As a student of the RWTH Aachen University, you are to register in the Identity Management or you can link your status "student" with your existing registration if you have registered in the Identity Management at an earlier point of time.

To complete your registration or to add a student status to you existing registration, you ned to redeem a coupon code. You receive the coupon code via email after you have enrolled as a student and paid the semeter fee. If you have not received the coupon code, please contact the IT-ServiceDesk.

It may take up to two days until all your accounts are set up and your personal data has been synchronised with the databank of the Registrar's Office. After the registration is completed, you receive the status "Student RWTH".

For more details about the process look here: Guide for new students

Please follow this manual or watch our video tutorial on the registration in the Identity Management to redeem you coupon code.

• Entering the coupon
• Option 1: Login with your username
• Option 2: Registration
• Choosing the RWTH-e-mail-address
• Process completed & your credentials
• Your Accounts

Entering the coupon

Please enter the coupon on the following page: http://www.rwth-aachen.de/connectMe/

Now you can choose between two options: Log in with your username (option 1) or register (option 2).

Option 1: Login with your username

Please enter your username (format: 123456) and password.

Please note:
You already have a username, if you were a student or employee at RWTH Aachen University before. You also might have registered being participant of language courses, pre-courses or by an RWTHmoodle invitation.
If you are not certain whether you already have a username, please contact the IT-ServiceDesk or use the PasswordReset. Here you can have your username sent to your contact e-mail address.

Confirming the Username

Please confirm your username shown in bold (in this example pp123456)..

Option 2: Registration

As user of the services of RWTH Aachen University you are obliged to obey the rules of the network code of conduct. Please agree to the network code of conduct and enter an e-mail address.

This e-mail address will be used as contact e-mail address from now on. You can change your contact e-mail address in the Selfservice at any time.

Entering Verification Code

Enter a verification code that has been sent to your new registered contact e-mail address.

Choosing the RWTH-e-mail-address

If you do not have an RWTH e-mail address, you can choose it in the next step. If you have multiple names you can select a combination of your liking.

If you already have an RWTH e-mail address, this step is omitted.

With choosing "Include this RWTH-E-Mail-Address in the global address book" every RWTH student and employee (with mail-address in this domain) can see you in the domain address list.

You can valdiate your choosing and change you mail-addres by hitting "back".

Registration completion & your credentials

You have registered successfully in the IdentityManagement and the student status will soon be connected to your data.

Note down your username and password carefully as they are shown only once! Please treat your access data confidentially and do not pass them to the third party.

In case you have got a new RWTH e-mail address, this account will be shown to you as well.

Your Accounts

The passage "Your Accounts" lists all accounts that will be setup for you. After completion you will be informed via mail to your contact e-mail address and are able to set passwords for these accounts. This can take up to two days.

Close the process by clicking "finish".