Your email
Students should check their University email account at least once per day. Email is the primary communications tool for tutors, academic departments, colleges and central services to contact their students.
Nexus email
You will have been registered automatically for an Oxford Nexus account as soon as your University card was created. To access your account:
- ensure you have activated your Oxford username
- use your Oxford username and password to log in to the IT Services Self-Registration service and find your email address
- you can then access your account via the Student Gateway or by visiting: https://nexus.ox.ac.uk
- your Nexus account has a 2 GB quota. Please avoid filling up your quota, you may find that you cannot send or receive any email if this happens.
Personalising your email account
- You can configure your secure email clients (Outlook, MacMail, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc.) to work with Oxford Nexus.
- You can change your account settings, such as the default address, at Nexus Account Settings.
- You can also set your email to be forwarded to another system (Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, etc) via the self-registration pages.
Your Nexus calendar
Oxford Nexus also provides an online calendar. You can give other people access to your calendar, and schedule meetings, share contacts, tasks, files and folders with your colleagues.
Junk mail and phishing
As with any email account, some of the messages you receive will be unwanted and unsolicited email often referred to as 'Junk E-mail' or 'spam'. Always delete junk email - never reply.
Spam filters are available on Nexus to divert possible spam to a 'Junk E-mail' folder. You are able to set your spam filter to Off, Low, Medium or High: the higher you set it, the greater number of email messages will be tagged as spam.
Phishing
‘Phishing’ is the name given to emails and websites which ask you to reveal personal and confidential information about yourself. You should never reveal usernames or passwords via email or respond to emails you do not trust.
To avoid being caught out by phishers:
- never share your passwords via email
- never respond to an email you do not trust. If you are unsure google the company website and use the contact details online to ask if they need to talk to you
- if sharing confidential information online, check that the URL begins with https:// in the URL and the padlock icon in your web browser. If these aren't present, criminals may be able to read the information you send over the internet. However, the mere presence of a padlock does not guarantee that your information will be secure.