What is a CRSid?
A Common Registration Scheme Identifier (CRSid) is the name of the identifier given to anyone who needs to access IT resources at Cambridge. It's made up of letters and numbers – for example, acb123. The letters of a CRSid may match some of the initials in the owner's name, there is no formal association between the letters in a CRSid and the owner's name. The numbers are random.
Your CRSid is unique to you and is usually allocated for life. If you leave and later return to the University, you will get your original CRSid back.
Being allocated a CRSid does not imply any relationship between the owner and the University of Cambridge.
Your CRSid is used:
- to identify you for administrative purposes – for example, on online systems such as the Cambridge Student Information System (CamSIS) or the Cambridge Human Resources Information System (CHRIS)
- as your @cam email address in the format: [CRSid]@cam.ac.uk
- as your username when you log in to University systems and resources protected by your University account password (formerly Raven).
How do I get my CRSid?
Undergraduate students
Your CRSid is created before you arrive. This is so that you can access the following in advance of starting at Cambridge:
- your @cam email
- reading lists by logging using your University account
- Moodle, the University Virtual Learning Environment
- any other information your College or Departments shares with you before you arrive.
In late August, the Student Registry will email you instructions for student registration. At the end of this you will be prompted to collect your CRSid and set up your own University account password.
Postgraduate students
Your Department will contact you with information about how to collect your IT accounts, including your CRSid, before you start.
Staff, visitors and Academic Visitors
Your College, Department or Institution will provide you with a registration code.
Once you have this go to the Jackdaw website to sign up to your CRSid and access to your University IT accounts: https://jackdaw.cam.ac.uk/signup/.
Can I change my CRSid?
A CRSid cannot be changed. In exceptional circumstances, we may create you a new CRSid and terminate your existing one. You will need to liaise with the administrators of any systems you had access to with your old CRSid to grant the same access to your new CRSid. Unfortunately, we cannot arrange or co-ordinate this because we do not know what systems you have access to.
Our User Administration team needs to approve a replacement CRSid. Please email user-admin@uis.cam.ac.uk with the details of your request to find out if this is possible and, if so, the process that will be followed.