Resetting a Password

You may have never been provided a password. Please follow these instructions to set your initial password if your account is not setup with with mednet access.

Please email dgsomsao@mednet.ucla.edu, if you need any assistance.

If anything in this overview can be improved upon, please email us with your suggestions.

If your account was setup with Mednet access, then password authentication happens outside of MyCourses.

You will need to update your password with Mednet.

Instructions

  1. Go to the login page
  2. Click on "Forgot your password?"
  3. Input your username (usually your first and last name separated by a space - capitalization does not matter) or email
  4. A password reset token will be sent to the email address on file. You have ten minutes to complete the password reset.

If you have a mednet account, your MyCourses account is currently using a different email and you would like to use your mednet account, please email dgsomsao@mednet.ucla.edu to update your account.

Tip 1

If you receive the following message when trying to reset a password, you have a mednet account and will need to follow the instructions for mednet.

Forgot your password is disabled for your user.

Tip 2

Password reset tokens are only valid for 10 minutes, are only valid for one-time use and requests for new tokens will invalidate previous requests. If you receive the following notification after trying to reset your password, you will need to request a new token.

The username is not valid, or hasn't recently requested a password reset.