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Activate your registration and engage with Unisa through myUnisa. It's your central hub for communication and an essential study tool.

Registered Unisa students all get a free myLife e-mail account. Important information, notices and updates are sent exclusively to this account. Please note that it can take up to 24 hours for your account to become available after you have claimed your myUnisa account.

Your myLife e-mail account will be the only e-mail account recognised by Unisa for official correspondence to and from the university, and will remain the official primary e-mail address on record at Unisa.

Official communication from the university is sent via e-mail to a student's myLife e-mail account. The rules for the use of the myLife e-mail account are as follows:

1. The university provides all registered students with a free myLife e-mail address. It is the student's responsibility to activate their myLife e-mail account as soon as their registration is finalised.
2. The myLife e-mail account will be the only e-mail account recognised by Unisa for official correspondence to and from the university and will remain the official primary e-mail address on record at Unisa.
3. All official communication from the university will be sent to the myLife account. Other additional communication channels may be used from time-to-time, but the university will communicate with students primarily via their myLife e-mail addresses.
4. The management of this e-mail account remains the responsibility of the student.

Update your mobile number on myUnisa to receive SMS alerts about important updates.

Get Microsoft Office 365 and 1TB of online storage, free of charge. Microsoft Office 365 is an integrated service that provides you with access to a set of Microsoft tools, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and One Drive. These can be installed on three devices.

OneDrive gives you 1TB of online storage. With Office 365, you have the perfect place to store all your personal files. All your files will be stored online, which means that you'll be able to access them anytime, anywhere, by logging in to your 365 account using your Unisa myLife e-mail address and password.

Unisa has teamed up with Cell C, MTN, Telkom and Vodacom to ensure that you won't pay any data costs when visiting myUnisa or the Unisa website. This means that you can visit any Unisa website (any website with a Unisa address) for free! You can also download most of your study material from a Unisa website, free of charge. If, however, you visit any other website, such as YouTube and online journals - even if it forms part of your prescribed or recommended study resources - you will have to pay the relevant data costs for visiting non-Unisa websites and downloading content from them.

Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn and YouTube are great channels through which to share ideas, find other students, ask questions and generally stay informed.

Internet-based Unisa Radio is a vibrant and informative platform of information and topics focused on our Unisa students. Its programming consists of music, informative interviews and talk shows.

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The general guidelines for online behaviour are often referred to as "netiquette" and these can include respecting others' opinions in discussion forums, keeping messages concise, avoiding bad language and sarcasm, not copying large numbers of people in e-mails, addressing staff and fellow students politely and appropriately, and so on.

myUnisa, our student platform, is an online environment focused on learning. It is a space where you can express your opinions about learning matters even if your opinions differ from what others are saying.

Formal electronic Unisa sites should be used for formal study purposes only. Unisa sites may not be used for private communication or advertising. No third party should be given access to any of these sites. Misuse of these sites could result in you not being permitted to study further at Unisa.