Sort your student account
Confirm your enrolment, set your password, and get your student account set up before you start your studies so you can access services and tools.
Confirm your enrolment
Before the start of your first trimester, make sure that you've completed the enrolment process by accepting your Enrolment Agreement.
You’ll need to make sure that you don’t have any outstanding conditions for your admission or enrolment in order to become fully enrolled.
Getting your username
Within 24 hours of becoming fully enrolled we’ll send you an email with your student username and email address. Once you have that email follow our step-by-step instructions to set a password.
You’ll use your student username or student email address to access student IT services, including:
- Pūaha, our portal for student admin
- Nuku, the online learning environment for all your courses
- computers and printers on campus.
Using your student email
You’ll use the Outlook app to read email that’s been sent to your student ('my vuw') address. Outlook is one of Microsoft's Office 365 apps, for which you now have a student account.
Some of the University's systems are set up to send messages to your student email address—so it’s important to check your account regularly. Alternatively, you can set up your student email account to forward messages to a personal email address.
Step-by-step instructions for forwarding your email
Updating your contact information
You can see the contact information that the University has for you in the 'My profile' section of Pūaha. It’s a good idea to keep all your contact information (physical address, phone number, and personal email address) up to date so you don't miss out on important information.