Accounts, Logins, and Passwords
Student Accounts Information
Are you a new or current Student on campus looking for assistance? We're here to help you set up your Student accounts and answer tech questions. Use the links above if you forgot your PIN or Password.
- If you forgot your PIN, a reset link will be sent to your uregina Webmail.
- If you forgot your uregina password, a reset link will be sent to your alternate email address.
- If you contact IT Support to reset a forgotten password, they will provide an Activation code.
uregina username and password
- Used for Webmail (email), UR Courses, Lab computers, Printing, and more.
username@uregina.ca and password
- Used for Free eduroam WiFi.
ID # and PIN
- Your 9-digit ID is your issued Student number (employee ID # is the same). Your initial PIN is your birthday, which you can change. Used to log in to UR Self-Service.
Find (or Forgot) uregina.ca USERNAME
- New or current Student? Find your username for your uregina account here - your username will be retrieved along with information about your password.
- This is your username and password used for UR Courses and UR Webmail.
Activate/Re-Activate uregina.ca Account
- If you're a New Student, you can use your Date of Birth as an Activation code.
- Set a new password by clicking 'Activate/Re-activate Account' - you will be asked to enter your username, 9-digit ID, and the activation code.
- If you contact IT Support to reset a forgotten password, they will provide an Activation code.
UR Self-Service
Log in with your 9-digit ID number & PIN- Search, Register, or Drop Classes & Visual Schedule Builder
- Pay Tuition and Accounts
- Academic Advising
- Purchase Your Textbooks
- Request a Student ID card
- Graduate Student Requests
- Canadian Tax Forms
- Updating personal information & adding, or editing alternate email address(es).
- View Final Grades & unofficial transcripts & order official transcripts.
New Students
Access granted after accepting your offer (activation of your account can take up to 48 hours). Initial Log in with your 9-digit ID number & PIN DDMMYY (you can change your PIN after this).
UR Courses
UR Courses is the online learning environment (OLE) used by the University of Regina and its Federated Colleges. This web based application offers a safe and secure environment where students are able to access course materials & activities posted by instructors.- Most instructors post course materials for classes in UR Courses.
- Log in using your uregina username (just your username, NOT username@uregina.ca) and password.
Webmail (email) for Students
Log in using your uregina username (just your username, NOT username@uregina.ca) and password. If you are not receiving email, you can check to see if you are over quota by logging in to Webmail. Check the bottom left corner to see a percentage total of what is used. Students have a 2 GB quota for email.
When you first log in to your new account it is best to check under preferences. You want to be sure 'User Level' is set to High. This will give you all the functionality of webmail.
- Be sure your Email Address is your
userid + @uregina.ca. - You can customize
colour schemes, etc. - If you want to save a copy of each email you send then you will need to create a folder for this.
- Folder creation requires a prefix to the name of the folder.
- If you want a folder to store your sent messages, "
sentmail, " you would name it "INBOX.sentmail" for the new mailbox.
- Example: if you want to use "
sentmail " to store your outgoing email but want your 2020 outgoing email to be "archived" and archived under "sentmail " then you can create "INBOX.sentmail.2020" - "INBOX.sentmail" must first exist and you will have to move the email items from "
sentmail" to "sentmail .2020."
Complete email deletion is a
- Marked for deletion will show a Red X beside the targeted email.
- Expunge then tells the server to actually do
deletion .
- Webmail is an email client via the web and accessible with any browser, anywhere there's internet connectivity.
- Using Webmail doesn't
preventing a user from using other methods to access the email store, but depending on the connection and location, other email clients may have trouble sendingemail . - Using an ISP that is unknown to the email server results in a "relaying not allowed" error for sending
email . - Known ISPs are SaskTel and Access.
- Because the Webmail server is known by the Email server, such errors never occur even though the user may be in Australia.
- New users will notice their account has a folder called spam.
- Our email filter server tags spam email coming into the email server and delivers it to the spam folder, rather than your INBOX.
- Every night email in the spam folder, that is older than 21 days is deleted.
- Best to check the folder periodically.
- New accounts are less likely than aged accounts to accumulate spam email.
When you create a forward to a different email address, you will no longer receive the messages in your uregina account.
The University of Regina is not responsible for messages forwarded to another email address.
- Log into email forwarding
- From the drop-down box, choose create forward or delete forwarding.
- If forwarding, enter the email address you would like to have your @uregina.ca email forwarded to.
- Click Send Request.
It is recommended that you add uregina.ca to a trust /safe list on the forwarded email account.
For PDF instructions for iOS or Android click the appropriate link.
- secure connections are required.
The following information is provided to enable configuration of unsupported IMAP clients.
SMTP server (Outgoing mail server)
- Address smtp.uregina.ca
- Port: 587 with STARTTLS for encryption
IMAP server (Incoming mail Server)
- Address: imap.uregina.ca
- Port: 143 with STARTTLS for encryption OR
- Port: 993 with SSL/TLS for encryption
POP server (Incoming mail server using the pop protocol)
Warning POP removes all email from the webmail mailbox and downloads it onto your local device.- Only use POP if your mail client does not support IMAP for incoming email
- Username: username
- Address: imap.uregina.ca
- Port: 110 with STARTTLS for encryption OR
- Port: 995 with SSL/TLS for encryption
Customize your uregina.ca email account by creating a secondary alias address
- Email sent to the alias address is delivered to your usual uregina.ca email account.
- If your email is forwarded to another address, the alias will also be automatically forwarded to that address.
- Alias can consist of letters and numbers only, no spaces, periods or other characters.
- Alias cannot match any existing username.
- Only one additional user alias is allowed per account.
- Aliases that contain offensive language, are intended to impersonate or deceive, or are otherwise deemed inappropriate will be deleted and further disciplinary action may be considered.
- Aliases must adhere to the Respectful University Policy.
Account Name Change Request
If your username includes your last name, and you now have a different last name, you can request a new username to reflect the change.
- This request changes your 'uregina.ca' account information.
Subscribe or Unsubscribe from UR Email Lists
You can subscribe or unsubscribe to campus email lists.
- Click Elective Lists in the Browse lists by category box in the middle of the page.
- Click the list name you wish to Subscribe or Unsubscribe from.
- Click Subscribe or Unsubscribe on the left side menu. You will be prompted to input your email address.