Checklist for the start of your studies
Before the first day of your education, you need to take some important steps.
1.Reply to your offer
If you have been admitted to a course or programme, or been placed on a waiting list, you must reply to your first admissions notification to keep your place. If you don't wish to keep your place, you should decline your offer. In doing so, you free up your place to someone who is on the waiting list. You reply to your offer by logging in to your account at Universityadmissions.se by 20 july 2026.
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
The course starts off with registration and introduction. You need to be registered on the course in the study documentation system in order to be able to follow the course and to get your results registered during the course. If you are unable to attend during the registration and introduction, you need to contact the study administrator Angelica Johansson in advance, or else you risk losing your place (seat) at the course/programme.
It’s not possible to self-register online for this course.
In order to get registered you need to attend the mandatory roll call at 08:30 am December 14, in lecture room Alicante.
4.Course start
2026-12-14
08:30
The schedule is preliminary until four weeks before the course starts
Course structure
The course will start on Monday 14th of December 2026. Lectures will be given from Monday to Friday (December 14-18). The course will be held in lecture room Alicante at Epidemiology and Global Health 3rd floor. See mazemap link: https://link.mazemap.com/OVouP3cN
Course Literature
Bartley, Mel, Health inequality: an introduction to concepts, theories and methods. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016
Learning platform
In this course, we use the learning platform Canvas. There you will find for example course schedule, instructions for exercises during the course and messages from the teachers. In order to get access to the learning platform, you sign in using your Umu-id. You will get access to the Canvas site (Social Epidemiology - Theory and Methods) after the first day of the course. If you are not able to attend on the first day it's important that you let us know.
Registration and Umu-id
It’s not possible to self-register online for this course.
In order to get registered you need to attend the mandatory roll call at 08:30 am December 14.
In order to access the central IT systems at Umeå University, you need a user account, an Umu-id. You will receive a user account after you have been admitted to studies at Umeå University, and you will need to activate it before you can use it to sign in. https://www.umu.se/en/student/help-and-support/it-services/umu-id/
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