Complete the registration before you start your education!
It is important to first accept the offer of admission before starting the registration process. You can do this by logging onto the Søknadsweb by the deadline.
International students who have not previously lived in Norway, must first collect an introduction packet before registering on the NMBU systems. These packets are normally available during the introduction week.
International students: Before proceeding with the registration process, you must have been sent an encrypted letter with a fictive ID number and a 4-digit pin code if you do not have a Norwegian Identity Number.
You must first create a user account at NMBU. Follow these instructions to activate your user account on Brukerdata.
Once your user account has been activated, you will get access to StudentWeb, Canvas, NMBU Help, NMBU email account and IT services which require Feide logon.
IMPORTANT: Write down your username from Brukerdata. You will need this to access all of your accounts.
To access some NMBU services outside of campus, you will need a secure logon in addition to your password, also known as two-factor authentication. This means that you will have to use a one-time code sent by SMS or an App to access NMBU services on your computer, mobile phone and tablet. In addition, you will also need a two-factor authentication to access Microsoft Office (all Office software and your NMBU email) outside of campus. There are user guides for how to do this.
Activate secure logon for NMBU services (choose one):
- Two-factor authentication by SMS
(requires mobile phone coverage in Norway) - Two-factor authentication by App
In addition, you must activate secure logon for Microsoft:
- Two-factor authentication by SMS
You must log on to the Student Web and complete a five-step registration process for courses and exams. All who are about to study and/or take an exam at NMBU have to be registered.
The Student Web is where you will administer your education plan, your courses, exam dates and what room the exam will be in, and your exam results. You will use the Student Web to update your semester address when it changes, to register for lectures and exams, or to cancel courses.
Once the registration is complete you will have access to the courses in Canvas.
Note:
Registration must be completed for each individual semester.
Use the Academic calendar to ensure you meet important registration deadlines.IMPORTANT:
- Degree students should wait until after the welcome day at the faculty before selecting elective courses.
- Exchange students can receive assistance from the exchange coordinator to register additional courses.Should you have any questions around semester registration, please send an w-mail to sit@nmbu.no.
Before logging onto the Studentweb, you must first access your user account and create your password on brukerdata.
Begin by logging onto the StudentWeb via Feide using your username and password.
Click on "Start Registration" to complete the five-step process:1) Rights and Obligations
Read through NMBU's rules and regulations and check the box to confirm that you have read and accepted these. Read through NMBU's information on cheating and plagerism and how to avoid this, and then check the box to confirm that you acknowledge the information. Click next to proceed.
2) Study Plan
Review your detailed education plan for each semester of studies. All obligatory coursework should already be listed, but elective coursework may not be listed. You can add elective courses in this step. As a general rule, one academic year of studies is equivalent to 60 study points, alternatively 30 study points per semester. If your education plan is incomplete, you must nevertheless confirm the education plan and contact your study coordinator later for clarifications, changes and/or additions. Click next to proceed.
3) Status and OverviewReview the summary of completed and remaining coursework. Reminders for obligatory coursework will be noted. Click next to proceed.
4) Profile
Enter your local mailing address. If you live on campus, use the mailing address listed on your SiÅs welcome letter.
Enter emergency contact information. Include name, relationship type, telephone number and email address if possible. Click complete to proceed.
5)ConfirmationThis is the final step in the Semester Registration process. Review the summary of course registration for the semester and the assessment form.
The semester registration process is complete when you have completed the five steps above AND you have paid the semester fee.
Semester registration and approval of your education plan.
Make sure that your individual education plan is correct. When your approve your individual education plan you will automatically be registered for your compulsory courses that's in your plan for that semester. NB: Please make sure to that you are also registered for your exams.
Remember that you must do your semester registration and pay the semester fee within the deadline for take your exam. All deadlines are listed in the Academic Calendar.
You are responsible for registration or withdrawal from the courses you are taking. Check the course which you have been registered for, in the top menu iten "Active course" on the Student Web.
Check your registrations before the registration deadline and contact SiT if you have any questions.
Extra courses and register for re-exam /"konte"
- Log in to studentweb
- Choose "active courses"
- Look up the applicable course
- Choose the course and follow any further instructions
This video shows how you can register for courses in Studentweb.
Registration deadlines for courses and exams
- Registration deadline for August block: First Wednesday in August block
- Registration deadline for Autumn parallel: 15 September
- Registration deadline for Autumn re-exam (konte): 1 October
- Registration deadline for January block: 1 December
- Registration deadline for Spring parallel: 1 February
- Registration deadline for spring re-exam (konte): 1 March
- Registration deadline for June block: 1 April
If you do not intend to take your exam, you must remember to withdraw from your courses and exams in the Student Web within the deadlines provided in the Academic Calendar.
