Multiple Microsoft and Google Accounts Accessing
How to sign in to multiple Google and Microsoft accounts.
Traditionally, you can only be signed in to one account per service (such as Google or Microsoft). Modern services and browsers have features to facilitate accessing multiple accounts:
Microsoft supports signing in to multiple accounts and switching between them.
Google supports signing in to multiple accounts and switching between them.
In Gmail, you can also switch to accounts you've been delegated access to.
In Google Calendar, you can be granted access to a calendar such that actions you take on that calendar appear to come from the owner of the shared calendar.
You can use your browser's Profile system to create separate, persistent containers for additional accounts you frequently have credentials for and use.
You can use your browser's Incognito or Private Window to get a temporary "blank slate" for accessing a service as an infrequently-used account you have credentials for.
Microsoft
To sign in to an additional Microsoft account while already signed in to at least one Microsoft account:
Go to https://myaccount.microsoft.com .
Click your user icon in the top right.
Click "Sign in with a different account".
If clicking does not change the page, start the process over in a new tab.
Click "Use another account", or select the cached account you want to log in as.
Authenticate with the additional account's credentials.
Accessing a Microsoft authentication based service like Brightspace should now prompt you to select what account you want to access that service with.
Multiple Account Login
It is possible (but complicated) to log in to multiple Geneseo Google accounts in a browser.
Follow the Microsoft login instructions above with the account you wish to access in Google.
Follow Google's instructions to initiate a sign in with an additional account.
When Google sends you to Microsoft's login system, you should be able to choose a Microsoft account to access Google with.
Google does not send the user information you entered to Microsoft! It only identifies that the user is a valid Geneseo Google user. You will log in to Google as whatever user Microsoft reports back to Google.
Account Delegation
Google has mechanisms for granting access to another Geneseo user's Gmail and Calendar account that they call Account Delegation. We recommend this method because it avoids having to share a password and managing multiple Microsoft account login sessions.
For more info on Account Delegation see our dedicated self-help page: Google Account Delegation
Browser Profiles
Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge let you configure separate, persistent containers for your session information called Browser Profiles. This feature generally assigns a profile to each browser window, allowing you to to be signed in to different accounts in different profile windows. Firefox is more complicated - see the link below for more details.
Private or Incognito Browser Windows
This is the simplest method to temporarily login to an additional Microsoft or Google account. They are inconvenient for regular access because they forget all your logins when they are closed.
iOS specific login information
When adding an account to iOS, you are prompted to sign in to your existing account automatically. You can sign into a second account by clicking the back arrow then selecting sign into another account.
