SH-Account
Your SH-Account allows you to access to the university’s digital services. It is created automatically once you are admitted, but you need to activate it yourself.
To get started you need to:
- Activate you SH-Account
- Activate multi-factor authentication
Once your account is activated you can access SH-StudyWeb, Office 365 and the wireless network. Read more further down the page, under The university’s digital services.
Activate your account with a time-limited single-use password (valid for four hours). This is also used if you need to reset your password.
- Collect your SH-Account on your screen with BankID, EduID or Freja.
- Collect your SH-Account from Infocenter.
Go to Infocenter and collect a single-use password. You must present valid ID.
If none of the above options work, please contact Infocenter (info@sh.se). Include your personal ID number.
No Swedish personal ID number? You can create a verified eduID using eIDAS or Svipe ID, or get Freja, and then follow the above steps to collect your SH-Account.
You can also visit Infocenter to collect your SH-Account. Remember to bring a valid form of ID and your temporary Swedish ID number.
You can find your temporary Swedish personal ID number in your notification of selection results on your page at antagning.se /universityadmissions.se.
The next step
Once your account is activated, you also need to activate multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Multi-factor authentication is compulsory at Södertörn University. This is to increase the security of your student account. Multi-factor authentication means that there are two login steps: first with your SH-Account, and then with a code or verification via an app in your mobile.
This page has more information about activating multi-factor authentication.
- A step-by-step guide to activating your SH-Account and setting up multi-factor authentication is provided below. 1. Go to: https://konto.prd.sh.se/student External link, opens in new window. and choose a means of identification.
- Read and accept the Terms and Conditions.
- Take a note of your username.
- Copy the single-use password shown on the screen.
- Click on Change/Update a single-use password. A tab will open.
- Enter your username and paste the single-use password into the field for your previous password.
- Choose a new password, repeat it, and click Submit.
- When you are shown a confirmation that the password has been updated, close the tab and return to the previous page.
Wait before continuing
Wait about five minutes before continuing with multi-factor authentication.
Activating multi-factor authentication
- Go to: https://mfavalidate.prd.sh.se/ External link, opens in new window.
- Log in with your SH-Account.
- Click Next when the ‘Let’s protect your account’ box is displayed.
- If you don’t already have it, install the Microsoft Authenticator app on your mobile.
- Open the app, select ‘Add account’ and then ‘Work or school account’.
- Select ‘Scan a QR code’ and allow the camera and notifications if requested.
- Click through on your computer until the QR code appears, then scan it with your mobile phone.
- When your account appears in the app, click Next on your computer.
- A code appears on the screen and a notification is sent to your mobile phone. Enter the code in the app and confirm.
- Follow the final steps on the screen until you see that multi-factor authentication is complete.
Once you have registered and activated your SH account, you will have access to:
If you are admitted but have not yet registered, you will not be able to access all the features of your SH-Account.
Only admitted
- Log in to student.ladok.se External link, opens in new window. (Register for courses, update contact details, see study results)
- Use the university’s WiFi
Registered
- Log in to student.ladok.se External link, opens in new window. (Register for courses, update contact details, see study results and register for in-person exams)
- Use the university’s WiFi
- Log in to SH-StudyWeb External link, opens in new window. (learning management system)
- Log in to Office365 External link, opens in new window. (OneDrive for saving files, Office, collaboration tools)
- Use the library’s e-resources.
To receive email from Södertörn University you must state your email address in Student-Ladok External link, opens in new window.. Please make sure it is an address you use regularly.
When you finish studying, your SH-Account is removed
270 days (about a year) after the end of your final registration, you will receive an email saying that your SH-Account will be deleted. Then you will have five weeks to save any material.
Unless you are admitted or registered on a new course/programme at Södertörn University your SH-Account will then be removed. All the saved files in Office365 OneDrive, and all the personal data linked to your SH-Account, will be deleted (under the GDPR).
To log in to Student-Ladok once your SH-Account has been removed, you can use Bank-ID External link, opens in new window. or Freja eID External link.. Alumni can access a limited version of Student-Ladok where you can apply for degree certificates, create certificates or share the information in them.