All students and staff are provided with an account to use on the University's systems and services including wireless access, email, printing, and computing services.

Once student registration is complete, you will be assigned a University ID called your CRSid. This ID will be unique to you and is a combination of your initials and random numbers eg abc123.

You can use your CRSid to log in to many online services and university systems throughout your time here. It will form your Cambridge e-mail address CRSid@cam.ac.uk and is used for all official correspondence from the College, your Department/Faculty, and elsewhere in the University.
 

You will have access to the following IT services:

Raven

Raven is the University-wide authentication service provided by the University Information Services (UIS). It provides a common way for people to log in to the University's online services, and to some of the additional resources that their College or Faculty has given them private access to. Some commonly used services that use Raven are CamSIS, Eduroam, Moodle and the University Library.

If you forget or would like to change your Raven password, see: I forgot or want to change my UIS password, how do I change it?.

Desktop services

University Information Services (UIS) provide students and staff with a Desktop Services (DS) account when they arrive at Cambridge. It provides access to a range of computing services, such as:

You can log in to any of these Managed Cluster Service (MCS) workstations to access your personal desktop, your DS-Filestore and a wealth of software titles. Log in with your CRSid and UIS Password.

Sidney has a Computer Suite with 15 MCS computer's (running Windows and Linux) and 1 iMac (running macOS).

Find out more: https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/new-starters/it-for-students/student-it-services/desktop-services-ds

DS-Print

See: Printing (DS-Print).

Microsoft account

All Cambridge students will have a University of Cambridge Microsoft account which includes email, calendar, contacts and a host of other online apps. You also get free access to the entire Microsoft Office suite (Office 365 ProPlus) while you're an active member of the University.

Find out more: https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/new-starters/it-for-students/student-it-services/your-microsoft-account

To download Office 365 ProPlus, follow the instructions: https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/service/collaboration/office365/download-office365

Hermes is the predecessor email service to Exchange Online (included as part of the Microsoft account) for Cambridge students and is no longer issued to new students.

If you are an existing University member and would like to migrate your Hermes account to Exchange Online, see: How do i migrate from Hermes to Exchange Online?