Activating NYCU Portal
- Update Date:2024-09-26
- Units:Center for Information Technology Services
Activating Instructions (students)
- There are three steps to activate NYCU portal account:
- Confirm Identity
- For domestic students/faculty and staff, please enter the ID Card number in the “ID Card/Residence Card Number” field.
- For foreign students/faculty and staff, please enter the residence card number in the “ID Card/Residence Card Number” field.
- For foreign freshmen who do not have a resident card, please enter your student ID plus last digit of your birthday in the “ID Card/Residence Card Number” field.
- For foreign faculty and staff who do not have a resident card, please enter your passport number in the “ID Card/Residence Card Number” field.
- Apply NYCU Email Account
- This is a Google Workspace account.
- Account format:
- Students
- username.dept+num@nycu.edu.tw (autocompleted by the system)
- Faculty & Staff
- username@nycu.edu.tw
- Students
- Set up email recovery: Please enter an email address (optional) and a phone number (must) as the recovery of your NYCU Email Account. In case you forget your password, you can use Google [Forgot Password] to reset the password.
- If faculty and staff need to switch employee numbers, the system will display “You were previously an employee of this university, please use your original email address.” Please follow the instructions to select your original email address and press [Confirm to continue using it].
- Once the account application is approved, the account name cannot be requested for modification.
- Set the portal password and the alternate email address for the forgotten password.
- Confirm Identity
- Email and portal passwords must meet the complexity requirements. The password must be at least 8 characters and must contain characters from three of the following four categories: uppercase letters A-Z, lowercase letters a-z, digits 0-9, and special characters. With the password strength indicator displaying at least "Ok" or "Good". Please remember your password.
- Upon successful application, the NYCU Email account will be established as a Google Workspace account. You can use this account to log in to Gmail for sending and receiving emails.