Chosen Name Updates - Where and When
If you use the Update Chosen Name link on the Access Boston Portal your name (and email if you chose to update it) will be sent across to City of Boston systems.
Please note: the timing of updates depends on the system and where you work. Please choose your location below for the update schedule.
Chosen Name updates based on where you work:
Departments- Access Boston Portal
- Beacon
- Employee Self Service
- within 5 minutes
- within 15 minutes
- won't update (legal name required in HR systems)
- Network (computer/employee wifi)
- Google (bostonpublicschools.org)
- Aspen/Clever (via Google login)
- update within 5 minutes
- update within 30 minutes
- update within 30 minutes
- Network (computer/Staff WiFi)
- Google (pd.boston.gov)
- Mark 43
- NetMotion (MDT/Mobility)
- BPDNet Gateway
- within 30 minutes (after reboot)
- within 5 minutes
- Mark 43
- NetMotion (MDT/Mobility)
- BPDNet Gateway
- Network (computer/staff wifi)
- Google (boston.gov)
- Telestaff
- within 5 minutes
- within 5 minutes
- Telestaff
- Network (computer/Employee wifi)
- Google (boston.gov)
- Slack
- within 30 minutes (after reboot)
- within 5 minutes
- within 5 minutes
- Network (computer/staff wifi)
- Email (bphc.org)
- within 10 minutes
- not updated - pls contact BPHC IT
- pls contact BPL IT for network/email update
- BPL IT manages email/network separately to Access Boston
