Your initial password is your student number. You must change this during your first login session. You will not be able to submit work electronically until your password has changed.
During terms when the owner is not taking a course the account will be suspended. Your password is not changed or reset, nor are files deleted when the account is suspended, you just do not have access to the system.
More information is available at http://www.cdf.toronto.edu/welcome/
Usernames are of the form is 'cNllllll' where:
c2doejoh If there was a second
John Doe, his username would be c2doejoi, the next one
c2doejoj and so on. In January 2003 Jane Doe will get
c3doejan.