Uni-ID and central services
Heidelberg University's central user ID for students, employees and university members is the ‘Uni-ID’. This is assigned by the Heidelberg University Computing Centre (URZ) upon enrolment or employment contract.
„Uni-ID“
At the Department of History, everyone needs the Uni-ID to log in, for example
- to the e-learning platform Moodle,
- to the campus management heiCO,
- to the cloud storage heiBOX (Seafile),
- to the VPN via Cisco-Anyconnect-Client,
- in eduROAM, the free WLAN at universities,
- to the intranet of the Department of History on Sharepoint (employees only),
- in the service laptops and stand computers in the university network (ad).
Please note that Moodle, Sharepoint and a number of other URZ services are only accessible from the university network. If you want to access these services from outside, you must first dial into the VPN. Here you need the Cisco-anyconnect client (all platforms), which in turn is secured by multi-factor authentication. The latter must be set up once from the university network.
If you have any questions about Uni-ID, please contact the computing centre. The IT team of the Department of History cannot reset Uni-ID passwords. Passwords are assigned to colleagues employed at the department via their contract. The URZ has written a useful summary of what happens if you de-register or your employment contract expires: Deactivation of the Uni-ID.
The URZ itself is located in Neuenheimer Feld. However, there is an ‘IT Service Point’ in the old town opposite the Department of History in the University Administration in the ‘Carolinum’. Please note the office hours, which are linked on the right under ‘IT Service’. It is also convenient to contact us via video call. Please remember to have an ID ready if you have any questions about your accounts.
- Management of the Uni-ID (URZ)
- IT service of the University Computer Centre (hotline, helpdesk, on-site service points)
- WLAN, eduROAM, VPN with multi-factor authentication (URZ)
- Deactivation of the official Uni-ID (URZ)
- Service catalogue of the University Computing Centre
- Heidelberg University Computing Centre (URZ)
- Internal collection of instructions of the URZ (Login via Uni-ID)
Email & Messaging
Students at Heidelberg University receive an email account on SOGo with their Uni-ID.
Research assistants and members of the History Department with a contract can have an Exchange account created on the university's own server via the IT officer, which enables personal and group-based emails, appointments, tasks, contacts and much more on all platforms (desktop/mobile).
With ‘heiCHAT’, the URZ also offers a messaging service that uses the open-source Matrix communication protocol and is recommended as an alternative to WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc. The data is stored in encrypted form on university servers. Login is via the Uni-ID.