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My account is your own page in the console: your password, your notifications, your two-step sign-in and where you are signed in. Everyone who signs in has it.

My account: the password, two-step sign-in with an app and a passkey, and the sessions.

Type your Current password and a New password, then press Change password. The page says how long a password must be here. A password cannot contain your email. Your other sessions end.

People who sign in through a directory change their password there.

What the portal tells you shows on its pages and under the bell at the bottom of the console’s menu, with how many you have not read. Open one to go to its page; Mark all read clears the count.

Turn on Email me my notifications to get each one by email too. It is off until you turn it on.

Under Notifications in this browser, press Turn on to have the portal’s notifications appear on this device, even when no page of the portal is open; the browser asks you to allow them. Clicking one opens its page and marks it read, after you sign in if you are not signed in. Turn off stops them here.

  • Each browser and device is turned on by itself, on the address of the portal you use there. You can have up to 10; the oldest gives way to an eleventh. Your other browsers are listed under Your other browsers, each with Remove.
  • A browser stays on while you stay signed in there. Signing out, or a session that ends, turns it off; signing in again in the same browser turns it back on. Changing your password, and End all other sessions, turn off your other browsers, not this one.
  • A notification shows its title and words as they are in the portal, on lock screens too. One you already read in the portal is not shown, and a browser offline for more than a day misses what came meanwhile.
  • At most 60 notifications an hour reach your browsers, each browser counting; past that, they show only in the portal and your email.
  • A browser that got no notification for 60 days, and where you did not sign in again, is turned off.
  • When the portal sends no notifications to browsers, or this browser cannot show them, or you blocked them in its settings, the card says so. To unblock them, allow notifications for the portal’s address in the browser’s settings. On iPhone and iPad, browsers show the portal’s notifications only for a site added to the Home Screen, so the card says this browser cannot show them.

After your password, the portal can ask for a second step: a code from an app on your phone, or a passkey.

Before any change here, the console asks for your password, or for a code from your app or a recovery code. If you sign in only through your organisation’s account and have no second step yet, it asks for nothing within 10 minutes of signing in.

  • Authenticator app: press Set up, scan the code with the app (or type the key shown under it), then type the code the app shows and press Confirm. Remove takes it away.
  • Passkeys: press Add a passkey, give it a name such as “Laptop”, and confirm on your device. A passkey works on the address you added it on. Remove beside one takes it away.
  • Recovery codes: when you set up your first app or passkey, the console shows ten recovery codes, once. Keep them somewhere safe: each one signs you in once if you lose your phone. New recovery codes replaces them all. The row says how many are left.

If your portal requires a second step, you cannot remove your last one: add another first.

Sessions lists where your account is signed in now: the browser, the address and when it was last used. The one you are using is marked This session.

  • End beside a session signs it out at once.
  • End all other sessions signs out everywhere but here.

A session an administrator opened while impersonating you is listed too, with their name.

Some connectors sign in with each person’s own account on a service. Your connections lists them. Connect asks for your account’s credentials, which are kept sealed and never shown again. Disconnect forgets them.