As a student, you determine who gets to have access to your enrollment and financial information. You can set them up to see your financial information (such as your tuition bills) and make payments. You can also give them access to see non-billing information (such as enrollment, schedule, and checklists) or to receive that information from University staff, such as over the phone. You can give the same person access to both of these types of information, or you can give the access to different people. You follow separate steps to set up each person’s access.
Important: For the safety of your information, if you want someone else to be able to see your information in ConnectCarolina, it’s important to give them their own access instead of sharing your Onyen and password or your PIN with them.
FYI, the person who has access to your tuition bills and other financial information is called an “authorized user”, and the person who has access to see non-billing information such as grades is called a “proxy user.” You’ll see these names in the system, and when the person you give access to receives email notices, that’s what they’ll be called in the notice.
Open the tabs below to see the steps to take to grant someone else access to your information.
If someone other than you pays your bills, you need to set him or her up as authorized user so that he or she can access Student Financials – Bill Pay in ConnectCarolina. As a student, you need to enroll in 2-Step Verification (Duo) to see financial (billing) information, but authorized users don’t need to use 2-Step Verification (Duo).
Before you begin these steps, be sure that your pop-up blocker is turned off or disabled and have your phone with you because you’ll need to verify who you are with 2-Step Verification (Duo).
1. Log in to connectcarolina.unc.edu, and from the Student Home page, click the Manage/Pay Student Account link.
Result: You will see a screen with information about securing your financial information with 2-Step Verification (Duo) so that the system knows that it’s really you. You’ll need your mobile phone with you before you proceed.
2. Click the Verify with 2-Step link.
3. Choose how you want to verify, whether it is by push, phone call or passcode.
Result: Once you verified your account, you will see the following screen.
4. Click the Continue to Pay Bills – Manage Student Accounts button.
Result: The UNC-Chapel Hill Student Account site opens in a new window.
TIP: If, after clicking the Continue to Pay Bills – Manage Student Accounts button, you don’t move to the next screen, check to make sure that your Pop-Up Blockers are disabled.
5. Click the Authorized Users button. From this page, you can give others (parents, employers, etc.) the ability to access your account information.
6. Enter the email address of the person you are giving access to and choose Yes for the information you want to share.
7. Click the Continue button.
8. On the Agreement to Add Authorized User screen, Check the I Agree box and click the Continue button.
Result: The person you’ve made an authorized user receives two emails:
Remember: Your authorized user is not required to use 2-Step Verification (Duo).
Delete an Authorized User
Once you delete an authorized user, that person can no longer may payments to your accounts in this system. All of that person’s upcoming or unapplied scheduled or automatic payments will be canceled. To delete that person as an authorized user:
RESULT: You will see a message confirming that you want to delete that person as an authorized user.
3. Click OK.
When you give someone access to see your non-billing information in ConnectCarolina, you set them up as a “proxy” user. There are four total steps that you, and the person you are giving access to, need to complete. As the student, you complete Steps I and III. Then, the person you’re giving access to completes Steps II and IV. At a high level, it looks like this:
Follow the process below to give someone access to see your non-billing information in ConnectCarolina.
Before you begin these steps, be sure that your pop-up blocker is turned off or disabled.
Note: If the person you are giving access to already has an Onyen or Guest ID, skip steps I and II and go straight to Step III (Student: Grants access to proxy)
Result: Once the completed Proxy invitation form is submitted:
This information in this section is for the person (parent, guardian etc.) that the student wants to share information with.
1. You will receive an email with the subject line: Invitation to Register as a Proxy on Behalf of [Student Name]
2. Click the link in the email to register as a Proxy and create a Guest ID.
![email with the subject line: Invitation to Register as a Proxy on Behalf of [Student Name]](https://ccinfo.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/219/2019/12/proxy-invite.png)
3. Enter and confirm your (proxy) Email Address and click the Next button.
4. Complete the Personal Information fields and click the Next button.
5. Complete the Contact Information fields and click the Next button.
GuestID Registration confirmation screen
Proxy GuestID Registration email
4. Click the OK button.
5. Complete the Share My Access portion of page by checking the boxes for the type of access that you are granting to the Proxy.
6. Click the Save All Changes button.
This information in this section is for the person (parent, guardian etc.) that the student is giving access to.
1. After you receive an email confirming access to the student’s account, log in to connectcarolina.unc.edu and click the Student Data tile.
If you, the proxy, have access to information for a single student, you’re taken directly to a page with links to the various services (such as view schedule and enrollment) that you are now authorized to access. (The list varies depending on the options the student selected.) Click the link for the information you want to see.
If you have access to the information for multiple students, you will go to Proxy Select page which contains a list of students who granted access to you. Click the name of the student’s whose information you want to see.
As a student, you can set up a PIN for anyone you want the University to share your student information with, such as your parents or guardians. When you set up the PIN you’ll also be able to choose what type of information you want the other person to be able to get, such as your addresses, your GPA for the semester, and the balance on your One Card account.
Once someone else has a PIN that you’ve set up, University staff can share information about:
Keep In Mind:
Follow these steps to set up the PIN and decide what information University staff can share with that person.
2. From the Share My Student Information page click the Authorize University Offices to Communicate with Individuals
Result: If you previously exercised your rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), you need to acknowledge this exception to your invoked FERPA status. This screen will not appear again.
3. Check the Authorize Communication box and click the Next button.
4. On the Authorize Communication page, enter the First Name and Last Name of the person you want the University to share information with.
5. Enter that person’s email address.
6. Create a 4 digit PIN for that person using the following guidelines:
Remember to give the PIN to the person you’re giving access to and notify them they need their PIN when they’re communicating with University Offices.
7. Check the boxes for information you want University staff to share with the individual (Proxy).
8. Check the Consent to the creation of the Proxy Account box.
9. Click the Save All Changes button.
Result: The information is immediately available to the University Offices.
The Proxy History section keeps track of any changes you make to your proxies or their access.
If you leave the page and come back later to make changes, you’ll need to check both the consent checkbox and the Save All Changes button again. You can update the email address, PIN and the information you want to share with an individual any time.
IF you want to set up a PIN for another person, click the Add a Proxy Account button at the bottom of the page and repeat the steps above. Each person will have a separate page.
If you want to take away access from someone, use the Delete Proxy Account button at the bottom of that person’s page. As soon as you delete a proxy account, that person will no longer have a PIN to access your information and University Offices won’t share information with that person. The person will remain in your Proxy History section but will show as deleted.