This is how you do it:
Studentweb - Click on ‘My active courses’ and then ‘withdraw from exam’.
If you withdraw from a course by mistake, contact SiT as soon as possible.
Withdrawal deadlines
- August block: First Wednesday of August block
- Autumn parallel: 1 November
- Re-examination (konte) autumn: 1 November
- January block: First Wednesday of January block
- Spring parallel: 1 April
- Re-examation (konte) spring: 1 April
- June block: 1 May
All students must pay the semester fee. Payment information can be found on the Student Web. All students must generate the invoice from the Student Web in the beginning of each semester.
Deadlines: Autumn semester: 15 September. Spring semester: 1 February.
IMPORTANT: Bilateral and Erasmus+ Exchange students are exempt from paying the semester fee. Questions can be sent to international@nmbu.no.
Download the semester-card app (Studentbevis) to show proof of payment, also exchange students who are exempt from paying.The semester fee is regulated by the National Student Welfare Organisation Act, Section 17. The payments is connected with NMBUs systems to ensure the right to study, together with semester registration. The payment is once every semester, which means that if you are a student at another Norwegian higher education institution you can send proof of semester fee payment to sit@nmbu.no to ensure registered in the NMBU systems.
PhD candidates are not eligible to pay the semester fee, with the exception of education funded by The Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund, who from the sixth chapter of the regulations allow funding for programs supported through the NORAD or The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, which provides the only exception to the rule.
Student Web
A portal with information about your education. This is where you register for the semester, check and change your education plan and register to courses and exams. The exam dates and exam results will also be published here.
Canvas
You will find instructional videos about Canvas in NMBUhelp. The Canvas platform providesdetails about classes, syllabi and assignment submission. Canvas allows communication and interaction betwen the student and teacher(s) and student-to-student.
Teaching and Exam Schedule
The teaching and exam schedule is available on TimeEdit.
You can see how it works here (video).
Webmail
As a student at NMBU, you will be assigned an e-mail address with access to webmail. The university will send you important information to this address and it is therefore important that you check your e-mail regularly. It is not possible to set up automatic forwarding of e-mail from this inbox to another e-mail address. Therefore, make sure that you check the e-mails in this account regularly so that you do not miss anything that may be important.
Your email address is set up equally to your name and will be firstname.middlename.middlename.lastname@nmbu.no
NMBUHelp
Mazemap
Mazemap is your digital map that will help you find your way around on campus.
Versions: Mazemap on internet and apps for Android/IOS.
The student ID app works as a student ID at, among others, the student welfare organisations and public transport companies (e.g. NSB), and will be valid in the same way as the study card and paper receipt. However, you will still need a study card to e.g. access buildings and borrow books.
The student ID is not valid unless the semester fee has been paid, and you have registered for the semesterin the Student web. If your photo is not displayed in the app, other valid identification must be presented with the app. Students studying at multiple institutions must select the institution where they have paid the semester fee when they log in to the student ID app.
How to log in to the student ID app for the first time?
- Open the app (requires internet access).
- Choose which educational institution you belong to.
- Log in with the usual username and password given by your educational institution.
- Read the declaration of consent and accept (the app can only be used if you give your consent).
- Read the terms and agree (the app can only be used if you accept the terms).
- The app shows the photo that was taken to the student card. If the app does not display photo, other valid photo ID must be displayed upon inspection for the app to be golden as a student ID.
- If you have paid the semester fee and registered for the semester, this will show in a yellow box at the bottom of the page. The receipt itself is stored in the app, so after logging in and registering the paid semester fee in the app, it can be used without internet access.
Note: You must have both an app (or a semester card) and a student ID
Students who do not have a smartphone
If you do not have a smartphone and therefore do not have the opportunity to use the student ID app, you can order a semester receipt on paper. You log in to Studentweb, and from the menu in the upper left corner, select Orders and then Semester receipt. Remember to check that the semester address in StudentWeb is updated first.
Use of the Student Web pages are compliant with the provisions of the Act relating to the processing of personal data (Personal Data Act) of 01.01.2001 and associated regulations, and is subject to the Internal Control System for Information Security at NMBU's routines for the use of personal data.
Please find more information about privacy upon admission on our website.
Semesterstart
All programmes at NMBU has a study advisor. They are the students' connector at the faculty with regards to questions to do with your programme. You may contact your study advisor from NMBUhjelp, or send an e-mail. All study programmes show contact details for the study advisors. Single course students do not have their own study advisor, and can contact the STudent Information Centre (SiT) with questions.
Use the generic search at the top of this page to find detailed information about all of the courses offered at NMBU, or go to the course web page for your search.
Life outside your studies
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