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Step 1: Workday Temporary Username and Password during Pre-Employee Phase

During the pre-employee phase(before your hire date) of the Lynn University hiring process, you would have received two separate automated emails from the Workday system to your personal email address that you provided to Employee Services. 

  • The first email would have contained:
  • The second email would have contained:
    • Your temporary password
  1. After clicking on the Workday website link, there will be two options on the screen to log in.  To log into Workday before your official hire date use the Native Workday Login button on the home page.
  2. Upon the first login, you would have been prompted to set a few challenge response questions
  • These Workday challenge questions are temporary and are only used in the event that you forget your password during the pre-employment phase of the hiring process.
  • Do not confuse these with your account setup password recovery questions that you set in Step 2: Complete Lynn account steps

You'll use the username and password combination and the Native Workday Login button on the home page to log into Workday and upload all the documents necessary for Employee Services to complete the hiring process.

VERY IMPORTANT ** You will continue to use this username and password combination and Native Workday Login option to login into Workday  until 12:00 am on your hire datetemporary

Step 2: Complete Lynn account steps

Overview

As you continue through the hiring process and before your actual hire date you will receive further email communications on how to activate your Lynn account.  Activating your Lynn account means the following:

  1. Set the following password recovery options:  
    • Set 3 security password recovery questions
    • Set/Confirm your personal email address
    • Set/Confirm your mobile number 
  2. Set your passwordEnable your account

Once you have completed the steps above your Lynn account is enabled and you will be able to use it to log in to Lynn resources with one caveat.  Read below. 

VERY IMPORTANT ** Once you complete the steps below there is one caveat.  You will not be able to use the new username and password to log in to Workday until your hire date, but you can use it to log in to other resources like email, Get Mobile, Zoom etc.

Complete the steps below to activate your Lynn account

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      1. At this point, you have successfully activated your network account and finished the account setup process. Please remember both your username and your Lynn Email Address, as these are what you will use to access the myLynn portal and other online resources. If you click ‘OK’ you will be taken back to the home page for account setup. You can close this browser window.

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3: Register three separate methods for multi-factor authentication 

Overview

Now that you have completed Step 1: Complete Lynn account steps,  there is one more step that you need to do before you can access your email.  In an effort to protect your email and the university's data we have implemented multi-factor authentication and require it for all employees. Multi-factor authentication is an extra layer of security designed to ensure that you're the only person who can access your account, even if someone else knows your password.

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4: Important information regarding accessing the resources below


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There is automation in place that requires at least 24 hours to pass between the time your hiring manager receives your account setup email from Employee Services and you are authorized to access the Lynn University resources listed below.

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  • You will use the Lynn Account option on the Workday Login Page https://wd5.myworkday.com/lynn/login.htmld
  • You will use your Lynn email address as the username. i.e.  jdoe@lynn.edu
  • You will use the password that you set in Step 1: Complete Lynn account steps 


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5: Helpful information for the most common resources

Workday Training

Please reference this link for all Workday training resources:  Workday Documentation

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Campus Resources and Contacts

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