PID / NID

What are PID and NID?

PID stands for Personal Identification Number

Your PID is the key to accessing online registration, class schedule searches, adding or dropping classes, and a lot of other functions, including viewing your grades and fee schedules. You will be asked to select a password when you first are assigned your PID. You may change your password at any time.

NID stands for Network Identification Number

Your NID is the key to accessing the UCF computer network, the internet, the library and a world of cyber information. This number is also generated for you when you become a student at UCF for the first time. Again, you need to select and register a password which you may change at any time.

DO NOT share your PID or NID with anyone

Why are these numbers necessary and why do you have to use them?

In order to protect your identity against unauthorized use, as well as your UCF records against unauthorized inspection or tampering, using identification numbers, rather than your name or social security number, is a common sense practice and required at UCF. PIDs and NIDs are randomly generated and assigned to you when you first become a student a UCF. These numbers are only issued once and remain the official identity assigned to you and recognized by the UCF computer systems throughout your undergraduate and/or graduate career at UCF.

PIDs and NIDs exist solely to protect your privacy and your identity against unauthorized access or use of your records while you attend UCF. If you are experiencing problems with your PID or your password, please contact the UCF Help Desk at http://helpdesk.ucf.edu, helpdesk@mail.ucf.edu or at 407-823-5117.

More information on guarding against Identity Theft, please refer to the following web site: http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~idtheft/.