Semester Registration and Computer Services

Computer services

We advise you to get familiar with the various computer services at HiST, as they are necessary tools for all students. The very first thing you should do is activate your user account. Below you will find information on how to do this.

Registration and PIN code

Students are required to register at the beginning of each semester, and students failing to do so will not get access to the computer services and other facilities on campus.

If you have not already received your student number an PIN code by mail, please contact the service desk or the international coordinator at your faculty for help. 

Without a student number and PIN code you will not be able to use computers or access computer services at your campus. HiST IT regulations state that the PIN code is strictly personal, and should not be given to other persons. If you loose or forget your PIN code, or suspect someone else knows it, please contact the college administration to obtain a new one.

Semester fee, student and access card

In order to utilise the services available to members of the Student Union (for example, discounts offered by the railways, buses and airlines, theatres, exhibitions etc.), you should obtain a student card from the service centre at your campus. Exchange students participating in the Nordplus and Erasmus programmes will get this card free of charge. All other students will get the student card after having presented the receipt of the Student Union membership fee (semester fee) payment. The semester, paper and copy fee is around NOK 500 for one semester. It is not possible to sit for exams without having paid the semester fee, except for Nordplus and Erasmus students. The card must be presented at all examinations, when borrowing books from the library, and used with the PIN code it serves as a key card on campus.

User name and password

With your user name and password you can login to HiST computer network, where you can save your files to your own home directory and to your own electronic mail box. User Accounts for students are generated automatically from registered data in HiST's administrative student system.

Unfortunately, the form you need to fill out is only available in Norwegian. Please read the instructions beneath before you click on the link below.

In order to access your user name and be able to choose a password, you will need the following information:

• Your PIN code
• Your student number
• Your date of birth

When you enter the link and before you start filling out the form below, please check the checkbox next to "Jeg godtar IT-reglementet ved HiST". This will be explained later.

Further down you will see a form like this:

• In the field named "Brukernavn", fill in the student number you obtained previously
• In the field named "Passord", fill in your date of birth AND the PIN code you got with your student number.

Example: You are born on the 14. of july, 1985 and the PIN code is 0018. Fill in 1407850018 in the field named "Passord".

• In the field named "Nytt passord", fill in a password of your own choosing. Read the list below to ensure you follow our guidelines
• Repeat your chosen password in the field named "Gjenta nytt passord"
• Klikk on the button "Send"

When deciding upon a password, please remember the following regulations:

• it should not begin with a capital letter
• it should contain minimum eight digits
• it should not contain the letters æ, ø, å, Æ, Ø, Å
• it should contain both small letters, capital letters and numbers or other signs.

If you have filled in the form successfully you will be taken to a new window. You will see some text in green, saying that "You have sucessfully changed your password". It will take at least 10 minutes before you can use it.

Directly beneath, you see another button called "Send passord". This will give you a password to use on our Learning Management System (LMS) called It's learning. For now, just click this button. Everything about it's learning will be explained later.

When you are ready, proceed to passord.hist.no to get your username and choose password!

If you need help when setting your password, you may call the user centre on phone 73 55 99 00, leave your mobile number and they will get back to you.

E-mail

An e-mail account will be generated automatically, and will be displayed on the screen when you are setting your password. It is very important you use this e-mail address while studying at HiST, as all information from the university college will be sent to this address. Where to find a computer? To get your user name and create a password, you may use a computer in the library without having to log in. After having obtained username and password, you will have access to the computer labs on your campus.

It´s learning

This is the online learning environment at HiST, and functions as a support and working environment for teaching and studying. Please note that this will be the main source for academic information.

To get access to it's learning you need to have completed the steps to obtain a username and password as described above.

When you clicked on the button "Send passord" on the receipt page with the green text, a new password for it's learning was generated and sent to your email account.

Go to it's learning and log in with your regular username and the password you got by email, not the one you chose for our internal computer systems.

When you log in, you will be greeted with a note saying that you agree to let it's learning collect and store information about you. You are required to agree to this in order to use it's learning. If you have any questions, please call or send an email to help desk.

Go to this page to read how to change language in it's learning if you need to do so again.

Help desks

You can ask someone at the service desk where to get help, or get help by mail:

• General computer questions: brukersenter@hist.no
• Questions regarding It’s learning: itl-hjelp@hist.no