When the TU-ID is activated, you will usually receive an e-mail address at TU Darmstadt in the form firstname.lastname@stud.tu-darmstadt.de. Important information about your studies will only be sent to this e-mail address by TU Darmstadt. You should therefore set up your own TU mailbox.
More information and instructions regarding your e-mail address
Set up your e-mail address now by using your “Student e-mail address” in our IDM Portal
Athena Card combines various functions that are helpful at TU Darmstadt on a daily basis. You can use it to pay for food and drinks at our cafeterias, to identify yourself at HRZ Service, and it is also your user card for Darmstadt's university and state library (ULB) and University Sports Centre. In order to obtain an Athena Card, a passport photo must be deposited for account administration. If you need support, use the offer of our photo station at the service counters .
Your Athena card will be sent by post to the address deposited in TuCAN.
How to get your Athena Card. In this short video you will learn how to get your Athena card.
Download the TUDa App. Your digital student ID card is available directly in the app. You will also find many other useful functions in the app.
TUCaN is the central system for managing courses and exams at TU Darmstadt. It’s best to set up email forwarding and download the TUCaN app now.
You can use free WiFi at TU Darmstadt with your WiFi account. TU Darmstadt is a member of the eduroam network. Therefore, you can also log onto our WiFi at other universities within this network.
next.Hessenbox allows users to share, synchronise and store files securely and quickly between different users, desktop computers or mobile devices. It is also possible to work on documents collaboratively in a web browser using OnlyOffice.
next.Hessenbox can be accessed via web browser: next.Hessenbox (opens in new tab)
Students at TU Darmstadt receive the M365 Education A3 product package. This includes the applications from O365 as well as numerous cloud-based tools for communication, data exchange and work and team organisation. Well-known examples are OneDrive or Teams video conferencing. In order to use M365, you must register once.
The web conference tool Zoom is at currently used at TU Darmstadt to support digital teaching. Using the campus licence, students can not only participate in online courses, they can also actively organise their own online meetings with other students.
To activate your campus license for Zoom, please proceed as follows:
- Open https://tu-darmstadt.zoom.us/ and select the “Sign in” button.
- On the following page please click on “New at Zoom?” on “Sign up free”.
- To verify, enter your date of birth and click “Continue”.
- Now enter your e-mail address of TU Darmstadt: first name.surname@stud.tu-darmstadt.de.
- Finally, click on “Register”.
Students of TU Darmstadt can use various services of the universities represented in the German Research Network (DFN), such as the survey tool “DFNTerminplaner” or the file exchange platform “GigaMove” of RWTH Aachen University, which allows you to transfer files up to 100 GB in encrypted form.
Furthermore, some services at the TU use the authentication and authorisation infrastructure of DFN.
To use the external services, you only need to select your institution during registration and agree to the transfer of your data to the associated service.
