This privilege to choose your account username is only extended to users from School of Computing proper. For other users, your SoC Account username will be identical to your NUS-ID.

If you are allowed to choose your own username, you may either:

• use your NUS-ID; or
• form a username from your name
  • You may truncate characters from words forming your name;
  • You may use the words in any combination (or not at all);
  • You may use ' - ' between each subword but you may not start or end with them.
  • You may use numbers between or in place of each character.
  • the username must be between 5-8 characters in length.
  • the username must not be similar to an NUS-ID

The username can only consist of lowercase letters of the alphabet (a-z), numbers and the delimiter '-' . Whitespaces and other characters are not allowed.

E.g. if your name is “Tan Ah Mow”,
The following user names are okay:

• tanahmow
• tan8888
• tanmow99

The following user names are _not_ okay:

• tanameow
  - * Meow is not part of your name *
• alextan
  - * Alex may be your christian name but we do not know about it *
• tanahkow88
  - * Too long *
• tak
  - * Too short *
• u1999999
  - * resembles an NUS-ID *

E.g. if your name is “Tang AhMow”,
The following user names are okay:

• tanga
• tangahm
• tang8888

The following user names are _not_ okay:

• tangam
• amtang
  • * AhMow is processed as a single word, we do not know that it's 2 syllables *