ABOUT THIS SERVICE
ONE PERSON, ONE COMPUTING ID.
Your Computing ID is the username before “@sfu.ca” in your SFU email address. For example, if your SFU email is "kipling@sfu.ca", then your Computing ID is "kipling". Don't confuse it with the 9-digit student/employee number on your SFU ID card.
A computing ID is your digital key to login to SFU's technology services available to you, such as:
- Wi-fi
- SFU Mail (email and calendaring)
- goSFU (course registration, tuition payment)
- Canvas (lecture materials, assignments, etc.)
- Computer labs
- Online library service
- and a variety of other SFU technology services
Activate Your Computing ID
Change Your Computing ID Password
Change Your Display Name
FAQ
I have more than one email address. Which one contains my computing ID?
Everyone at SFU has a primary email address (formatted as computingID@sfu.ca), as well as one or more email aliases (commonly formatted as firstname_lastname@sfu.ca). Usually the Computing ID doesn't have any underscores, has 8 characters and is a combination of the characters from the first and last name of the account holder. For example:
| Name |
Computing ID |
Alias |
| Rudy Kiping |
kipling |
Rudy_Kipling |
| Katie-Louise Barr |
klbarr |
Katie_Louise_Barr |
| Chaya Hunt |
chunt |
Chaya_Hunt |