IT tools during your studies
When you become a student at LTU, you also get access to a number of IT services you can use during your studies. Maybe you want to have your student e-mail on your cell phone, install Office on your computer or connect to our VPN service?
Email for students
When you activate your user account, you will automatically have access to a Google email account (with the address LTU-id@student.ltu.se, e.g. abcdef-4@student.ltu.se).
Log in to your student email with Google External link, opens in new window.
You can also add your student email to your mobile phone.
Adding your email on an Android phone (with Google) External link, opens in new window.
Add your email on an iPhone (with Apple) External link, opens in new window.
You can also choose to have your email forwarded to an email address you already use without any email being stored by Google.
The Canvas learning platform
Canvas is a cloud-based learning platform used in education. Students and teachers can communicate, manage materials, tests, assignments and more.
You get viewing rights to your course room when you are admitted to the course and full student rights are granted after you've completed course registration.
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Student guides on the Canvas community pages External link, opens in new window.
Microsoft 365 for students
As a student, you get access to Microsoft's cloud platform M365 throughout your studies.
Among other things, you get access to:
- Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, OneDrive and much more.
- Ability to install the software on up to 5 devices.
- 1TB storage in OneDrive
Sign in to Microsoft 365 External link, opens in new window.
If you need more help with the included products in M365, Microsoft often has detailed guides on their support pages.
Microsoft's support pages for M365 External link, opens in new window.
Microsoft Copilot - AI service for students
Generative AI is AI that can create new content – such as text, images, etc. – on its own. Copilot is a generative tool: you can give it a request, and it will generate a response based on its underlying AI models and the web.
What’s included
- Commercial data protection - Questions and other data you submit to the service are not shared further and are not used to train the data model, which means your data is secure. Note that protected and sensitive information is still not suitable for use in an AI tool (e.g., personal data).
- Just like other AI tools, there are limits to how many rounds (requests and responses) you can make per chat conversation and per day. If you reach these limits, you will receive a notification in the service.
- Go to Copilot
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Your user name is your email adress at LTU. - Read more about how Copilot handles data at Microsofts website
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VPN
To access some of the services and resources at LTU you will need to connect to our VPN-service when you're outside of campus.
To get started with configuring VPN on your computer you first need to configure MFA. You can find a guide for this here.
- Download and install FortiClient VPN only for your operating system. You can find the file here.
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- Install the downloaded program.
- Click on the blue shield in the taskbar and select Configure VPN
- Fill in the settings:
- VPN: SSL-VPN
- Connection Name: LTU Student VPN
- Remote Gateway: https://sslvpn.ltu.se:443/student
- Check: Enable Single Sign-On (SSO) for VPN Tunnel
- Save the settings.
- Initiate VPN by clicking on the (blue) shield in the taskbar and selecting Connect or SAML Login on LTU Student VPN.
- An authentication window with Microsoft login will appear where you fill in your regular user credentials.
If you get the error message "SSL VPN down", follow the steps below:
- Click on the menu with three lines next to "LTU Staff VPN".
- Select "Edit the selected connection".
- Under Client Certificate, select the certificate ".../MS-Organization-Access".
- Reconnect.
Report an error to IT
Did you want to report an error?
You can find the error report templates here.
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