Checklist for the start of your studies
Before the first day of your education, you need to take some important steps.
1.Your offer
You have been admitted. If you want to keep your place (seat), you do not have to reply to your offer.
If you do not want to keep your place you should decline your offer by logging in to 'My pages' on universityadmissions.se, and follow the instructions. You should click "I wish to decline this offer" next to the course or programme you want to decline.
If you see "Reserve" next to your course or programme in the Notification of selection results, this means that you've been placed on a waiting list for that course/programme.
2.Activate your user account and MFA
As a new student, you need to activate your user account (your UMU-id) approximately two weeks prior to the start of the semester.
With your user account you can:
- register for courses
- access the internet in computer labs and the university's wireless network
- submit assignments and verify your study results
- access your student e-mail
If you are a new student, you will automatically receive a user account when you are admitted, but you will need to activate it for it to function properly. You will not be able to activate it until approximately two weeks prior to the start of the semester.
Exchange student or tuition fee paying student
If you are an exchange student or tuition fee paying student, you will receive an email with instructions on how to activate your account.
Install MFA for a more secure login
To increase security and reduce the risk of unauthorised access to your information or account, students must enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to log in to various systems, such as Canvas and the Student Web.
I want to activate my user account and install MFA
Help! It´s not working
If you are having problems activating your account or logging in, please contact our Servicedesk. You will find answers to common questions, and can submit enquiries.
3.Course registration
To be registered for this course, attendance at the first lecture is mandatory.
The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 3 November at 10:15 in room SAM.A.359 . Registration is required in order to participate in the course and to have your results officially recorded.
4.Course start
2026-11-03
10:15
The schedule is preliminary until four weeks before the course starts
About the course
Course information
The course includes both lectures and seminars. In seminars, the students meet in groups and together with a teacher discuss a specific topic. Much of the learning in the course will take place in preparing for each seminar. Specific instructions regarding the topic, questions and materials for each seminar will be posted on the learning platform.
Course participation
Three weeks after the course starts, we are required by the University to check which students are still active on the course. This check will take place in the learning platform Canvas as a quiz. More information about this will be provided in Canvas when the time comes. For those who do not respond to this quiz or who respond that they are not active in the course, a withdrawal will be recorded for the course.
If you realize during the course that you do not want to continue, notify the course coordinator and record a withdrawal in Ladok, or contact your course administrator who can assist you.
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