User account

Students and employees USN-account will be automatically created when registered as a student or employee. It must be activated before use.

Activate user account
  1. Go to account.usn.no
  2. Click Activate / Update account and select Student or Employee
  3. Type in the following information to proceed
    • Students: National identity number + surname
    • International students: SO number (Norwegian national identity number) + surname
    • Employees: National identity number + surname
  4. You must approve the ICT regulations
  5. Create a password
  6. Wait 1 hour, then set up Two-factor authentication on your account

If you receive the error message "Your user account is not eligible for activation", it usually means that your user account is already activated. Please try resetting your password.

When your account has been activated, you will recive a e-mail with your username.

Two-factor authentication (MFA)

After activating your user account, wait at least one hour before setting up two-factor authentication.

Guide on how to set up two-factor authentication.

When can i activate my account?

  • Students

    User accounts are automatically created when they receive a student number and are activated in the student register (FS). The main recording takes place approx. August 1 each year and it will then be possible to activate the user account.
    Students are also admitted at other times, such as an engineering pre-course (summer course). Those concerned will receive information directly from the study administration.
     

  • Employees

    User account is created as professionals in FS by the Section for payroll and personnel services. 

Forgotten password

Go to account.usn.no and click Forgotten password.

NB!

Phone number and/or a private e-mailaddress must be registered to use this feature.

  • Emloyees: If this is not registered, please contact IT-support to register this information.
  • Students: Phone number and private e-mail adress is automatically transferred from "Studentregisteret" and any changes must be updated in StudentWeb or at norge.no.
Password rules

Your password must meet the following requirements:

  • Must be at least 16 characters long.

  • Passwords are case sensitive.

  • No character must be repeated sequentially more than 3 times.

  • Do not include parts of your name or username.

  • The password may contain letters, numbers and special characters.

  • Special national letters must not be used.

  • Examples of special characters ,;.:-_*!”#’%&/()<>^=?@$+\{|}~[]`

NB! Note that the keyboard position of special characters may vary with your selected keyboard language setting.

What username do I sign in with?

NB!: For students your studentnumber is used as your username.

 

"Username"

"Username"@usn.no

Feide

Microsoft 365

My.usn.no

Eduroam (WiFi)

Employees PC/Student PCs/Clasroom PCs

Pay.usn.no (Printing account)

Konto.usn.no

 

Home.usn.no

 

Printer, when activating your card

 
FEIDE services

This information applies to USN user accounts where you select the University of South-Eastern Norway as an affiliate when logging in via Feide.

One important site that gives you useful information about Feide is https://innsyn.feide.no/.
This site is great for testing that everything is fine with your Feide account. 

In the “My info” tab, you will find all the information registered about you in ITs user database. 

The “Consent” tab gives you an overview of the Feide services you have logged into and accepted the transfer of data to. You can also withdraw consent for one or more services in this tab if you no longer need to log in to them. 

The “Services” tab provides an overview of the Feide services USN subscribes to.

 

If you want access to a Feide service that USN does not subscribe to, send an inquiry to it-support@usn.no. Feel free to send with the link to the login page on the relevant service as this simplifies the processing of your request.

 

From 15.03.24, strong authentication (two-factor login) has been introduced on all Feide services except WISEflow, Lovdata and Innsyn. The choices for two-factor are Entra-ID (Microsoft account) and ID-porten. We recommend using Entra-ID, which is the Microsoft account you use at USN, i.e. <username>@usn.no, as this is the easiest. The fastest is to select Use work or school account in the first login screen in Feide. If you are not already logged in to Entra-ID (Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, etc.), you must log in with <username>@usn.no and confirm the login with the Authenticator app, as when logging in to Microsoft365. To be able to use ID-porten, you must have a Norwegian birth number or D-number and a BankID, MinID or Buypass ID. This is a backup solution if you have problems using Entra-ID. NB! If you have both an active student user account and an employee user account, you cannot use ID-porten as a two-factor method when logging in to Feide!