk - https://helpdesk.taylor.edu or follow link in myTAYLOR

Login using your Taylor University email address and password

Brightspace (LMS) – https://taylor.brightspace.com or follow link in myTAYLOR

Login using your Taylor University email address and password

EMAIL – https://outlook.office.com

  1. Login using your Taylor University Email Address and Password
  2. Confirm you have access to Email and Calendar

MYFINAID – https://myfa.taylor.edu or follow link in myTAYLOR
Your User ID and password info is listed on your hard copy award letter and included in email correspondence with you. Your User ID includes numbers only, no letters. If you are unable to locate your User ID or password, please contact the Financial Aid office at 765.998.5358.

TAYLOR UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BOOKSTORE – https://taylor.slingshotedu.com/ or follow link in myTAYLOR

  1. Click LOG IN at top right of page and login using your Taylor University Email Address and Password
  2. Review the Automatic delivery options under the Textbook Preference section
  3. For an overview of the service - Click on FAQ at the top or bottom of page.

TOUCHNET - STUDENT INSTRUCTIONS (Adding an authorized parent or guardian for student billing access)

See this page for instructions on adding an authorized user in Touchnet

*PLEASE NOTE: If the parent / guardian has multiple students, and wishes to see all of the records under one account, the student must create the Authorized User using the same email address used previously by the parent / guardian.

TOUCHNET - PARENT INSTRUCTIONS

  1. At the TouchNet log in page ( https://www.taylor.edu/paymybill ), the authorized user will enter their email address and the temporary password that was sent to them.
  2. After logging in, the authorized user will need to update their profile information and enter a new password.
  3. Click Save to record the changes.

TOWER – Providing parent or guardian proxy access to academic information.

Introduction - Taylor University’s TOWER Proxy provides your parent or guardian on-line access to your academic information. TOWER Proxy gives you, the student, complete control of the process and allows you to authorize anyone with a valid e-mail address on-line access to your academic information.

FERPA NOTICE - You, the student, control who is designated as a proxy. You also choose what information your proxy can access. Designating someone proxy privileges will not be interpreted by Taylor University as providing a FERPA release allowing the university to share additional private student information. If you wish to grant permission to the university to share private information with an individual, such as a parent, a signed FERPA release must be on file in the Registrar’s Office - available online here.

See this page for instructions on adding a parent proxy for Tower.

Parent/guardian instructions

Once your student has completed the above steps you will be able to login to Tower as an Authorized User. 

See here for parent/guardian instructions

You should consider bookmarking this login page: https://services.taylor.edu/StudentSelfService/login/auth

Microsoft Office - https://www.office.com

Taylor University provides each student with access to Microsoft Office 365.

  1. Login using your Taylor University Email Address and Password
  2. Use the drop-down option in the upper right-hand area of the page to Install the Microsoft Office 365 apps.

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