IT Services

IT provides help and advice with using computer software and hardware. The university records as well as teaching and learning rely a lot on IT systems. The systems here are integrated with systems in the UK main campus and are supported by both the local IT team with escalation to the UK DTS team

Below are the services relevant to students.

Email/Office 365

Email

The university provides Email and office 365 accesses to all its current students. Email is used regularly as the 'official' from of communication between staff and students so please check your emails frequently. To log on to your email, please go to www.office.com or www.outlook.com and click login. The username that you are suppose to use is in the following form:

Username: itsuserid@student.reading.ac.uk (e.g. ab192837@student.reading.ac.uk)

To access your email you need to use your email address and the password you set when you enrolled. As part of the Office 365 suite, the following are available throughout your period of study in the university. if you have forgotten you password, you can recover it here.

You must use your University email account for your University correspondence; do not use a 'private' email account. This is because of the following reasons:

  • the University guarantees that this account will be available to you for the entire duration of your studies;
  • the University guarantees that suitable, supported email software will be available to you for the entire duration of your studies;
  • the University offers an email service to standards of availability, reliability, performance and security which it determines and which are under its own control;
  • email sent from non university mail accounts may be classified as SPAM and hence not read.

Office applications.

All the latest Office productivity software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote are available for student use. To get the software, you just need to login to Office 365 via the link here. Microsoft has a comprehensive support section on their website here which will answer most questions and queries. if there is are still questions, please free to contact IT.

Online storage

OneDrive for Business is also available for all students. This includes free cloud storage. You will be able to share files quickly and easy and access your files at the university and at home easily.

Teams

Teams is a collaboration tool from Microsoft, designed to help people work better together. It is an online shared space for teams where members can post messages, pictures and links with the ability to comment and discuss on the things posted.

Some meetings and information sessions will be delivered via Microsoft Teams. Online meeting functionality and Live Events sessions allow for collaborative sessions and presentations via your student login. Follow the link in any calendar invite or open Teams through your Office365 login. There is a useful Teams app available for your smartphone or tablet.

Contacting IT

The IT Service Desk is the first point of contact for all fault reports and service requests. IT support is available via

  • Online through the IT Self Service Portal
  • by calling 6262 from any internal phone (07 268 6262 from your mobile or off site)
  • the IT Self Service Portal.

You can also visit the IT Service Desk in the SWAS during its operation hours.

If you need to check the progress of an enquiry, please log into the IT Self Service Portal where you can see any status updates or contact IT and quote your ticket number.

IT Self Service Portal

ext 6262 (+607-268 6262)

Contact point: IT Office @ N161 (Tuesdays and Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)

IT service hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Saturday, Sunday & Public Holidays - OFF

Useful Links

DTS Website

The UK Digital services Website.

IT Remote Support Portal

Remote support for IT issues.

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