You can set the Sign-in methods that allow you to choose how to sign in and give you options for password recovery. UVU suggests adding a phone and personal email for password recovery and then trying one passwordless authentication method.

Password must be:

• At least 14 characters long

Upper case characters, numbers and/or special characters are encouraged but not required.

1. Navigate to myUVU
2. When prompted, use "Wolverine" followed by your eight-digit birth date in the format of: MMDDYYYY (no spaces or dashes).

• For example, if your birth date was January 23, 1945, your password would be Wolverine01231945. 

A good password should be easy to remember, yet hard to guess. Passwords that have at least 14 characters in length eliminate about 90% of the “hacked database” passwords as well as the possibility of using a brute force guess attempt. 

When making your new password, try combining several words into a passphrase that has 14 characters. Create a unique passphrase for each website you use (like my.uvu.edu), because reusing the same one for multiple accounts is risky.    Passphrases are simple sentences or word chains based on things that are easy to remember but hard to guess.  examples are “I have owned 5 cars in my life” or using PASSword – “PeachesApplesSugarSalt”.

Bad passwords contain:

• Information related to you that is easy to look up (like phone number, birth date, license plate number, spouse name, pet name).
• Dictionary words or phrases from books, films, poems, songs, famous speeches, etc. (in any language).
• Words with simple methods, such as: using the same word backwards, joining two words, or two words with a punctuation character in between (e.g., Elponitnatsnoc, yenoh, eipragus, yellowtiger, regitwolley, cat?dog, star!search).
• Numbers in an easy sequence.

If you have trouble remembering passwords, try using one of the new passwordless options. For all the websites we use every day, it's essential to use a unique password and never use your UVU password on any other website. One easy way to do this is to use a password manager like LastPass, 1Password, or Dashlane. These password managers generate a random password for each visited website. You only need to remember the master password. Then, the tool will create and keep track of the others.